Automating the Deployment and Image Management of a Citrix Hosted Client Environment

Overview

This paper describes how to use IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager to construct rapid deployment images for provisioning a Citrix-based hosted client infrastructure including Aurema ARMTech for Citrix, Softricity SoftGrid client, and the Cygwin shell. This paper includes detailed steps to configure Microsoft's roaming user profiles and folder redirection to manage user data, how to use Citrix MetaFrame Presentation server to publish a desktop and how to create an ICA connection from a Neoware thin client to a Citrix MetaFrame publication. In addition, methods for enhancing the management of this solution architecture via leveraging the capabilities of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager are explored.