Windows NT Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame

By Todd W. Mathers and Shawn P. Genoway

The authors provide high end technical information on hot new thin-client technologies: Windows Based Terminal Server and Citrix technologies. These pages provide network designers and programmers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578700655
• ISBN13: 9781578700653
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Macmillan Technical Pub
• Length: 489 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 1.0" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

GREAT FOR STARTES

Great place to learn the basics and capabilities of TSE and Metaframe

Good Introduction

This book is excellent as an introduction to what Metaframe can do. Buy this book if you're thinking about installing it. Don't buy it if you already have a Metaframe installation; this book is not a reference guide.

Excellent Reference Book

This book has not only helped me understand Terminal Server, but has also become a familiar reference for me to turn to time and time again. I would suggest this book to the TS beginner to be used in conjunction with TS/Metaframe class materials. If you are familiar with Citrix then you will still benefit from this book because it refers you to some of the similarities and differences between Citrix and Terminal Server. Finally, this book provides excellent instructions for setting up user profiles and policies which can be a nightmare if you are unfamiliar with this aspect of the TS technology.

Detailed and expert "Thin Client" deployment information.

Windows NT Thin Client Solutions is a ground breaking look at an emerging and increasingly valid technology. This technology addresses many enterprise concerns regarding application deployment issues and zero administration initiatives. This book provides a complete strategy for implementing this "Thin Client" technology. Over the past three years the "Thin Client" approach has matured into a viable NT based enterprise solution for deploying client/server and other business applications, (email, web browsers, office suites, emulators), to both LAN based and remote users.Covered in this text are planning, deployment and administrative insights that are based on extensive and intimate experience. Previously, this type of information could only be acquired through an often time consuming trial and error approach, on an individual, site specific basis.As a consultant of this technology for over two years and 70 plus production installations, I recognize the presentation of this text as an insightful step by step project overview, (with certain details truely sight specific). The supplemental information, which includes many Author's Note sections, other tips, and the invaluable appendix sections, are important time saving resources that will be often referrenced.

Well written and very comprehensive.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking at implementing a thin client solution. I am reseller of the thin client product and have made this book required reading not only for my technicians but sales personnel as well. I found that the overview section in very comprehensive in describing the concept behind thin client technology. I have also purchased three extra copies of this book for clients who are considering the use of this technology in their environment. By do so I find that the sales education time for the client is significantly reduced and the client feels they have a better understanding of the individual components.