xpand your capabilities with citrix ® metaframe xp ™ for windows ®, feature release 2
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XPand your capabilities with Citrix® MetaFrame XP™
for Windows®, Feature Release 2.
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Today’s agenda.
Customer challenges.
Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows, Feature Release 2.
New features.
Feature Release 2 benefits you.
Packaging and pricing.
Customer challenges.
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Customer challenges.
Managing IT issues related to: Business access
Constantly changing IT environments
User mobility
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Customer challenges.
Business access. Centralized control of processes and locations
Fast, low-cost deployment, requiring fewer IT people to manage and maintain installation
Ability to quickly diagnose/fix problems remotely
Single-point control over applications and content
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Customer challenges.
Constantly changing IT environment. Connect different regions with same interface
Ensure security with role- and user-based authentication
Collaborate with employees, partners, suppliers and customers
Integration of all needed information
Safe repository for business-critical data
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Customer challenges.
User mobility. Personalized view of vital information, regardless
of device or location
Always-on, always-connected capabilities
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Varied, global, & mobile workforce
Customers, partners, & suppliers
Heterogeneous devices, infrastructure, platforms, applications and services
Business challenges.
Introducing Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows, Feature
Release 2.
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MetaFrame XP, Feature Release 2.
Feature Release 2 is a rich enhancement to the Citrix MetaFrame XP platform designed to expand your capabilities and add maximum value to your Windows 2000 investment.
Feature Release 2 enhances the comprehensive, single-point management tools, ensures end-to-end security, provides increased performance, delivers complete user mobility and improves collaboration and productivity.
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MetaFrame XP, Feature Release 2.
New features extend your ability to make the virtual workplace real so you can:
Ensure a more agile and resilient organization with the flexibility to adapt to change
Provide complete user mobility
Deliver total application access — anytime, anywhere, over any connection
Use the Net to enable success — without opening data to security risks
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MetaFrame XP, Feature Release 2.
Feature Release 2 benefits all Citrix customers.
Existing Citrix MetaFrame XP customers New features add significant value to the MetaFrame XP
platform
Existing Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 customers New features and functionality provide more reasons to migrate
Organizations evaluating MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 adds key performance and usability
enhancements to MetaFrame XP
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MetaFrame XP, Feature Release 2.
Windows 2000 Certification solidifies Citrix’s compatibility with Microsoft® server and desktop platforms.
Citrix MetaFrame XP components have been certified for use on:
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000 Professional
Feature Release 2 XPands your capabilities.
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XPand your capabilities.
Feature Release 2 expands your capabilities with:
Unparalleled manageability
Total Net leverage
Ultimate flexibility
End-to-End security
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XPand your management capabilities.
User Policies.
Enhanced Printer Management.
Enhanced System Monitoring and Analysis.
Enhanced Citrix Management Console.
Windows Installer Support.
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XPand your management capabilities.
User Policies. Gives administrators greater flexibility to apply
Citrix MetaFrame XP settings such as time zone, printing and shadowing to users and groups
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XPand your management capabilities.
Enhanced Printer Management. Improves administrators’ and users’ control of
printer configurations and print queue purging
Gives users greater flexibility and increased performance when printing to network printers
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Enhanced System Monitoring and Analysis. Expands administrators’ ability to diagnose server
issues by collecting long-term performance, session and application data for the entire Citrix MetaFrame server farm
Billing reports can be produced based on costs such as CPU usage or connection time
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XPand your management capabilities.
Enhanced Citrix Management Console. Makes MetaFrame XP administration even easier by
providing better integration with Active Directory®, pass-through authentication and user search and filtering
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Windows Installer Support. Makes Citrix MetaFrame XP and related components
easier and faster to deploy by leveraging Microsoft Windows Installer technology
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XPand your Net capabilities.
Citrix NFuse® Classic 1.7.
Enterprise Services for NFuse.
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XPand your Net capabilities.
Citrix NFuse Classic 1.7. Allows administrators to securely deploy Windows
applications via the Internet through a Web-based interface
Uses Windows workstationcredentials to automatically authenticate Citrix NFuse Classic users
Allows expired Windowspasswords to be updated via the Citrix NFuse Classic session
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XPand your Net capabilities.
Enterprise Services for NFuse. Enables seamless application integration across
the enterprise by providing a single location to access applications from multiple Citrix MetaFrame server farms
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XPand your flexibility capabilities.
Content Redirection.
User Collaboration.
Roaming User Reconnect.
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Content Redirection.
CLIENT
SERVER
Local App(Explorer, Word, IE)
Acrobat content located anywhere
Published Acrobat
From Client to Server
CLIENT
SERVERPublished App
(Outlook, Word) with URL Link
URL Content
Local App (IE or Player)
From Server to Client
Enables better utilization of local and server-based resources by giving administrators the freedom to specify whether local or server-based applications are used to open content, no matter where it is stored
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User Collaboration. Increases productivity and collaboration by allowing
users in different locations to simultaneously view and edit the same document
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Roaming User Reconnect. Makes mobile users more productive than ever
before — because they can reconnect to their disconnected sessions when they move between client devices
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XPand your security capabilities.
Citrix Secure Gateway 1.1.
Delegated Administration.
Smart Card Support.
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Citrix Secure Gateway 1.1. Provides simple and easy deployment of
applications across the Internet using standards-based encryption
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Delegated Administration. Allows specialized Citrix administrators
to be assigned to specific MetaFrame XP tasks without having access to all administrative functions
Aligns MetaFrame XP administration with IT organizational structure
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Smart Card Support. Simplifies authentication and provides secure
access to applications and data using smart card technologies
Feature Release 2benefits you.
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Feature Release 2 benefits you.
Unparalleled manageability to provide the tools to create a more agile and resilient enterprise, with the flexibility to adapt to change — without interruptions.
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Feature Release 2 benefits you.
Total Net leverage to bridge the worlds of Windows and Web and enable your users and administrators to get their jobs done — easily.
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Feature Release 2 benefits you.
Ultimate flexibility for application access to give your users true mobility and maximum productivity — anytime, anywhere, over any connection.
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Feature Release 2 benefits you.
End-to-end security to help keep your critical business information safe, so your organization can make the most of the Net — without the risk of security breaches.
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XPand your capabilities with Citrix MetaFrame XP, Feature Release 2 and make the virtual workplace real.
Packaging and pricing.
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Packaging.
New packaging combines MetaFrame XP, Feature Release 1 and Feature Release 2 into a single unit and contains:
MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 2 “Server” CD
MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 1 “Server” CD
“Components” CD (includes NFuse Classic 1.7, Citrix Secure Gateway 1.1, Enterprise Services for NFuse, and Citrix ICA® Clients 6.30)
Feature Release 2 includes everything in Feature Release 1.
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Packaging.
Feature Release 2 will support: Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Feature Release 2 will not support Windows NT® 4.0, Terminal Server Edition.
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Pricing.
Feature Release 2 will not be sold as a stand-alone shrink-wrap product.
Feature Release 2 will only be available as a benefit of Subscription Advantage.
Non-Subscription Advantage customers will be able to purchase Subscription Advantage as a stand-alone product for a limited time.
The price for stand-alone Subscription Advantage will be $150 per MetaFrame XP connection license regardless of MetaFrame XP family.
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For more information.
Connect to the Citrix website at www.citrix.com/metaframexp_fr2
Contact your Citrix representative
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Summary.
Citrix MetaFrame XP Helps solve your business challenges
Adds maximum value to your Windows investment
Is suitable for all current and potential Citrix customers
Expands your capabilities in four key areas:
• Unparalleled manageability
• Total Net leverage
• Ultimate flexibility
• End-to-End security
Makes the virtual workplace real