[THIN] Re: Remote access and developers

Great idea Jim.  I have not yet but I will now.  The number could end up in
the 250-500 range.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jim Kenzig <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Have you looked at TSGateway in Server 2008 for remote access? They can
> then rdp to a desktop on a TS or actual workstation set up for them. (don't
> know how many you have to deal with)
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Michael Pardee <pardeemp@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this is a duplicate.  I had an issue with my email account
>> earlier.
>>
>> How is everyone handling remote access for their developers?  Citrix has
>> served us really well for the past 10 years and we will add our 10,000th
>> concurrent user this year, but we have never been able to get the developers
>> to play nicely in the Citrix world.  They all want (need?) their own
>> desktops and have always been able to justify elevated permissions.  I would
>> love to get them in Citrix, but for some apps that may be forcing a square
>> peg in a round hole.  We are getting ready to do some testing with a couple
>> VDI solutions, but it is way too early to tell if that will work for them
>> and I don't think we can bring up an environment fast enough to support
>> hundreds of remote developers.
>>
>> There is always the tried and true vpn solution, but since implementing
>> wi/csg years ago we have been eliminating vpn for client use and normally
>> just use it for network to network connectivity these days.
>>
>> Here is a subset of some of the applications we have yet to host via
>> Citrix today, but some of this may be because we never tried.
>>
>> Dreamweaver
>> Photoshop
>> SeeBeyond
>> Visual Studio .Net
>> Toad
>>
>> Thanks in advance everyone.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Pardee
>> http://blindsquirrel.org
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> --
> Jim Kenzig
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Presentation and Hosted Desktop
> Virtualization
> Citrix Technology Professional
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com




-- 
Michael Pardee
http://blindsquirrel.org

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