Citrix Systems MetaFrame Presentation Server - Manual (Page 41)

Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 41
Installing MetaFrame Presentation Server and Creating a
Server Farm
This section describes how to install MetaFrame Presentation Server on your
primary server, which is how you begin building a server farm. In this
demonstration, you install MetaFrame Presentation Server on the server on which
you installed your License Server, and begin to build a server farm called
DemoFarm.
In addition to the server farm, in this installation, you are also installing the Web
Interface, which allows administrators to integrate and publish applications into any
standard Web browser, without having to rewrite applications. On the client side,
users benefit from the ease of using a familiar Web browser as their central interface
to all published applications, as well as other application portal content, tools, and
resources. On the server side, MetaFrame Presentation Server provides a single
point of control, including the ability to publish applications from multiple server
farms to a single Web page.
The MetaFrame installer installs the Web Interface on the server and places a single
Web Interface site in the server’s Web document root directory. The Web site
provides a fully functional example of the Web Interface and can be used as is with
no additional configuration.
In preparation for creating DemoFarm
1. Using a domain account that is also a member of the local Administrators
group, log onto the computer on which you installed MetaFrame Access Suite
License Manager. This computer is your primary server.
2. On your primary server, ensure that you have installed and enabled:
• IIS and ASP.NET
• Terminal Services
You do this by adding the server roles of Application Server and
Terminal Server, respectively.
3. Ensure you know the case sensitive spelling of the name of your primary server
and the name of the domain to which it belongs.
4. Close all applications.
The next set of instructions describe how to install MetaFrame Presentation Server
on your primary server.