Upgrade to Citrix Presentation Server™ 4.5 for free with your active Citrix Subscription Advantage™ membership. Upgrade today from Citrix MetaFrame XP™ to Presentation Server 4.5 to benefit from more than 150 new features that broaden application compatibility, improve usability, simplify access, strengthen application security, and enhance the end user experience.

Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade
MetaFrame XP customers that upgrade to the latest Presentation Server benefit from these industry-leading technologies:  

• Client-side Application Virtualization for flexible delivery options
  Centralize management of applications, and isolate and stream them to Presentation Servers or directly to user desktops without worrying about application and system conflicts. By adding streaming to existing application virtualization capabilities, Presentation Server dynamically selects the best application delivery method for the user, the application, the device or the network. You have the flexibility to virtualize applications on the client for mobile users who work offline, or, virtualize applications on the server for maximum control and security of access to confidential data. Read more…

• Application Performance Monitoring for visibility into the access experience
  Powered by Citrix EdgeSight™ software, the monitoring capabilities in Presentation Server enable IT to quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot server, network and application programming issues that impact the user experience. Read more…

• Application Hub for instant application delivery
  Centrally store isolated applications that you want to deliver to users through client- or server-side Application Virtualization. Rapidly provision applications and updates to Presentation Server farms without disrupting users or causing application or system conflicts. This feature greatly simplifies delivery and maintenance of applications across any size Presentation Server farm. Read more…

• SmartAccess for access security and control
  Powered by the Citrix Access Gateway™ product line of SSL VPN appliances, the new secure gateway solution provides SmartAccess™ granular access control policies and integrated endpoint analysis. Read more…

• Single Sign-On for strongest application security
  Secure application logons with single sign-on, powered by Citrix Password Manager™. With automated application logons, password policy control, and self-service password reset, you can enhance the security of all password-protected Windows applications delivered by Presentation Server. Read more…

• Health Assistant for enhanced reliability
  Strengthen system resiliency with Health Assistant capabilities that perform continuous server health checks and automatically initiate recovery procedures, minimizing the need for administrator intervention. Read more…

• Increased server performance for maximum return on IT investment
  Imagine getting 500 users per server— dramatically reducing your hardware acquisition costs, electricity and cooling costs, and management and maintenance. Presentation Server includes CPU management and virtual memory optimization and leverages the 64-bit platform to get the maximum number of users on every server. Read more…

• Improved user experience and faster graphics performance
  Dramatically reduce network bandwidth costs and improve the performance of graphics-intensive applications with new SpeedScreen™ Progressive Display technology. IT can now centrally manage applications such as healthcare PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) and GIS mapping applications, while providing the speed and anywhere-access flexibility that users need. New features also include improved multimonitor support, PDA synchronization, USB support for TWAIN devices, a quick launch bar for program neighborhood, and Citrix SmoothRoaming™ for smart card users. Additionally, users will enjoy faster logon times, faster file transfers and faster browsing through files and folders. Performance gains will be even higher for remote users where latency is typically an issue. These benefits can help your organization improve user satisfaction and productivity. Read more…

• Better and faster printing
  Presentation Server has always provided a good printing solution with its universal print driver (UPD).  Presentation Server now comes with a new universal print driver and delivers printing up to four times faster, using less bandwidth and less memory.  Users have access to advanced printing functions like multiple trays, stapling, etc. Session printer policies allow users to more easily print to the closest printer as they roam from device to device, such as in a hospital or in a manufacturing plant environment.  Overall, printing is significantly faster and better—improving productivity and satisfaction.

• Hundreds of new features and functions
  Download the comparative feature matrix for a detailed list of features that have been added since MetaFrame XP.

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