Does your business have staff working on the road, at home or from branch offices?
Yes? Then Citrix Access Essentials can help.
Citrix Access Essentials for Windows Server 2003 will give your staff, customers or suppliers controlled secure access to critical business applications and information from wherever whenever they are working, with the IT resources you already have, at a price you can afford.
Citrix Access Essentials 2.0 New Features and Benefits
Citrix Access Essentials is the easiest, most cost-effective, off-the-shelf software enabling 5 to 75 persons to remotely use corporate Windows programs conveniently and securely over the Web. Unlike inferior alternatives, it performs well across slow connections, strict network firewalls and non-Windows computers without needing to rewrite applications upgrade PCs or increase bandwidth. Its simple role-based rules control which central resources individuals see and where they store and print sensitive information. Newly arriving Internet and internal LAN users are automatically load-balanced among available application servers, bypassing any failed or offline machines. The product comes with or without Microsoft Terminal Server Client Access Licenses (TS CALS)
What's New in Version 2.0
Citrix Access Essentials 2.0 introduces numerous enhancements to what is already a comprehensive remote access solution. Many of the new features comprise higher levels of software intelligence to automate administrative tasks, particularly as the environment expands beyond a single server. They add up to a richer, more robust access experience with fewer interruptions for the entire organisation... and less work for the system administrator.
One or More Servers
Access Essentials can now grow in place from one or two or more machines, constituting a centrally managed and co-located server group. In multi-server configurations, one server is designated as the "master server". It is the central point for administration using the Quick Start tool. The master makes load balancing decisions as well as runs user applications. There can be any number of "support servers" whose primary responsibility is to run applications and store files. Support servers may take over for a master server should it fail or be taken down for maintenance. Single server deployments continue to be supported and benefit from most of the other features described in this section.
Two Modes: Basic and Advanced
Access Essentials can be operated in either basic or advanced mode. Basic mode keeps it simple for single server deployments. Advanced mode turns on multi-server features such as load balancing, profiles management, and master server failover. A new wizard swiftly guides administrators through the expansion from a single user to a multi-server configuration.
New Features in Citrix Access Essentials 2.0
Automatic load balancing across 2 or more servers
Profiles automatically follow users across servers
Auto-failover "master server" to designated "support server"
Server Maintenance mode
DMZ server for Stronger Internet Security
Group-wide application publishing
Group-wide print driver replication
Session Reliability
Support installation on Domain Controller & Workgroup server
Intergration with Web Interface for Sharepoint (WISP)
Centralised monitoring and alerting across multi-server group
Program Neighbourhood agent (PN) support
Intuitive Session management tool
License Monitoring and Revocation tool
Restricted Privileges for Delegated Administrators
Wizard to go from single server to multi-server deployment
Upgrades from prior versions of Access Essentials
Upgrade for customers with existing Terminal Services CALs
