[THIN] Re: A definitive registry information source?
- From: "Adam Thompson" <adwulf@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:58:19 +0100
2008/5/9 Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> But it's still not as easy as installing an application on a Windows XP
> desktop and unfortunately the major skill set in a lot of
> organizations resides in the desktop management team.
>
That depends entirely on how you're doing it.
If it's a custom application, and you have to package it for desktop
deployment, I'd argue it's usually much harder than sticking it on a
TS.
> You know them, they're the people who reboot a TS server with 50 users
> logged on because the spooler has stopped. They often just can't or won't
> come to grips with TS and actively hate it. They're the ones that have made
> Citrix a dirty word in a lot of organizations.
You need to fire^W train your server team if that is happening.
Nobody with a hint of a clue would do this. And nobody with a
smidgeon of cluefulness would grant them the permissions to do it in
the first place.
The ones who make Citrix a dirty word are the ones who woefully
underestimate the budget for bandwidth and server specs.
>
> It needs different skill sets, more experience and a much better
> understanding of how everything hangs together. The people who do TS well
> are the IT equivalent of rocket scientists.
>
I'm sure the people who run Active Directory would argue the same. As
would SQL gurus, and IIS specialists, and... well you get the idea.
I've had to get applications which only want to work on the console,
or would only run one instance at a time to run in a Terminal Services
environment. And I've had to get half-baked VB5 applications designed
for NT4 to run on XP SP2 desktops - without luxuries like isolation
evironments and virtualisation. I think the desktop side is harder
than the TS side.
--
AdamT
I'll ruin you... you'll never waitress in Torquay again!
- Basil Fawlty
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