| 1. Design Phase Overview D&D Consulting has been engaged to design and assist in deploying the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for DABCC.COM. D&D Consulting will follow a methodical approach to design while keeping with achieving the project vision. Simplicity is the best investment. Simple structures are easier to explain, maintain and debug than complex ones. Every environment created will require some maintenance over its lifetime. When one creates a structure without well-defined reasons, it will end up costing more than any value it may add. Therefore, D & D Consulting will carefully analyze and justify the structure required before beginning. Your business and your organization will always change. There are normal changes that occur within any organization such as changing applications requirements or enterprise-wide reorganizations that will affect DABCC.COMs MetaFrame Access Suite architecture. When designing the architecture D & D Consulting will consider how these potential changes will affect end-user and administrators interaction with the environment D & D Consulting will make sure the design is general and flexible enough to accommodate constant and significant change. Aim for the ideal design. During the design and planning phase D & D Consulting will aim for the ideal structure even if it does not reflect the current architecture plan. It will be useful and practical to understand what would be ideal, even if it were not currently attainable. The main technology areas covered in this document includes: Server Design q Hardware Requirements q Operating Systems Requirements MetaFrame Access Suite Design q MetaFrame XP Architecture o MetaFrame XP Farm Design o MetaFrame XP Zone Design o MetaFrame XP Data Collector Design o MetaFrame XP Data Store Design o MetaFrame XP Load Management Design o Applications o MetaFrame Conferencing Manager Design o MetaFrame XP Printing Design q Application Delivery o MetaFrame XP Web Interface Design o MetaFrame Secure Access Manager Design o MetaFrame XP ICA Client Design q Security Architecture o Secure Gateway for MetaFrame Design o MetaFrame Password Manager Design Infrastructure Design q File Storage q Logon Scripts q Infrastructure Modifications Below is a diagram of the proposed native MetaFrame XP architecture: 
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