[THIN] Re: 1000 MS Office users on Citrix
- From: "Berny Stapleton" <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:22:37 +0000
The question I always face this one is WHY?
Yes, you can do it, it's not a problem. There are the obvious questions though:
Do the workstations that they are running have the CPU / RAM to run
Office? If they do, then why put it on Citrix? Centralised management?
New office version? Already have Citrix and want to expand the
deployment as you don't have any way to deploy it easily otherwise?
Does anyone within the organisation know enough about Citrix to keep
the environment stable enough? I know a couple of organisations that
have had bad Citrix deployments and have subsequently called it
$hitrix.
Is there any interaction between the applications? Is there
dependencies on word or excel for internally developed apps? Are you
still going to have to maintain some installs of Office locally
anyway?
With anything in IT, there are many different ways to answer the
problem, Citrix althrough a great tool in the toolbox to solve
problems, it is also only one way to solve them and there may be a
better answer.
My words for Citrix are "Strategic deployment", if you want to use it
for remote access, remote office, thin client, whatever, I always make
sure I know why I am deploying it and the reasoning behind it before
ordering the licenses.
What is the problem you are trying to solve?
Berny
On 22/01/2008, Cwalinski, Zygmunt <zcwalinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Do you think it's worth to publish MS Office for about 1000 users and get
> rid of MS Office from workstations?
> Do you know any major companies that have a large number of MS Office users
> on Citrix?
> If yes, I would apprieciate two or three companies names.
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> I will be really greatfull for information.
> Zygmunt Cwalinski, CCA
> Systems Analyst, Citrix and Terminal Services Network Services,
> Infrastructure Support, IT Metroland Media Group Ltd.
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