[THIN] Re: AIE under Citrix PS 4.0

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:51:52 -0700

Jeremy,

Like I was saying before, don't isolate or redirect AIE to a redirected
%APPDATA%.

A simple test:

Create a new isolation environment and associate it to a test published app.
Remove ALL the default AIE crap from this AIE environment.
Create the specific isolation/redirection rules  (point to
%userprofile%\Citrix\AIE\MyApp)




-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:29 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: AIE under Citrix PS 4.0


As I posted earlier, we saw major performance issues when using a redirect.
Is it possible to test it without any redirection or network paths in place,
i.e. just have it look at the locally cached profile? I realize that this
does not address the search path issue, but we have seen performance issues
in a similar scenario. Once we got rid of the redirect everything started
working nicely, including issues with finding files that it ought to have
seen.

Regards, 


Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
(602) 296-0411 fax 
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 2:50 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: AIE under Citrix PS 4.0

I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me here Mike?

I've actually changed the User Profile Root from %APPDATA% to
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, but that has nothing to do with the problem.

The problem is that when I execute the application by aierun, it takes a
long time to open. When watching filemon it shows that every file is being
referenced from the AIE path first before it them finds it in the
%ProgramFiles% folder. Citrix has been unable to explain why this is so, and
I was wondering if anyone on this list would know why.

i have tried both Isolate and Redirect with the same results.

It seems as though most people on this list have not delved into the AIE
world yet.

Cheers,
Jeremy.



                                                                           
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Have you redirected the user's Appdata folder? Files created or saved by the
current user are located in the folder called
%APPDATA%\Citrix\AIE\AIE_NAME\Device\drive_letter.

%APPDATA is a Windows environment variable and is replaced by the
application data folder for the current user.

Hope that helps,

Mike

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From: Steve Greenberg steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:14:34 -0700
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: AIE under Citrix PS 4.0



Well, I could be off here, but doesn?t redirect do exactly what you want? I
thought redirect leaves the local files in place where they reside normally
and then re-directs the user specific stuff to the new location.

Worth a check, sorry if I am wrong, I find AIE a bit confusing....


Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
(602) 296-0411 fax
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:56 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: AIE under Citrix PS 4.0

Nope...I definitely want Isolate and not Redirect. All default settings are
correct.

Filemon shows that all exe's and dll's are first searched through the AIE
path instead of the normal path. This is why it's so slow to execute the
application. No one at Citrix thus far has been able to explain why.

 Kind regards,

 Jeremy Saunders
 Senior Technical Specialist

 Integrated Technology Services &
 Cerulean
 IBM Australia
 Level 2, 1060 Hay Street
 West Perth  WA  6005

 Visit us at
 http://www.ibm.com/services/au/its

 P:  +61 8 9261 8412                F:  +61 8 9261 8486
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Double check your default settings and check out the precise description of
isolate versus redirect. There may be some subtly here that happens to
impact this application........


Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
(602) 296-0411 fax
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:02 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: AIE under Citrix PS 4.0

Hi Evan,

My appologies. I should have said CashBook, and not QuickBooks. I have the
"QuickBooks" series of apps working, but the "CashBook" series of apps will
not work, and are not supported by Quicken mainly due to sharing violations
in the %ProgramFiles% folder.

I've done approximately 40 different accountancy applicatsions for one of
Australias largest Accountancy firms. This is really the last on to get
working, and the only one that has required the use of an AIE.

Isolating it in that manner should be supported, as it's documented as a
function of AIE.

Cheers.

 Kind regards,

 Jeremy Saunders
 Senior Technical Specialist

 Integrated Technology Services &
 Cerulean
 IBM Australia
 Level 2, 1060 Hay Street
 West Perth  WA  6005

 Visit us at
 http://www.ibm.com/services/au/its

 P:  +61 8 9261 8412                F:  +61 8 9261 8486
 M:  TBA                            E-mail:
                                    jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx











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I just installed QuickBooks Enterprise 5.0 on PS4 and do not appear to be
having any issues. I did get a weird "files not found, click to download
again" the first time each user logged in.  I redirect the home folder, but
QuickBooks is just installed to program files and not running in an AIE.
I have not heard any complaints yet.



-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:39 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] AIE under Citrix PS 4.0

Hi All,

I'm having a bit or trouble trying to isolate an application using an AIE
and am looking for an "expert" that has a real good understanding of how it
should work.

Don't get me wrong, it isolates and lauches the application, but it takes so
long to launch the app and close it that it is not acceptable for the
production environment.

The applications I am working with is Quicken 2003 QuickBooks and Quicken
2004 QuickBooks (for an accountancy firm). These programs are not multiuser
and Terminal Server aware, so there are a couple of files in the
%ProgramFiles% folder that generate a sharing violation, therefore I am
using an AIE to Isolate ONLY these files.

When lanuching the program normally outside the AIE, it opens and closes
really quickly. But when lanching it via AIERUN, it's terribly slow. If you
trace them with filemon you can see that it's searching the AIE User Profile
Root for ALL files (exe's, dll's, etc) first, instead of from the
%ProgramFiles% folder. It is my understanding that it should only refer to
the AIE User Profile Root for the isolated files.

I have a call logged with Citrix. So far level 1 support has not been that
helpful to a point where they are blaming the Quicken application. I find
this hard to believe and have asked for it to be escalated. In fact, I have
asked to speak to an AIE expert who can explain why this is happening, and
hopefully provide me with a solution, or tell me if I have correctly
configured it. But I'm not confident that they will find me one for Monday,
so thought I'd put this to the forum.

The server OS is Windows 2003 (not SP1).

Any help and advice would be appreciated.

Cheers.

 Kind regards,

 Jeremy Saunders
 Senior Technical Specialist

 Integrated Technology Services &
 Cerulean
 IBM Australia
 Level 2, 1060 Hay Street
 West Perth  WA  6005

 Visit us at
 http://www.ibm.com/services/au/its

 P:  +61 8 9261 8412                F:  +61 8 9261 8486
 M:  TBA                            E-mail:
                                    jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx









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