Technical information

WinFrame and MetaFrame on

team

server

WinFrame

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is a multi-user variant of Windows NT

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3.51, which allows standard PC applications to be run on a central

server, yet appear to the user as if the application is running locally on the client. This gives a number of benefits,

including the ability to use low-cost, low maintenance ErgoWin thin-client desktops, and much simplified administration.

WinFrame is ideally suited to delivering PC business applications cost-effectively to thin-client desktops, desktop PCs

and mobile PCs regardless of where the client is located in the network.

Gartner studies have shown that the use of WinFrame with ErgoWin desktops can result in a reduction in the Total Cost

of Ownership (TCO) of up to 40% compared to a traditional PC/Server environment.

Two product variants are available, WinFrame for Terminals and WinFrame Enterprise.

WinFrame Enterprise is positioned as a complete telecomputing platform for the enterprise network, satisfying a full

range of requirements, from remote LAN access, to simple deployment of Windows applications to branch office sites,

and manageable delivery of client/server applications anywhere in the network.

WinFrame for Terminals is designed as an entry-level method of delivering Windows applications to the desktop, and is

especially suitable for small networks where most or all of the clients are ErgoWin terminals. It is far cheaper than the

Enterprise version, but it excludes NT server facilities such as file & print, contains a licence for only 5 users (instead of

15), and each PC client needs a licence (with the Enterprise version, they are free).

MetaFrame

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is for use with Microsoft Windows NT

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4, Terminal Server Edition. Together, they provide a similar

solution to WinFrame. MetaFrame adds the ICA

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protocol, additional manageability, (eg session shadowing, local

printing, audio support, application publishing) and load balancing (optional) to the Terminal Server Edition.

MetaFrame enables a wide variety of clients to be able to attach to the server (DOS, Windows 3.x, MAC, Unix, Linux

etc); Terminal Server Edition alone only provides access for RDP

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terminals, Windows 9x or Windows NT Workstation

clients.

Two other optional products are available for WinFrame/MetaFrame systems – Citrix Resource Management Services

and Citrix Installation Management Services. Citrix Resource Management Services provides management tools for

analyzing and tuning Citrix MetaFrame, WinFrame (1.7 and higher) and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal

Server Edition. The key features are audit trail, application usage analysis, capacity planning, system monitoring, alert

notification and billing. Citrix Installation Management Services automates the application installation process so that

applications may be quickly and easily replicated to Citrix servers across the enterprise. It provides centralised

application installation for all Citrix servers on the network.