How to use Laptops in a Citrix WAN environment?

[StephenRoach]

Hi
I am hoping that somebody has some of experience of best practices of what to do with existing laptop/notebook users when moving the rest of their department over to Citrix.

Info
We are migrating to Citrix for a number of users, the set up will be a centralised Citrix farm which will access data from a centralised SAN. This will sit on a 2000 domain.
Non of the users are actually based at this centralised site so everything will be accessed over 128Mb and above frame links.
The problem is a laptop user currently can load data on to their laptop to enable them to work offline in a home or client environment. This is done from a local server at present but all local servers are to be removed to be replaced with centralised access. With the data being centralised and the comms being of a poor(ish) standard I was wondering if anybody has come across this problem before and how it was got around.
Thanks in advance
Steve

 

[Kickhead]

As long as you have an IP route to your Citrix server, you're in good shape. As a laptop moves to different locations in your WAN, you'll have to have something in place to make it easy for the user to change their settings so they can communicate with the "home" server no matter where they are.

I would recommend running DHCP in each remote office to handle roaming users.

If you want to allow home users to connect over the web, you'll need to allow traffic on TCP port 1494 on your firewall coming in from the Internet. It is up to you to make sure this is done securely, using Citrix Secure Gateway, NFuse or some type of VPN.

Hope this helps and is what you were looking for.