[THIN] Re: Automatic Caching

I've been so busy; I did not explain that very well!  Bruce your answer did 
help some even with my poor explanation!  Most of users are using thin clients 
and only running applications on terminal servers/Metaframe.  

We want to setup forced caching on the file servers shares.  Our mobile users 
have both Local apps and Terminal access.  We are testing it right now, and it 
seems to work.

  
Thanks for the help, 

-Eric S. Perkins 
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Bruce Jarrett-Norton 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:29 
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [THIN] Re: Automatic Caching 

What we had to do was give the Notebooks users local apps for the MS 
products but they still need to connect to the farm / citrix for any 
others that are only published via citirx. 
For those users we created a j: drive that was mapped to their main 
folder on our file server, which is not a citrix server, and have that 
folder synced.  We set the security level on that folder for 
automatically caching of the documents.  Then we go 1 further for them, 
since most are executives and moving between drive letters seems to be 
difficult, we map their My Documents folder locally to that j: drive. 
Now all their MS programs that default to the My Documents go to this 
synched drive and will be synched when the log onto and off the network. 

One major thing is to look at how the synch is setup.  If the user only 
dials in some of the time you might want to set the synch to prompt so 
that they can decided if they want to  update or not through the dial 
in.  I also set the synch to work after 30 min of no-activity while on 
the network.  This is so that if they go to lunch it will synch their 
folder with the new information since they logged in and hopefully take 
less time when they shutdown. 

Another thing is that we setup a group templates folder for our 
individual divisions and for the corporate structure.  We applied 
securities to these folders and have our notebook users set up with the 
p: drive to synch this folder and use these for the workgroup templates. 
What is great about this is that the security on the folders are kept 
and the users can only see what they have access to. 

Hope this helps, 
Bruce Jarrett-Norton 
Dart Energy Corporation 
Desktop and Network Support Tech. 
e-mail: bjarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Joe Shonk 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 11:14 AM 
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [THIN] Re: Automatic Caching 


If you're talking about the offline file cache for server shares, then 
NO. The Terminal/Citrix Server generally resides in the same data center 
as where the other backend servers it touches. 

As for the laptop users, they will need to use the ICA/RDP client to 
connect the TS or MF farm.  The will not be able to use the farm 
offline. 

Joe 

-----Original Message----- 
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Eric S. Perkins 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 5:00 AM 
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [THIN] Re: Automatic Caching 

Anyone... Or does everyone shy away from this feature in 2000/2003 

-Eric 


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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Eric S. Perkins 
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 06:35 
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [THIN] Automatic Caching 

Happy New Year! 

When using the automatic caching features for document shares on windows 

2000 file servers, does a Metaframe/Terminal server hold cached shares 
machine wide or per user? 

We want to implement these features server wide for our mobile users, 
which may or may not have remote access where they are traveling.  It 
would be a lot easier then configuring all laptops individually. 

We were concerned about disk space issues on the Metaframe servers; does 

it have any benefit for the Metaframe server? 


-Eric S. Perkins 



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