New Install

[robros]

Can anyone point me in the correct direction.
I was handed the task of installing Metframe Xp onto another server.
The other servers in the farm were done by others before me, since I have never done this I want to do it right the first time.
Any suggests for instructions or links would be great


Thanks

Robert

Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Should be quite straightforward as long as you do the groundwork;

1) Ensure the server is at the same O/S build as the others (service packs, hotfixes, registry tweaks, etc).

2) Ensure the software build is at the level you need - if you're load-balancing apps, for example, they should be identically service-packed, etc.

2a) Better still than 1 and 2, clone one of your existing servers, if the hardware build is pretty much identical. Here's how:

http://www.citrixtools.com/documents/Cloning_a_MetaFrame_Server.pdf

You can, of course, clone the entire farm - a useful way of providing a quick and easy backup/restore strategy, as no data should ever be stored on a MetaFrame server (in an ideal world...)

http://www.workthin.com/DOC/cloning_an_existing_metaframe_xp_server+farm.doc

3) KNOW the location of the DataStore and the user required to access it (is it a direct connection to an external Database or an indirect connection to a MF server hosted Access DB?).

4) Should be pretty much a case of put the CD in and off you go, if you didn't go the cloning route. MetaFrame practically installs itself - but different levels require slightly different approaches - XP with no FR is slightly trickier than XP FR2 and beyond.

Remember the 6 "P"s;

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance...



Hope this helps