[THIN] Re: Advice on Thin Client published desktops
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:35:15 -0700
In most cases using PNAgent on a published desktop turns out to be extremely
powerful and easy to manage. If you already have mastery of GPO and group
assignments then you could deliver the apps with PNagent through groups and
any more specific desktop/environment settings with GPO and you will be 99%
of the way there with a pretty simple set of management tools....
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85266
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Matt Kosht
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:57 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Advice on Thin Client published desktops
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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