1.8 vs XP

[Sman12]

Hello,

I am starting a new job soon which is currently using Metaframe 1.8, but is upgrading to XP in about 6 months. I don't have much experience with Citrix and wanted to buy a book to get a heads up on things beforehand. My question is will buying an XP book provide enough info to work with 1.8, or would buying a 1.8 book provide enough info on XP, or are they two different animals and I should buy a book on each? Thank you for any help anyone can provide. If you have any recommendations on informative books to purchase I'd appreciate that too.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I think, if you're new to Citrix, the free, downloadable book at

http://www.metaframebook.com

is highly recommended - even if it is only up to chapter 4 so far!

The UI of the XP CMC really is a different beast, although the old Admin tool is still there, so you'd need to learn both, if you're going to work with both. The best book by miles on MetaFrame anywhere is

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578702399/ref=pd_sim_books/103-9215037-8882239

Whatever you can learn about the Terminal Services O/S you are using would also be useful - check out

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...742546/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-9215037-8882239,

for NT4 TSE - although the Terminal Services Reference stuff is still valid. It's getting harder to find a copy, however.

And for Windows 2000;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...0215/reader/1/103-9215037-8882239#reader-link

- even though this doesn't go in-depth into Terminal Services like the NT4 TSE book above, it's proved indispensible to me for understanding the underlying O/S (or, at least, finding answers to hard questions!)

For a detailed study of MetaFrame XP;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971151008/ref=pd_sim_books/103-9215037-8882239

And for the CCA;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782140572/ref=pd_sim_books/103-9215037-8882239

Hope this helps CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk