| As mentioned, the goal of any successful implementation is to make life as easy on the end-users as possible and if that eases the administration roll in the process then what a bonus. To accomplish easing the process for upgrading the ICA clients, Citrix has created the ICA Client Update Configuration Utility that enables you to schedule the download and installation of the latest ICA Client software from MetaFrame XP servers to a wide range of ICA client devices. The ICA Client Distribution wizard places copies of ICA Clients in the database used by Client. The following sections describe how to mange ICA Clients through the ICA Client Update Configuration Utility.
With a product or feature release, Citrix also releases a Clients CD. It gives you the ability to import all the ICA clients in to the ICA client database through the Citrix ICA Client Distribution Wizard. As of the date of this publication, the ICA Client CD image is NOT up to date but still very useful. I would recommend installing all the ICA Clients from the CD and then updating newer clients separately, as documented in the following section. The latest image of all the ICA Clients can be downloaded from: http://www.citrix.com/download/bin/download.asp Note: The ICA Client Distribution wizard also installs the pass-through ICA Win32 Client on the server. The following details how to update the ICA Client database from a MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 2 Component CD. 1. Insert the MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 2 Components CD. 2. Click Start click Programs click Citrix click MetaFrameXP click ICA Client Distribution Wizard 3. Click Next 
4. Click Next to continue and copy the 6.30 clients from the CD-ROM drive. 
5. Select the Typical radio button and click Next 
5. Click Finish 
You have now successfully updated the ICA Client database with the latest clients. Now you will want to configure the ICA Clients that you will be updating and disable the rest.
When Citrix releases updates to clients that are newer than the ones located on the Components CD then you will need to download them from http://www.citrix.com/download and import them in to the ICA client database. The following details how to update the client database: 1. Download the latest ICA client from http://www.citrix.com/download/ica_clients.asp. 2. Extract the ICA Client to you local C: drive. You can use a program like WinZip to extract the .exe version of the chosen client. 3. Click Start Programs Citrix MetaFrameXP ICA Client Update Configuration 4. Click Client New 
5. Browse and select the update.ini file from the ICA client you extracted in step 2. Click Next 
6. Select the desired configurations and click Next. 
7. Click Next. 
8. Click the Enabled check box in order to enable the new ICA Client software. Click Finish 
The following details how to configure how the ICA Client Update Configuration Utility deals with client updates. 1. Right Click on the ICA Client that you want to configure and click Properties. 
2. Check or Uncheck the Update to this version checkbox in order to enable the ICA clients. Note: If you will not be supporting a particular client version then I suggest you disable it to cut down on the amount of clients that will be parsed during the logon process. This will speed up the login process. 
3. The Update Options tab gives you the ability to specify how the ICA client will be installed. Select the desired configuration and click OK. 
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