What Problems Does It Solve
Anyone who owns or manages a small business knows how difficult it can be trying to enter orders, bill customers, schedule resources, manage accounts, and generally run line-of-business applications when you leave the main computer facility – usually located at headquarters. Firewalls that block connections, impossibly poor response over slow lines, security threats from public networks, and improper or inadequate equipment at the remote end are just some of the obstacles that get in the way.
Unable to revise or view your organization’s central records remotely may be forcing you to make poor trade-offs between keeping up with your business and attending to your personal life. For example, you may be spending long hours at the office trying to complete data entry or generate reports before leaving, because it can’t get done anywhere else. Or you may have others drive into the office during the weekend or holidays just to make minor corrections or updates needed by the next business day. Without a doubt, those extended work days and unnecessary commutes create wear and tear on you and your colleagues. Not to mention the long delays that your customers and suppliers experience when they need something outside normal business hours.
Citrix Access Essentials enables you and others in your team to take back those wasted hours by providing timely, convenient and responsive access to your central computer resources from anywhere – just go to the nearest Internet connection and log in with a Web browser. You’ll feel just as if you were right at the office next to the main server.
Access Essentials runs on a server running the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2003, Standard or Enterprise Edition.
If using Active Directory, add the computer running Access Essentials to the directory before installation. Access Essentials supports both Workgroup and Domain deployments. The deployment of Access Essentials on a Windows domain controller is not supported.
The Access Essentials Setup checks that all required Windows system components are installed. If any are missing, Setup prompts to install the missing components.
Supported devices include:
- Windows XP and Vista operating systems
- Java-enabled devices
- Linux and Solaris operating systems
- Windows CE handheld computers and Windows-based terminals
- MacOS X
Supported Web browsers include:
Internet Explorer 6.x
- Vista
- Windows XP
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
- Windows 2003 with Service Pack 1
- Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
Firefox 1.x
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
- Windows 2003
- Red Hat Enterprise Edition
- Mac OS X
Safari 2.0
Mozilla 1.x
Pocket IE
- Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
- Windows Mobile 2005
Internet Explorer 6.0
- WinCE.NET 4.2
- WinCE 5.0
- Windows XPe with Service Pack 1
Citrix recommends that you install the latest clients on your user’s device to ensure that they can take advantage of the latest features.
Important You must install appropriate clients on non-Windows devices before launching applications through Access Essentials. If you do not, any attempt to launch the application will likely fail.
Most Windows devices without an appropriate client installed invoke an automatic download of the client when you log on to Access Essentials. This requires the Access Essentials site to be defined as either a Trusted site or Local intranet zone in Internet Explorer (under Tools > Internet Options > Security).