Citrix Farm and Server Settings moving to Group Policies
Did you know that Citrix is migrating several farm, server, and session policy settings to Microsoft Active Directory Group Policies? This integration will allow you to leverage some of the cool things Group Policy does - such as Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP), drag and drop servers between OU’s for certain types of settings, policy overrides, etc. Juliano Maldaner has written a nice article explaining this. Juliano states “An overwhelming majority of PS deployments use Group Policy in some capacity. Integrating PS settings into GPO is possible with MFCOM scripts, but far from ideal. Most use GPO for Windows and Application settings, and Citrix management consoles for PS configuration. Because all settings must be synchronized, we realized that the management experience would be greatly simplified if PS Session Policies and Server settings were within Group Policy Objects themselves!”
So, the natural questions might be - Does this work in a mixed-farm environment? And, if not, how do you migrate to the new GPO settings? Fortunately, Juliano answers these questions in a followup post. Basically, the answer is “no - this will not work in a mixed farm environment”. But, Citrix will provide a tool to export/import settings using XML.
Read more on how to migrate to Group Policies at the source…
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Jason Conger Blog » Blog Archive » Policies and the Impact on Presentation Server Environments Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
[…] There are strengths and weaknesses to each. Because of the growing complexity of environments many enterprise organizations will require the use of two or three different policy types in the environment. In many circumstances, Presentation Server policies are used in conjunction with Active Directory policies. Because there is no single correct policy design, there are numerous ways to achieve the same outcome - each bringing its own benefits and challenges. Regardless of the environment in place, understanding how policies work and interoperate is imperative to designing a scalable and easy to manage environments. Therefore, Citrix recently released a white paper titled “Design Consideration: How Policies Impact Presentation Server Environment“. In the white paper, Citrix explains the pros and cons of each policy type and where to use each. Keep in mind, however, that most Citrix policies are migrating to Active Directory… […]