[THIN] Re: GPO on the Citrix farm/Home Directory GPO
- From: "Ron Jameson" <rjameson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:10:46 -0600
Joe - reason we are not currently using Citrix on the login box is
because it is already in use as a plain TS box for 30+ users and loaded
with 20+ accessible programs - thus cannot change the whole setup to
citrix desktop yet.
We only just added the citrix to publish some intensive accounting apps
from an APP server so as not to continue to bog down the main TS which
it was doing. In trying to insure efficient roaming items, I was going
to look into if the home directory should also be done via the GPO and
routed to a network share.
We currently reroute the desktop/start menu to a network share for all
users as well as each users document folder. Roaming profiles are also
located on a network share with local temp profiles enabled. My
understanding is the home directory can be set to a share to prevent
that portion (app settings) from moving with the profile - hence my
question if this is good/bad indifferent.
Not using PNAgent - had problems with it running on the login TS so
reverted to PN only for each user and I copy the .ini files for each
users with the citrix info needed. Crude but had to do this until after
tax season where we have more time to debug.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Shonk
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 7:48 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: GPO on the Citrix farm/Home Directory GPO
I'm not really understanding your environment... or perhaps the
reasoning for several things:
Why is the Desktop just TS2003 with no citrix when you already have
citrix running for other servers? It doesn't cost anything more to
manage the front end desktop with Citrix.
You are redirecting the My Document directory by the home drive is
local?
This doesn't make sense... Wouldn't you want the My Document's link
redirected to the user's home drive? Home drives should be on a network
share, not local as a user would not be able to access their files if
they roam from server to server...
Are you using PNAgent to publish the Citrix apps?
Is there a particular reason the applications are siloed? For a small
farm, is there a need to have a multi-tier setup?
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ron Jameson
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 1:47 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] GPO on the Citrix farm/Home Directory GPO
I have a question regarding the start of a Citrix farm of App servers
that publish the app only -
Users login to a plain 2003 TS (no citrix) to get to their session
desktop and use the published apps from there that reside on the citrix.
We have a GPO on the TS machine that locks down and controls whomever
logs into it but as we now have 2 citrix app servers - should we be
using the same GPO (i.e. put the 2 citrix boxes in the same server OU as
the TS) on this being it only publishes programs?
Second - how beneficial is routing home directories in this setup (50
users on a LAN)? I always redirect the MyDoc folders & TS profiles via
GPO to a network share but never the home directory. Is this really
needed now that we have the login TS & 2 citrix app servers? If this is
better to have a single place for application settings in the users home
directory (as opposed to having the roaming profile send it around from
server to server), it wants to map a drive letter to it.....can I just
hide this letter in my GPO or does the system need the physical letter
as the user log's in?
Thanks for the help. This is week 3 in our first deployment of the
citrix farm whereas we normally work with TS2003 servers. Already
running fine on the first server and just added the second server to the
farm for LB.
Regards....Ron Jameson @ Hamlin Technologies
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