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More On Citrix Access Essentials 2.0

Tuesday, 15 May 2007 by Michel Roth

From CitrixCommuntiy.com comes some more information about Access Essentials 2.0: "The challenge for us in the Access Essentials engineering team was how to combine the two conceived products into one. For customers that only wanted a single server, we wanted to keep all of that simplicity - but for customers wanting a multi-server solution, we needed to add the functionality to support them - no single point of failure, automatic failure recovery, and centralised user profile storage.

We invented the concepts of Basic and Advanced modes in Access Essentials - Trent became Basic mode and is the natural successor to Access Essentials 1.5, limited to a single server and available on workgroup servers. Voyager became Advanced mode and supports multiple servers, but has a dependency on Active Directory. Compared to Trent, Basic mode gained a DMZ server option and e-mail alerting, because they didn't depend on Active Directory."

Also you can pick up on some of the important pointers for Access Essentials 2.0. Did you know for example that Access Essentials 2.0:

� Only supports use of the Access Database?
� Farms are called Server Groups?
� Has a server called the Master Server (that holds the IMA datastore, and runs Web Interface and Secure Gateway)?
� There's only one zone?
� You can configure roaming profiles and folder redirection right out of a simple wizard?

No huh? Well that's exactly why you should read this article.