[THIN] Re: AutoCad 2006 on Citrix!
- From: Jeremy Saunders <jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:29:49 +0800
As always Rick...excellent info.
Do you generate the new executable on the fly? I'm just trying to
understand how you're making this seemless to the users?
Cheers.
Kind regards,
Jeremy Saunders
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Integrated Technology Services &
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IBM Australia
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"Rick Mack"
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[THIN] Re: AutoCad 2006 on Citrix!
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thin
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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