[THIN] Re: Quicken Home & Business 2009

Sorry for replying back so late....

Exactly how do you modify qw.exe to "use a local rather than global mutex" 
? 
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From:
Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
08/02/2009 03:22 PM
Subject:
[THIN] Re: Quicken Home & Business 2009
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Hi Nick,
 
Not quite yet. We've got an alpha product update to Redirect-IT that does 
stuff like mailslot redirection and it's being extended to do other types 
of named objects like mutexes named pipes and also wtsapi32 redirection 
for applications that don't need to know they're running on TS like 
AutoCAD.
 
Stay tuned. My aim is to have something better than AIE :-)
 
In the mean time it's a 30 second job to modify qw.exe to use a local 
rather than global mutex which makes it multi-user on TS.
 
regards,
 
Rick
-- 

Ulrich Mack
Quest Software Australia
Provision Networks Division


 
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
Would you be able to use Provision's File Redirection to achieve the same 
thing as AIE?
IE Redirect c:\quicken\qw.exe to %homedrive%%homepath%\%username%qw.exe or 
similar?
 
Nick
 
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Rick Mack
Sent: 07 February 2009 21:31
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Quicken Home & Business 2009
 
Hi Gehan,
 
Yes and it's actually quite easy.
 
Quicken sets a global mutex (QW is running) to prevent more than one 
instance running on a server. A global mutex is a semaphore that is 
visible to all terminal server sessions so if one user runs qw.exe, the 
global mutex (qw is running) is visible in all other user sessions, 
preventing them from running another instance of QW.
 
You can do several things to get around this problem:
1. Rename the global mutex to a name that is user-specific, which is what 
Citrix AIE does.
2. Use a script wrapper to kill the global mutex handle
3. modify qw.exe to change the global mutex reference to a local mutex
 
AIE is only available in XenApp enterprise or platinum editions, but if 
you've only got advanced edition or plain terminal services the other 2 
options aren't very hard.
 
regards,
 
Rick
-- 
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software Australia
Provision Networks Division
mob: 0419 393 808

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:51 AM, <Gehan.DeSilva@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello 

Has anyone been able to deploy any of the  Quicken Home & Business 2007/ 8 
or 9 in either a Pres 4.0 or 4.5 server farm using any method successfully 
? 

This app has a nice little problem of only being able to run once per box, 
i have never been able to successfully isolate the app. 



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