[THIN] Re: Advice on Thin Client published desktops
- From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:55:10 -0600
i don't know about preferred but using the pnagent to fill in the apps on a
published desktop is really easy and powerful. I have been running farms
that way since the agent first came out about five (six?) years ago (wow!
has it been that long!?!?). It's even easier if you publish the apps as
content rather than apps. Then you don't have to assign and unassign
servers to apps every time you take a server on or offline. The downside to
that is that the the apps then ONLY work in the published desktop so your
users in WI will need to know that. I hide them in WI so users only see the
desktop.
Greg
On Jan 8, 2008 7:56 PM, Matt Kosht <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After running nearly 8 yrs on Novell infrastructure my company is
> beginning to migrate over to Microsoft equivalents. On our PS4.0 farm
> we run a mix of published apps using PNAgent (in the office) and WI
> 4.6 (remote access)to get them out to the user population. We also
> have piloted 20 users on Neoware e140's (linux) thin clients getting a
> published desktop session. We are looking to add more of these over
> the next year and this may become the dominant client of choice. In
> the Novell/Citrix world we used Zenworks to build/customize the user
> desktop (showing them the apps they were authorized to, setting policy
> restrictions, etc). In the Microsoft world we have a working solution
> of using GPO's and scripting to create the links on the desktop
> dynamically based on group memberships (if member of appA then create
> appA link). This script seems a bit clunky to me and could be hard to
> manage (we have about 30 unique apps in the farm). I have read some
> on this and found some admins use PNAgent inside the published desktop
> to build shortcuts, start menu, etc. Is this the preferred solution
> to this challenge? Are there other methods/tools I should consider?
> Soliciting advice from the Thin think tank.
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