Thanks for your response Ron, much appreciated. If the licensing is not part of the DS, does this mean that the 96 grace period restriction can be removed? Thanks in advance, Brian -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ron Oglesby Sent: 21 April 2004 00:57 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: global or multi regional citrix farms OK. Just to add a couple of ideas here. 1- the most common reason to create a "global" farm with different admins in each location (possibly on different continents) is to share licenses. 2- Corruption of the ds is a common fret. Also when you have possibly 20 DS's floating around you are asking for trouble trying to replicate that much. 3- The DS in MPS 3.0 addresses both of these That's right, in 3.0 the license functions are removed from the Datastore. Meaning you can share licenses all around the network while still having separate data stores. Plus as long as permissions are there a central "corp citrix team" could still have access to all the farms. Just my two cents. Replicating to that many DS databases is asking for problems Ron Oglesby Senior Technical Architect Microsoft MVP, Windows Server RapidApp, Chicago Office 312.372.7188 Mobile 815.325.7618 email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx ******************************************************** This week's sponsor - Neoware Thin Clients Neoware makes computing open, secure, reliable, affordable, manageable and obsolete-free. Starting at $199! http://www.neoware.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ============================================================================== This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you received this message in error please delete it and notify us. If this message was misdirected, CSFB does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. CSFB retains and monitors electronic communications sent through its network. Instructions transmitted over this system are not binding on CSFB until they are confirmed by us. Message transmission is not guaranteed to be secure. ============================================================================== ******************************************************** This week's sponsor - Neoware Thin Clients Neoware makes computing open, secure, reliable, affordable, manageable and obsolete-free. Starting at $199! http://www.neoware.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm