[THIN] Re: Remote access and developers

This why often remote dev sessions are given dedicated machines with RDP 
access. Now that XEN Desktop is out you can offer this by direct ICA.....


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-----Original Message-----
From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:23:24 
To:<thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: Remote access and developers


Dreamweaver and Photoshop can be made to work in Citrix, but installing them is 
the biggest pain in the butt. 
  
Visual Studio works as well. 
  
The question with these apps is they use a lot of CPU and memory. 
  
Joe 
  
 
 
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Michael Pardee
 Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:16 AM
 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: [THIN] Remote access and developers 
  
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. 

 
 
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 Michael Pardee
 http://blindsquirrel.org <http://blindsquirrel.org>

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