Citrix Systems MetaFrame Presentation Server manual Policies, Delegated Administration

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Policies

You can now create policies to apply connection settings based on server groups, IP addresses, and client names—in addition to users or user groups as in earlier releases. New policy rules give you broader control over bandwidth limits, zone connection preferences, audio options, and printing.

You can use new policy rules to do such things as:

•Direct user connections to a local zone and set failover options to other zones

•Route print jobs directly from the server to the printer rather than through the client device

•Control bandwidth limits for sessions

•Control audio sound quality used by client devices

The examples cited above include only a few of the new capabilities provided with connection policies.

Delegated Administration

With delegated administration, you can restrict an administrator’s permissions to perform certain tasks to select servers and applications. For example, you can:

1.Create two separate “session administrator” accounts.

2.Give one account permissions to manage user sessions on servers in California.

3.Give the other account permissions to manage user sessions on servers in Maine.

Bi-directional Audio Support

MetaFrame Presentation Server now supports client-side microphone input. This allows you to publish dictation software for use in client sessions. Using local microphones, including a number of Philips SpeechMike speech processing devices, users can record dictations with applications running on the server.

For example, a user away from the office can establish a client session to record notes using a laptop. Later in the day the user can retrieve the notes for review or transcription from the desktop device back at the office.