[THIN] Re: Advice on Thin Client published desktops
- From: "Matt Kosht" <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:06:49 -0500
On Jan 8, 2008 10:05 PM, Matt Kosht <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 9:55 PM, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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When you publish content doesn't it have to be a web page or a
document or other non executable? How would you publish Word as
content for example?
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