Inside Citrix® MetaFrame XP™: A System Administrator's Guide to Citrix MetaFrame XP/1.8™ and Windows® Terminal Services

Top-Ten Application Publishing Tips

Now it's time to summarize the tips in this chapter with the top ten application publishing tips list, which follows:

1. Name applications consistently. Choose a naming standard and stick to it, early in the farm setup. As your farm grows larger, naming standards become very important. Remember that an application name must be unique across your farm.

2. Use short display names and long descriptions. Always use as short of a display name for an application as possible. This name should be heavily abbreviated and ideally fewer than 10 characters. For example, use Pwpt 2K rather than Microsoft Power Point 2000. In large environments you might need to use larger names to differentiate similar applications.

3. Publish the ...