I'd like to see the hack for decreasing the size of rdp packets...Does it have to do with disabling virtual channels (or stripping them out)? Does it work on 2k3 just as well? -Mark=20 -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Malczewski Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:22 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix VS Terminal services, what's the difference ? Unfortunately, I am rather unfamiliar with the term "application publishing"... I'm not certain about 2003, but I do know that 2000 (base components) does not offer the ability to publish applications to a web page (ActiveX) like Citrix does.. It's just a strict desktop replacement. Is this what you were referring to? Like I said before, with a combination of VBScript, freeware tools (like TSCmd.exe), and GPO's, I have my environment almost totally automated, and very, very problem free. Users get the apps I want them to have, and ONLY the apps I want them to have. Only once in two years (knock on wood) have I had a user figure a way around the way things were set up, and it was a stupid configuration mistake on my part that was overlooked during the build process. I have a few hundred machines running Windows 95 here, but I edited sys.ini so that instead of launching explorer.exe, it launched mstsc.exe as the shell, so they go straight into terminal services (just like a WYSE terminal) and the users didn't even realize what had happened. I built the farm, installed everything, tested the hell out of it, and then over the weekend I make the PC techs come in and reconfigure all the desktops. Monday morning, everything was seamless, and away we went, and have never looked back. That was over two years ago now. With this strategy, myself and two other engineers got a 500 seat call center going from pouring the concrete (no lie -- they were doing this the day we arrived to start building servers) to making the first calls in 18 days. That site, however, is all WYSE terminals (much cheaper than a PC, and there was no old equipment to re-use). One thing to watch out for -- because of the larger session size on the wire (48k for RDP vs. 16k for ICA) you're going to have network issues. We sure did. People look at me funny when I tell them I can realistically handle up to 110 simultaneous users per server on a dual P3 1133 with 4GB RAM and 100BaseT NICs.. I spent almost a solid week on the phone with Microsoft PSS before I finally got one of the guys on the phone who was a co-author of the Clustering MCSE exam, and he told me of a little trick to use to squeeze more bandwidth. If anyone is interested in this, let me know, and I'll post the solution. It's kind of long, and if no one wants to see it, then.. lol -----Original Message----- From: Jason Patten [mailto:pattenj@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:09 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix VS Terminal services, what's the difference ? I'm actually in this debate right now. We currently use MF 1.8 on our NT4 servers, and I have been tasked with setting up the feasibility of going with Straight 2003 Server without Citrix. And I honestly don't think it will go that well. We currently have about 12 app servers offering a variety of Apps, with a little over 1000 client workstations scattered across the U.S. in hotels and businesses. They run everything from windows 95! To WinXP pro. I don't relish the idea of trying to convert them all from Citrix to the Remote desktop client. I think we are best staying with citrix, if for nothing else, Application publishing, or does 2003 server do that and I am just missing it? Jason -----Original Message----- From: Claudio Rodrigues [mailto:crodrigues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:03 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix VS Terminal services, what's the difference?=20 Everyone does DNS Round Robin. They are just shy to admit in public what they did. :-) -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Oglesby Sent: May 21, 2004 12:52 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix VS Terminal services, what's the difference?=3D20 Ok, c'mon Claudio. DNS round robin!!!!!! LOL. Just had to do that. Ron Oglesby Senior Technical Architect Microsoft MVP - Windows Server =3D20 RapidApp, Chicago Mobile 815 325-7618 Office 312 372-7188 e-mail roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx =3D20 -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Claudio Rodrigues Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:38 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix VS Terminal services, what's the difference?=3D20 Terminal Services can do load balancing. Windows 2003 has built-in NLB on Server. 2000 can do with Advanced Server. It is not resource based though. Depending on the environment (Ron will kill me after this sentence) you can even use DNS Round Robin - the cheap-o-matic(tm) solution. Or use WTSGateway or WTSGateway Pro. Most people usually say Citrix has everything centralized, enterprise features bla bla bla. My experience tells me that when you go to BIG environments, they already have a tool to monitor resources (TNG, Tivoli, NetIQ, etc) that are 1000 times better than RMS (that is a piece of crap and like Wordstar 2000 was one of the few products in history that got 1000 worse on version 2.0 than on 1.0). For deploying apps and so on these places use something like Altiris, SMS etc, again, much better than IMS on Citrix. So at the end these big corporations pay for MetaFrame Xpe but at the end they would need Xpa only. So I tend to disagree Citrix has all the corporate things built-in. It has if you are a cheapo corporation. If you are really after the top stuff you will never use RMS/IMS. Can TS do everything like Citrix? Well depends on the environment. For small companies, for sure. For medium, it depends. That is why people like me, Ron and Brian have a job. :-) -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Van Gerpen Sent: May 20, 2004 5:32 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Citrix VS Terminal services, what's the = difference?=3D3D20 I administrate Windows 2000 network and Citrix Medaframe XP. Looking at CO$T$ and maintenance associated with Citrix I'm considering scrapping Citrix and going with a Terminal services RDP environment. All my clients are WinXP and Wyse terminals (RDP). The only down side I know is the load balancing Citrix can do, and Terminal services cannot. What do you think the advantages and disadvantages are between RDP & ICA?=3D3D20 Is Terminal services as functional as Citrix? 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