[THIN] Re: pc anywhere
- From: Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:20:55 +1000
Hi Andrew,
This is a perfect case for VDI; that application that you don't want on a TS
that is used by only a few users. Admittedly the degree of integration
between XenApp and XenDesktop at the moment makes things more than a bit
awkward, but once the technology catches up to the marketting [?] it ought to
be dead simple.
My first foray into VDI was nearly 4 years ago when we'd done a full TS
implementation with thin clients on almost everyone's desk. Then they were
sold a Cisco VOIP solution and Cisco presence didn't run on TS. There were a
bunch of senior personal assistants in the company that gave the IT manager
hell because they couldn't even tell if their bosss was on the phone. We
didn't want to give them PCs instead of their thin clients so the answer was
to run up a bunch of XP virtual machines on one of their ESX host, and hard
codes the thin clients to connect to the Windows XP VMs. A bit of magic with
the shell to make XP look just like 2003 TS and nobody was the wiser. But
the PAs had what they wanted and we had a quiet life.
You don't need to give your users fat PCs just because you can't run an
application on TS. Give them access to published applications hosted on
Windows XP/7 instead.
regards,
Rick
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Wood
<andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> True – but sometimes the punter wants to use PCAnywhere to go to another
> site to allow support for instance (maybe they’re a software house and
> they’re doing some update maintenance) – because that’s **always** how
> they’ve done remote support . They don’t want PCAnywhere to be supported on
> a standalone desktop for a whole host of reasons (they don’t want to buy a
> PC, they’ve already got a TS services running on the box, they want their
> developers to work from home and be able to moderate from a single instance
> etc.etc.etc)
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> Ideally you look to re-evaluate how remote support is provisioned and
> managed – but that all takes time – and in the meantime you’re left with
> sorting something else.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Joe Shonk
> *Sent:* 23 August 2010 15:40
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: pc anywhere
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> Why would you need PC anywhere? RDP works fine.
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> Joe
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Hamilton, Ronnie
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:31 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] pc anywhere
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> Hi
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> I have been trying to avoid this one on the new implementation of XenApp
> 4.5 on 2k3, but I am getting overruled.
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> We do have been running PcAnywhere on our old farm but it is very grainy
> and I was hoping that the one person in the company that actually uses it
> would be just given a Vista PC but I'm being pushed to Install and test it
> in our new environment.
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> Has anyone had any good experiences?
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> Or pointers to documents to say that it shouldn't be done.
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> thanks
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> Ronnie
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