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Access Essentials 2.0

Tuesday, 24 April 2007 by Michel Roth

Citrix Access Essentials 2.0 is the next version of the Citrix Access Essentials 2.0 line of products. One of the limitations of Citrix Access Essentials 1.0 was that it could not be installed on a Domain Controller. This makes perfect sense from a security perspective but not from the I'm-a-small-business-and-I-only-have-one-server-didn't-you-say-you-were-a-Citrix-SMB-product perspective. That's why Citrix in version 2.0, almost reluctantly, allows for installation on a Domain Controller. The Citrix Access Essentials blog reports:

"With Access Essentials 2.0, we support installation on a Domain Controller. This is something that used to be possible with Presentation Server some time ago. We've made it possible again for Access Essentials 2.0, with some caveats, and some serious health warnings...

If you've only got one server, and a handful of users, purchasing an additional server and Windows license just to run Access Essentials can substantially add to the cost of deployment, so installing Access Essentials on your Domain Controller might be appropriate for you.

However, the integrity of your Domain Controller is vital for the overall security and operation of your Domain. Ideally, you want to run as little as possible on your Domain Controller, and restrict access to trusted Administrators. By it's very nature, allowing 'normal' users to run applications on your Domain Controller increases your exposure to both accidental damage, and to any security vulnerabilities in the Operating System or applications themselves."

Read on here.