[THIN] Re: Published applications in a mixed OS environment

I see what "may" be a problem with that. I copied and pasted the second command 
structure below and once I added the proper % in the IF EXIST "%pro ...
I was able to recreate the error message.

I was able to clear it up by changing the quotes from the Fancy quotes to 
"Standard" quotes. 

Does that make sense?

Hope it helps,
Dennis




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From: George Wasgatt <gwasgatt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:11:11 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Published applications in a mixed OS environment


I see where I was going wrong, I thought that the programfiles environment 
variable would tell me which architecture I was running on – not so. There are 
two programfiles environment variables for X-64 and one for X-32.  So I can’t 
use that approach.
 
The processor architecture test should work, if I can get the syntax correct.  
Here’s the slightly modified batch file:
 
@echo on
IF /I “%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%”==”AMD64” (
“%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
) ELSE (
“%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
)
Exit /B 0
 
I get back:
 
\Microsoft was unexpected at this time.
 
I tried a different approach, testing for the existence of the x86 file:
 
@echo on
IF EXIST "programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" (
“%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
) ELSE (
“%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
)
Exit /B 0
 
And I get the same response: \Microsoft was unexpected at this time.
.  
 
From:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:08 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Published applications in a mixed OS environment
 
Personally, I’ve not tried mixing architectures before in the same published 
application, and I would suggest that it’s not a recommended practice, but you 
could get it to work a different way.
 
Change your published app to launch a .cmd file. The .cmd file would make the 
decision on the location of the application based on the 
%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% variable. Something like this…
 
@echo off
IF /I “%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%”==”x64” (
“%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
) ELSE (
“%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
)
Exit /B 0
 
Cheers,
Jeremy.
 
From:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
George Wasgatt
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:50 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Published applications in a mixed OS environment
 
We upgraded our farm to Presentation Manager 4.5 and added a new server running 
Windows 2003 Standard x64.  We want to load balance across the entire farm so 
we loaded our standard set of applications on the server.  We immediately ran 
into a problem – some of the applications were loaded into the subdirectory 
c:\program files (x86) rather than into c:\program files like they were on the 
32 bit servers.
 
I thought I could just change the published application to something like this:
 
Command line:
  “%programfiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE”
 
Working Directory:
  %programfiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12
 
After testing this it starts OK on the 32 bit servers but fails on the 64 bit 
server with this error message (note: I named the published application Excel 
64):
 
“Excel 64” Failed to start.
The Citrix server is unable to process your request.
Please try again.  If the problem persists,  contact your administrator.
 
But, if I hit OK on this message and launch the application again it starts 
just fine.
 
George Wasgatt
Network Administrator
ProHealth Physicians
4 Farm Spring Rd.
Farmington, CT 06032
Phone: 860-284-5264
 

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