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8. Which types of persistent data are contained in the Presentation Server Farm Data Store?
A: Printer Drivers and mappings
Published Applications configurations
Presentation Server Administrator Accounts
9. What is the purpose of the Data Store and What is contained in the Data Store database?
A: The Data Store is a database that stores all the configuration information needed by the Citrix
Farm. Any time you make configuration changes to MetaFrame Server, the changes are recorded
in the Data Store. In this respect, if you are adding a new MetaFrame Server to spread the user
load of an application, this new server can get all the information by tapping into the Data Store.
The information stored in the Data Store includes :
Published Application, Server Configuration, User Configuration and Print Environment. This
thus means all persistent data for all servers in a particular farm.
13. Which component manages the servers running Presentation by integrating with third-party
management consoles such as HP Open View?
A: Network Manager
Explanation : Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is known and widely used by
various organizations for the purposes of monitoring their systems. Companies can use third-
party tools such Microsoft Operations Management (MOM), HP Open View, or various other
tools to monitor and manage their servers. In addition, if you are using Enterprise Edition of
MetaFrame, you can use Citrix Network Manager as an SNMP agent to gather farmwide
performance monitoring and management information.
14. What are two technical considerations for deciding to create more than one farm in a
Presentation Server environment?
A: The Geographical Location of the servers and The type of network connection between the
servers.
15. An administrator must consider which three factors when deciding which type of database to
use in a farm?
A: Number of Users
Number of Applications
Number of servers running Presentation Server
25. Why is ICA that much faster than RDP? technological differences
26. Why does a new desktop get a "dial-up or network problems...” when the OS is win2k pro, or
XP pro.
27. Why does the spooler service sometimes crash, after staring a print job?
29. Why does single sign-on not work, when using NFuse or WI?
30. Can you describe your best hardware configuration for a 35 to 40 user server?
31. How do you fight latency, and when is it needed? (ping times)
32. How does the raid controller need to be set on a terminal server?
33. Why does my CSG connection not work, while using a 56 bits version cert?
34. How do you configure a Cisco router TCP/IP stack for optimal citrix traffic?
36. What are the differences between the Win2k license server and Win2k3?
37. Differences in GPO's between the 2 OS's. I also like to find out how they troubleshoot citrix
issues. What sites do they use?
38. After installing the new Citrix Client my Icons are Upside Down. What Gives?
A: This problem has been traced back to two possible solutions involving the video drivers.
The following seemed to have resolved the problem.
First in Win9.x clients (where this has been a frequent issue)try decreasing the graphics
acceleration setting in Control Panel\System\Performance.
If this does not work try to obtain the latest video drivers from the cards manufacturer for the
graphics adapter and installing them.
39. How do I disable floppy drive access during a Citrix Session Logon?
A: Run regedt32.exe
Edit the key listed below:
“ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogin\Parse”
Autoexec REG_SZ=1
Change the value from 1 to 0
Ensure that the Windows Explorer view is set to a view different than "Details"
40. I have a program that will only work if it is install mode any ideas?
A: Try adding the directory the program is in to the default path
by going into the system control panel applet and adding it under the
environment variables.
Or copy out the ini and dll file of the program out to each users windows/system32 folder in their
home directory.
Some programs have a temp variable in their ini files. You may need to edit the location of the
temp variable to point to the users home temp directory instead of the NT/Temp directory
location. This should resolve the problem.
41. How do I Disable Print Drivers from Automatically Updating the DataStore?
A: When a new printer or printer driver was installed on a MetaFrame server, a substantial
amount of traffic (in the order of 8 to 10MB per second) occurred between the IMA Service and
the data store the IMA Service was using. This occurred because the IMA Service needed to
update the Management Console for MetaFrame XP with the information about the new printer
or printer driver, which caused the huge amount of network traffic.
To resolve this problem, navigate to the following registry key and change the value of
fDisablePrinterWorkerThread to 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMAPrinter
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: fDisablePrinterWorkerThread = 1
After you make this change to the registry, restart the IMA Service for the change to take effect.
NOTE: When the registry switch is set to 1, the IMA Service does not automatically update
printer or
printer driver information to the Management Console. You need to update this information
manually. To do this, click Printer Management in the left panel of the Management Console and
then double-click Update Printer and Driver.
This setting is valid with: (or their equivalents)
MetaFrame XP Feature Release 3 for Windows 2000 and hotfix XE103W2K057
MetaFrame XP Service Pack 2 for TSE 4.0 and hotfix XE102T024.
Both MetaFrame XP Feature Release 3 for Windows 2000 & MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0
for Windows 2000
and 2003 contain the code need for the registry change.
Ensure the latest MfPrintSs.dll is installed on the server.
NOTE:
If you’re interviewing, you want somebody who has a good solid overall understanding of Citrix
and how it fits into the organization etc.
So as well as those questions, I'd be asking them how they would bring new sites online. I'd want
them to know how web interface and CSG work and to tell me the process when users connect
using these products to launch their apps.
I would tell them about your setup and ask them how you could improve it.
Also you will want to know what they know about Terminal Services. I'm amazed at how many
questions here get asked about the TS license server. Most seem to not even know it needs to be
loaded.
42. How do I remove a dead server from the Citrix Management Console?
A: Run DSVERIFY SERVERS /CLEAN /FORCE to optimize the Data Store.
DSVerify can be run rom any server in the farm.
Dsverify is available here.
Metaframe Feature Release 3 has a new command line tool called DSCHECK works in a similar
way:
DSCHECK /CLEAN
43. What is relay Program Neighborhood The user interface for the Program Neighborhood
Client that
lets users view the published applications they are authorized to use in the
server farm. Program Neighborhood allows access to application sets and
custom ICA connections.
44. What is relay Program Neighborhood Agent The Program Neighborhood Agent allows you
to
deliver published applications directly to users’ desktops so users can access
links to published applications with or without a Web browser. With the
Program Neighborhood Agent, links to published applications appear in the
Start menu, on the Windows desktop, or in the Windows notification area.
Remote applications are integrated into the desktop and appear to the user as
local applications. You must use the Web Interface for MetaFrame
Presentation Server to use the Program Neighborhood Agent.
45. What is relay published application An application installed on a server or server farm that is
configured for multiuser access from MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients.
With Load Manager, you can manage the load for published applications
among servers in the farm. With Program Neighborhood and the Web
Interface, you can push a published application to your users’ client desktops.
46 What is relay listening port ? The TCP port on a computer running MetaFrame Presentation
Server that the Citrix SSL Relay monitors for data from a Web server.
What is seamless window One of the settings you can specify for the window size property of
a published application. If a published application runs in a seamless window,
the user can take advantage of all the client platform’s window management
features, such as resizing, minimizing, and so forth.
48 What is server A server on which MetaFrame Presentation Server software is running. You
can publish applications, content, and desktops for remote access by clients on
these servers.
What is server farm A group of computers running MetaFrame Presentation Server and
managed as a single entity, with some form of physical connection between
servers and a database used for the farm’s data store.
49. What is session ID A unique identifier for a specific client session on a specific computer
running MetaFrame Presentation Server.
51. What is Citrix XML Service A Windows service that provides an HTTP interface to the ICA
browser. It uses TCP packets instead of UDP, which allows connections to
work across most firewalls. The default port for the Citrix XML Service is 80.
52. What is shadowing A feature that enables an authorized user to remotely join or take control
of another user’s client session for diagnosis, training, or technical support.
What is SpeedScreen Latency Reduction A combination of technologies implemented in ICA
that decreases bandwidth consumption and total packets transmitted, resulting
in reduced latency and consistent performance regardless of network
connection.
57. What is local host cache A local subset of the server farm data store information. This file is
present on all computers running MetaFrame Presentation Server. See also
data store.
ICA file A text file (with the extension ica) containing information about a published
application. ICA files are written in Windows ini file format and organize
published application information in a standard way that MetaFrame
Presentation Server Clients can interpret. When a client receives an ICA file, it
initializes a session running the application on the server specified in the file.
ICA protocol The protocol that MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients use to format
user input (keystrokes, mouse clicks, and so forth) and address it to servers for
processing. Servers use the ICA protocol to format application output (display,
audio, and so forth) and return it to the client device.