| With User Policies, you can apply select MetaFrame settings, including shadowing permission settings, printer autocreation settings, and client device mapping settings, to specific users or user groups. Using policies, you can tailor your environment at the user / group level. Policy rules have three states: Rule Enabled, Rule Disabled, or Rule Not Configured. 
By default, not all rules are configured. All unconfigured rules are ignored when users log on to the MetaFrame server. I highly recommend reducing the amount of rules set to Rule Not Configured to reduce to need to process the policy and to speed up the logon time. Keep with the following when creating a new Citrix Policy: Decide the purpose for the Citrix policy Why are you creating the policy and who will it affect. An example of a policy would be to assign them common settings specific to their function, connection type or geographic location. Create the policy - You will need to define a name for the policy, assign user(s) / group(s) to the policy and set the rules that will be the basis of the policy. 
Prioritize or rank your policies In order to over come user(s) / groups(s) that are members of multiple policies you will need to configure policy priority. I highly recommend creating an Administrator policy the disables all policy and gives full control to a select group of Citrix administrators to the top of the policy list to prevent from locking yourself out. In order to view the priory of Citrix Policies you set the consoles view mode to Details. Select Details on the View menu Click the Priority section of the title bar to sort by priority. 
Important! User Policy settings override all other MetaFrame XP and Terminal Services settings. However, if you disable functionality in Citrix Connection Configuration, you cannot enable the functionality by creating user policies.
The following details how to create Citrix User Policies. 1. Open the Citrix Management Console, right click on the Policies section and click Create Policy 
2. Enter a name for the new policy and click OK. 
3. Adjust the policy priority by clicking up or down priory buttons located on the toolbar. 
You have now sucessfully created a Citrix Policy and are ready to configure the rules and assign user(s) / group(s) to it.
The following details how to configure policy rules. 1. Double click on a Citrix Policy to open the policy properties. 
2. Click the policies that the rules you would like to set and click OK when finished. 
You have now successfully configured a Citrix Policy and are ready to assign the Policy to user(s) / group(s). The following details how to assign a policy to user or groups. 1. Right click on the policy you would like to assign user and or group to and click Assign Users. 
2. Select the User(s) / Groups(s) you would like to assign to the policy and click OK. I highly recommend sticking with group to simply policy management. However if you need to assign a user then you will need to check the Show users checkbox. 
The Citrix policy will now be assigned to the designated user(s) / group(s) next time they login to the MetaFrame farm. |