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ICA session monitoring. Performance counters let you use Windows Performance Monitor to observe ICA communication, including bandwidth and compression for sessions, servers, and individual virtual channels, and latency in ICA sessions.
Performance monitoring can provide valuable information about utilization of network bandwidth and help determine if a bottleneck exists. (Available in Enterprise edition.)
Delegated administration. Citrix administrators can delegate to IT staff areas of server administration and farm management. Administrators can assign specialized staff members to perform specific farm management tasks, such as managing printers, published applications, or user policies. Members of the enterprise IT staff can carry out their assigned tasks without being granted full access to all areas of farm management. This release enhances the level of administration you can delegate. You can now create policies to apply settings based on users or user groups, server groups, IP addresses, or client names.
Smart card support. You can use smart cards with MetaFrame Presentation Server, supported clients, and the Web Interface to provide secure access to applications and data. Using smart cards simplifies the authentication process while enhancing logon security. MetaFrame Presentation Server supports smart card authentication to published applications, as well as to “smart card enabled” applications such as Microsoft Outlook.
Content redirection. Administrators can specify whether local or remote applications are used to open content, allowing for the appropriate application to be launched to better meet the needs of the user. With Content redirection, you gain flexibility when considering application installation and content storage locations.
Use Content redirection to redirect application launching from:
•Client to server. Content, such as a file attached to an email message, that the user encounters when running a local application is opened with an application published on the server. This capability is supported with the Win32 Program Neighborhood Agent, the Macintosh client, and the WinCE client.
•Server to client. URL links that the user encounters when running a session are opened using the locally installed Web browser. This capability is supported with the Win32 clients and the Linux client.
Policies. With policies, you can apply to specific users or user groups selected server settings, such as shadowing permission settings, printer autocreation settings, and client device mapping settings. Using policies, you can tailor your environment at the user level. User policy settings override all other MetaFrame Presentation Server and Terminal Services settings.