[THIN] Re: Citrix Profile Management 4.0
- From: Magnus Hjorleifsson <magnus@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:18:29 -0500
Your best bet is to keep different profile based on bitness. I haven't tried it
with win 7 and 2008 but with 2003 and xp it caused problems
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 25, 2012, at 19:05, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> X86 and x64 are different spots in the registry anyway so it can coexist just
> fine. It all looks the same to the user in the end.
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> On Jan 25, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Harry Singh <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That's curious. The implication from your response would suggest that
>> deploying XA with XD is not recommended. It's curious since I've been told
>> the exact opposite.
>>
>> Installing all our applications onto the XD image is counter-intuitive and
>> inefficient. And buying Appsense is simply not going to happen.
>>
>> Thanks for your replies.
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 25, 2012, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Why would users be access the same application from two different
>> > platforms? Pick one, otherwise look into using appsense.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> > On Jan 25, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Harry Singh <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks Joe. That can certainly happen, but what happens when a user logs
>> > into XD then accesses applications which reside on XA? UserA logs into
>> > x86 Windows 7 desktop, opens up MS Word sitting on x64 XA server, I
>> > believe two profiles are being created and used simultaneously.
>> > So, if two profiles will be used, how would you properly setup system
>> > variables to accommodate this?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Xd and xa ad object should be in separate OUs. Just set up two GPOs. One
>> >> for each OU. Each GPO points to a different file location.
>> >> Joe
>> >>
>> >> Sent from my iPhone
>> >> On Jan 25, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Harry Singh <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm having a tough time understanding how to implement UPM 4.0 correctly
>> >> and hoping could help solve this puzzle.
>> >> I currently am piloting a XD 5.5 with XA 6.5 deployment. Windows 7
>> >> Professional (x86) desktops with apps hosted on XA 6.5. Now, there will
>> >> be users connecting to desktops on XD and users connecting solely to Apps
>> >> on XA 6.5. I'm not migrating any existing roaming profiles and my
>> >> confusion lies in the following:
>> >> 1XD 5.5 server with 2 XA 6.5 servers.
>> >> I have my profile store set to \\fileserver\ctxprofiles
>> >> Do i need to even worry about setting up a system environment variable on
>> >> the Desktop image and XA servers, such as %profver% If i do, as i suspect
>> >> because of the different bitness between the XD desktop (win 7 x86) and
>> >> servers (XD + XA being x64) what do i need to enter in for profile store
>> >> path ? More importantly, and the area of the most confusion, is what do i
>> >> enter inside the Variable Value, should i have to account for different
>> >> bitness, to make sure each is properly populated in the "v1 aka x86" and
>> >> "v2 aka x64" folders?
>> >> I may be over complicating this a bit, but real curious to know how to
>> >> properly setup PM for a Xendesktop environment with XA.
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Harry.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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