AD Migration Question

[CS1]

Hello all,

Let me start by saying I am more of a Networking person. However, my
job responsibilities have increased and my company needs me to perform
some 'SA' functions. I need some help with an upcoming AD migration.

We have a program that users access by authenticating to a program on
an NT box then authenticating via Citrix to get to the program. The NT
box is going away and AD is coming. It is my job to ensure that users
will have access to our program which they connect to via Citrix - post
AD migration. I am a little unclear as to what I will have to do on my
end to ensure this.

I would think the AD group that is migrating the NT box to AD would set
up the domain controller and the Citrix and application servers would
be member servers. If that be the case, would it just be a matter of
the AD group setting up an OU for our users on the domain controller?
If so, then what would we really have to do on our end to ensure the
users have access? Once they set up the OU, would we just have to add
the users to the container?

Any thoughts/advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Let me
know if you need any more info before responding.

Thanks,

CS1

 

[CS1]

I forgot to say there are currently about 250 users but we plan on
having about 1,000 in the future.

 

[Paul Bergson]

Your Citrix users will have to be added to the published applications with
in the Citrix application via the Citrix Management Console (CMC or whatever
it is called now). Newer versions on Citrix now allow you to have pass
through authentication and once you are signed on to AD (I don't think) you
won't even need to authenticate to Citrix anymore.

Unclear as to what your reference to the OU is eluding too. The machines
will be just member servers but have Terminal Services installed first and
they have to point to a Windows License server and then they will also need
Citrix licenses installed.

Probably the best place on the net for Citrix questions is
http://thethin.net/ they have an outstanding web forum.

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Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[CS1]

Thank you for your response Paul. I really appreciate it!