[THIN] Re: Looking for your Original/Innovative uses for Citrix for a presentation I am doing
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:05:49 -0700
Jeremy,
Very good questions and comments!
We told the Citrix product manager about our plans several months ago and
discussed it with them. They said they wouldn't have something for quite a
while so we went ahead and wrote it- the customer has been in production
with it for a while already. Citrix was fully aware of our feature set, I am
curious to see how many make it into their product :)
Besides, when you build it from scratch and design it around the customer
environment it simply works better and produces a more elegant solution.
Throughout our ten year history we have always been involved in these
leading/cutting edge projects. Sure you can wait around for commercial
versions of what the customer needs, but by the time is comes out and other
people are doing it, we have already deployed the solution and are on to the
next thing.
It is also interesting to note that much of the code ends up being fairly
simple in the end. The real magic is in having the insight and experience to
fully comprehend the requirements. You need to properly analyze the desired
outcome against the details of the existing infrastructure. That is, you
must know the precise feature set of all the existing products and all the
"gotchas". Then you extend that with what is possible at the API level and
through custom coding and datasets. The resulting code is usually
surprisingly straightforward and easily maintained. Our clients are please
with the result and have had no problems taking ownership of the projects
and custom coded portions.
Regards,
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:28 PM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Looking for your Original/Innovative uses for Citrix for
a presentation I am doing
Very cool Steve. You and Joe get all the good projects :) But wouldn't
something like a commercial broker (http://www.leostream.com/) do this for
you? Then you don't have to worry about the on-going support and
maintenance of your app, which can be a legal nightmare. And I guess the
new Citrix Desktop Broker being publicly released this month will do as
well. I'm just intrigued to know what motivated you to write your own?
Cheers.
Kind regards,
Jeremy Saunders
Senior Technical Specialist
Infrastructure Technology Services
(ITS) & Cerulean
Global Technology Services (GTS)
IBM Australia
Level 2, 1060 Hay Street
West Perth WA 6005
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Jim,
One of the interesting things we did recently was create a Citrix solution
with custom software that uses the published application functionality of
Citrix as a front end to a bank of virtual machines. In this scenario, the
software requires it?s own XP workstation so we wrote custom software that
serves up virtual machines to end users on demand. It tracks sessions in
use and hands out available VM?s as needed. It also load balances across
physical host machines.
Regards,
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:29 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Looking for your Original/Innovative uses for Citrix for a
presentation I am doing
Hi all
I am going to be doing a presentation at CSEIT prior to iForum on Getting
the most of Citrix/Using Citrix across your organization.
I am looking for additional ideas from people on how they have come up with
innovative/original new ways to save time and use Citrix in your
corporation.
I have things like ways of publishing MMC's of AD users, Rdesktops and
Exchange Control Panel, Publishing Printers Folder, Web interace mods,
CSG/WI usage, etc. Just looking for some other great things people are
doing with Citrix Products that they think others may not of thought of
that other companies could use. I'll make the whole presentation available
after CSEIT to the list.
Please post to the list as this could be a great thread also. Include
registry hacks, text you used to publish the item, etc. I'll try and give
credit where credit is due.
Thanks,
Jim Kenzig
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
Provision Networks VIP
CEO The Kenzig Group
http://www.kenzig.com
Blog: http://www.techblink.com
Terminal Services Downloads: http://www.thinhelp.com
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