| SpeedScreen Browser Accelerations goal is to provide Local Browser experience and performance in a MetaFrame XP session. It was designed to give major performance improvements for users connecting to applications that embed JPEG and GIF images within web pages while reducing bandwidth usage and increasing user responsiveness when using Internet Explorer running on a MetaFrame XP server. SpeedScreen Brower Acceleration works by separating the JPEG and GIF image from the standard display (thinwire) virtual channel (VC) and redirecting them through their own VC. The following published applications are supported by SpeedScreen Brower Acceleration: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or newer Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and newer Microsoft Outlook XP/2002 SpeedScreen Brower Acceleration also requires the following: Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003. Activated XP FR3/SP3 License Published IE 5.5 or newer and Outlook 6 and above SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration enabled in the Management Console, as shown below. This can be configured on a farm and or per server basis. By default SpeedScreen Browser is enabled on all Feature Release 3 servers. Version 7.0 of the Win32 ICA Client 16bit color or above, is the only supported color resolution. The following defines how to configure SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration on a farm and per server basis.
The following defines how to configure SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration on a farm wide basis. 1. Open the Management Console for MetaFrame XP and right click on the Farm and click Properties. 2. Click to select SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration in the left pane 
3. By default, SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration is enabled so no action is necessary. If you would like to disable SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration then click to uncheck the Enable SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration checkbox. 4. Click OK when finished.
The following defines how to configure SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration on a per MetaFrame XP Server basis. 1. Open the Management Console for MetaFrame XP and expand the Servers node in the left pane, right click on the MetaFrame XP Server and click Properties. 2. Click to select SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration in the left pane 
3. By default, SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration is configured to use the Farms settings, as configured in the previous section. If you would like to configure the MetaFrame XP server different than the Farm then click to uncheck the Use farm settings for SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration checkbox and then click to uncheck the Enable SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration checkbox to disable this function or check it to enable it. 4. Click OK when finished.
On the SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration configuration page you find a screen that allows you to define if MetaFrame XP will allow or disable Macromedia Flash content. 
If you have plenty of bandwidth and CPU to spare then you can select the Allow button to enable Flash content in a MetaFrame XP session. If Flash is required I would recommend Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Windows System Resource Manager or AppSense Performance Manager 2.0, both will allow you to throttle CPU utilization per application. Select Do not allow if you want graphical images to download promptly on slower connections. Users will be presented with a blank picture until the graphic is fully downloaded. The advantage of this feature is that the server CPU and memory resources are reduced thus leaving end-user with a better experience. |