[THIN] One of the Apps running on Citrix has no install program

  • From: Steve Parr <sparr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:04:13 -0500

The vendor is lazy and thinks it is not required. They give our Apps group
the program files and they have been copying to workstations and just
running that way. Before letting this run on Citrix would like to take a
crack at creating an install for this
for the purpose of being able to install in change user /install mode so
things get a proper chance to be set up in the mutiuser environment that
Citrix\TS is. What things should I look for to know that the install program
will do what it ideally should for TS\Citrix? I have used an installer
program put out by Caphypon called Advanced Installer. Have run this and
created an .msi package that comes out to about 600 mbs - the program files
prior to being compressed into CAB files is at 1.2 Gbs. Seems to work but
not tested under load yet. According to the vendor there are up to 400
.exe's and many other supporting files and is reason program files so large
in size. This amazes me a bit as the architecture on the back end is MS SQL
so I do not see the need to be so fat on the client but maybe I just have
not been around long enough. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 
Steve Parr 
Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing Ltd.


 

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