[THIN] Re: AutoCad 2006 on Citrix!
- From: "Matthew Shrewsbury" <MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:02:20 -0500
How was the load on the server? How many sessions could you use of
Autocad on a single server? I had always thought Autocad would over work
a server if you had more then a couple of sessions running at a time.
Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+
Senior Network Administrator
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rick Mack
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:57 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: AutoCad 2006 on Citrix!
Hi,
One of my education customers had to get AutoCAD 2006 working in a
multi-user environment.
While the installation of AutoCAD 2006 was reasonably straight forward,
there were 2 issues that were kind of challenging. The first was that
only administrators could run AutoCAD in an ICA or RDP session, whereas
anyone could run it on the console. The second was that only 2 instances
of acad.exe would run.
Filemon and regmon didn't tell us anything, and the breakthrough came
when my customer's systems engineer, Peter See, turned on auditting and
found some privilege violations for autocad running in a TS session. He
then found a Microsoft Technote (KB821546) which explained the
differences in privilege levels between a TS session and a console
session. Once the appropriate privileges were assigned to authenticated
users, it was a reasonably straightforward matter to sort out other
file/registry issues. An unmanaged policy template took care of almost
everything else.
Multiple instances of Autocad can be launched provided a bit of
scripting is used to make sure each instance of autocad uses a unique
executable name, and to suppress a rename error on execution. We've run
up to 12 instances of non-admin AutoCAD 2006 on a server so it appears
to be properly multiuser ;-)
Peter has written up the full installation/configuration process and has
made it available to me for public distribution. If people are
interested and someone is able to host the documentation, I could upload
it for general consumption.
One thing this exercise taught me is to take more notice of the
information that process explorer gives you, because when I was checking
out acad.exe to get around the 2 instances limit, I noticed that the
security tab for the executable actually listed the privileges used.
Doh...
Anyway, I can now state categorically that AutoCAD 2006 will run on
Citrix.
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
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