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Title: Citrix MetaFrame For Windows Server 2003: The Official Guide by Steve Kaplan, Tim Reeser, Alan Wood, Franny Kelly ISBN: 0-07-219566-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: MetaFrame Access Suite for Windows Server 2003
Comment: Finally a book that not only addresses the technical issues a Citrix administrator needs, but also the often times forgotten business issues that justify why any technology should be implemented. These guys do a great job addressing the paradigm change a system administrator must understand in order to correctly design, implement, administer and troubleshoot a MetaFrame environment.

Rating: 5
Summary: Author Rebuttal
Comment: Seven expert technical reviewers from VectorESP, ECC, Osborne, and Citrix reviewed the Chapter 12 content, and we are very confident in its technical accuracy and the separation between the UNIX and Windows content. On the Datastor options, we discussed all available options (including Oracle, MSDE, and DB2) on page 359, but we chose to provide a step-by-step guide only for SQL, since Citrix claims that over 80% of the datastores in the field today are on SQL. The advantage of picking only one of the choices for a step-by-step in-depth discussion was that this allowed readers a true in-depth look, rather than just a brush by look that could have been provided if we tried to cover all the choices. Additionally, we discussed the datastor design options in depth in the design chapters of the book, which outline a very rigorous and strict approach to all aspects of the solution.
As future reviews will attest to, we are very confident that this book is unique and much more in depth than the other guides when it comes to networking, security, and disaster recovery aspects of Server-Based Computing.

Rating: 1
Summary: Sorry, but I didn't like it at all
Comment: The announcement of this new book caused me a lot of excitement. However, I became very disappointed when I started to read it.

Even though it has a lot of pages, it is not an in-deep guide. It talks a lot about general stuff. In my opinion it lacks some more advanced chapters and a most rigorous and strict approach.

For instance, chapter 12 is about the "server configuration". The windows and UNIX stuff have got all mixed up. So, in my opinion, it is not good enough for Windows administrators nor for UNIX administrators. In the same chapter, when talking about how to create the IMA Data Store, it mentions only SQL Server (there are also Access, MSDE, Oracle and DB2!!!)

I'm sorry to say that I would recommend, for instance, any book by Brian Madden rather than this one.

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