Windows NT/2000 Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Services and Citrix MetaFrame

Rating:
Summary: A Bible of Citrix Metaframe
Review: A great book. The author lists out the common problems facing by the users. I do not have any experience in Citrix. But my boss requires me to install and implement in short of time. I use the installation guide from the software. It is not useful. My server always down after install the software. All users are angry. After reading this book, I found that I miss a lot of things such as IE4 installation problems, tunning and etc. So I think if you want to implement Citrix successful, read this book firetly.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book
Review: At first I looked for 'step by step' instructions to many TSE operations and found that there were not that many. This was OK. After reading the book cover to cover I was amazed at the clarity of the concepts concerning Metaframe and Terminal Server. This book gave me about a 30% performance and management increase in my Terminal Server Environment. A must have.

Rating:
Summary: Just amazing
Review: Great book to get started as well as learning more in-depth about thin client computing.

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Book!
Review: Having just gone through the process of loading Citrix XP this book made life a million times easier.(The book appears to me more orientated towards earlier versions than the one I loaded but this caused no problems at all)
I had had very little experience with Citrix beforehand but this book prepared me for the install and fine tuning of Citrix once installed...Take a bow Mr Mathers - very well written and well layed out

Rating:
Summary: THE book for Thin Client admins.
Review: I bought his first edition of this book and practically used it as an installation manual and admin. manual. It helped in our justification and planning as well. His last book was so good, I WAITED for this to come out. When it did, and no stores around here had it, I traveled 1 hr. to a store that did have it at about 10pm. That's how much this book has helped us out here. I'm 3/4 finished w/ this edition and it's just as good. VERY detailed and great advice and tips from planning to a SECURE server setup. I like a book that gives personal opinions and perspectives. If you are an admin in this field, this is probably the ONLY book you'll need!!

Rating:
Summary: This book is awesome!!
Review: I currently changed jobs and inherited a MetaFrame server farm with no MetaFrame experience. I needed a good reference for administration and optimization. This book does that and much more! The author covers the product in great detail and lists resources external to the book for further research. If you don't own this book you should!! I highly recommend this book to anyone using MetaFrame on W2K or NT4.0.

Rating:
Summary: Wow
Review: I don't think there's a single page in this book not packed with valuable information. I found this book near-perfect for someone experienced in the NT world but not in Citrix/TS. After finishing reading nearly the entire book in a single pass, I keep going back to it on a daily basis for reference. Few books can do that and even fewer on such a specialized area. I wish Todd would write a sequel covering application serving beyond the set up (he started doing so towards the end of this book). This guy can definitely write in a clear way. For example, reading his special tips after the discussion of a topic I felt as if he could read my mind and sure enough, there was the tip elaborating on a specific detail. Excellent.

Rating:
Summary: Windows NT/2000 Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal
Review: I found the book very well organized with valuable comparisons of different products and configurations. It appears to cover all subjects pertaining to Thin Client computing better than any other book that I have been able to find. It is also very helpful the way different implementations are catagorized, e.g.ICA, NT 4.0 TSE from Windows 2000. Most of the books that I have looked at so far do a poor job of distinguishing between the different implementations of TS while covering a certain topic.

Rating:
Summary: This will become THE bible on Metaframe & Win2k Terminal Svc
Review: I have been Managing a large Citrix environment for years and this is, by far, the best reference that I have read. There is no doubt that the author has actually used the product. It's not just a rehash of Citrix documentation. it is valuable information on necessary registry changes and policies that you need to use to make Metaframe the product it was intended to be. If you have used Metaframe you will love this book as a reference. If you have never used Metaframe you will learn how to proceed from the installation process all the way to some pretty advanced management techniques. This book is a must have for any Metaframe or Win2k Terminal Services administrator.

Rating:
Summary: Buy it First
Review: If you are new to this world, then you should buy this book. If you are somehow experienced, re consider it after you go through it. Not a single page can be read once. Lots of info. Really a "must have" in this subject. Great job Todd!!