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

Creating a Naming Standard

Having a naming standard for your users and groups makes administration significantly easier. When assigning rights to files, connections, or other Terminal Server resources, you need to list the users by domain. In large domains it is easy for them to become “lost in the list.” By establishing and adhering to a naming standard, it is much easier to keep track of them, because their names are organized in an understandable fashion. Even in smaller domains, the purpose of every user and group can be difficult to keep track of if a naming standard is not followed.

Naming standards also make the setup of your server farm much easier to understand. This simplicity will make it easier for you to train people who support ...