Windows 2003 TS

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Windows 2003 TS

• New GPOs, gadgets, utilities, and tools

Ron Oglesby Senior Technical Architect,
RapidApp www.theCitrixguy.com Citrix_guy_at_hotmail.c
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Lots of New Stuff!!!!

• GPOs
• Terminal Services WMI provider
• Citrix Advanced Concepts Guide to be printed book
• Remote Desktop Users
• Flex Profile Kit 2.0
• AllInOne and True Control Templates
• MFCOM (If your not using it you should be)
• A few other cool items

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2003 TS GPOs

• Whats available?
• License Server security settings
• Connection settings for TS
• Profile and Home Dir settings
• Keep Alive / Reconnection settings
• Remote control rules
• Virtual channel settings
• Session directory settings
• And more

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Remote Desktop Users

• MPS Install makes this dummie proof, this is
  not always the most secure
• Simple script can add users to all of these local
  groups (even base it on MFCOM to fix after the
  farm build)

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Advanced Concepts Guide as a Book?

• Published By Citrix?
• Rumors..
• Authors/Editors to include Steve Kaplan?
• Will include more business stuff than current
  PDF format
• No idea on cost, currently this is downloadable
  free

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Terminal Services WMI
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Terminal Services WMI cont.

• What can I now do with scripts?
• Configure License Servers
• Disable and enable connections
• Edit Connection properties
• Virtual Channel Settings
• Settings for device mapping
• Set Home Dir and profile paths
• Set Session time zone policies
• And More

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Sample WMI Script
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MFCOM, What can it do?

• Anything you can do in the CMC!
• Common task examples
• Server offline/online from Doug Brown (needs a
  little more logic)

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MFCOM (continued)

• Creating unique Idle timeouts for applications
  (out of the box tools)

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MFCOM (continued)

• Published app report (list of apps and users and
  groups assigned to them)
• Adding/removing entire published apps
• Changing pub app properties (groups?)
• Changing or adding/removing Driver Mapping list
• Use it to enumerate ALL Citrix servers without
  maintaining static text files for other scripts
• Any thing you want to do!

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MFCOM Sample
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New stuff from Jeroen

• Flex Profile Kit 2.0
• Improved performance over previous version and
  better documentation
• AllinOne/TrueControl ADM templates
• Tons of new updates including
• TSConSec.exe for connection security
• ADM to CSV to document settings
• Tons of ICA and RDP settings
• Integrates with the GPMC

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Other Cool Tools/Apps

• Acro Software PDF Printers or PDF 995
• Infostance AppliDis Seamless Windows Client (Free
  for 5 users)
• WTSPortal
• LinRDP
• WTS Gateway Pro

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Other Cool Tools/Apps, cont.

• IPerf from http//dast.nlanr.net/ (network)
• Blat for Windows (mail from CMD line)
• UPHClean (unload those profiles)
• Anything Doug Brown
• LanGuard Scanner 2
• AD Check from NetIQ

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Takk for nå
Thank you
Questions?

• All presentations will be available on Brian
  Maddens Site after the conference at
  www.brianmadden.com