[THIN] Re: Profiles on Citrix
- From: "Angus Macdonald" <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:33:36 +0100
If you mean the financial cost, there isn't one. That's one of the reasons I
love Flex profiles!
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Toby
Sent: 18 May 2007 14:09
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Profiles on Citrix
Hi Angus
And you use Flex profiles? Is the cost based on per user?
T.
On 5/18/07, Angus Macdonald < Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've just done a quick "finger in the air" test with one of my servers and the
time from entering my password to the start button appearing is 5 secs on a
quiet server and 11 on a heavily loaded one. When we had standard roaming
profiles it could be anywhere up to 45 seconds for the same job. In this one
area, I'm happy with my servers.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:
thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Pardee
Sent: 18 May 2007 12:36
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Profiles on Citrix
Exactly. My goal is to provide 20 second logon and logoff performance for all
of our users. We are right about there. After shaking some bugs out with
Tricerat I think Simplify will fit the need. We were able to get Flex down
even faster, but I guess officially we cheated. Instead of telling Flex what
we wanted to "roam" for the user, we went the opposite route and told it to
grab everything except for certain keys. That's probably not the recommended
way, but the logos were unbelievably fast – less than 10 seconds at the time.
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From: Toby < toby.percival@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:23:46 +0100
To: < thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >
Subject: [THIN] Re: Profiles on Citrix
Thanks Michael, I will try the same. Anything to improve the mood of our
beloved users!
T.
On 5/18/07, Michael Pardee < <mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx>
pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We've been testing Tricerat's Simplify Profiles product and just ran in to the
same issue with the Internet Explorer Branding policy. What we've noticed is
that it may have something to do with the mandatory profile that we are using.
It was built from a system with IE, moved to a common network share, and then
locked down via permissions. Just for grins I copied that mandatory profile to
a test share and applied it to a few of us that are testing. I then opened up
the permissions to see if that made any difference and the "branding..." part
of the logon process flew by in a second or two. Haven't had a lot of time to
go back and figure all of this out yet, but I'm going to see if we can figure
out what pieces need updated in our mandatory profile for IE7, make the
changes, and then lock the profile down again.
Not sure if this is the same thing that is slowing you down, but it is what
seems to be causing it in our environment. Thanks for reminding me that I need
to dig in to this one again.
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From: Toby < toby.percival@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:38:33 +0100
To: < thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Profiles on Citrix
45 seconds is a long time. In fact, I have just timed logging in from a client
pc, using a mandatory profile, located on the DC, and it took 57 seconds. I
repeated the same test on multiple servers, and the time averaged 59 seconds.
0-7 seconds - applying personal settings, registry settings
8-40 seconds - applying internet explorer branding policy
40-42 - applying personal settings
43 - 59 secs - applying login scripts
System is PS4.5, Windows 2003 Server SP2, with IE7.
I believe IE7 is responsible for slowing the time down by 15 seconds or more. I
will investigate how I can improve the load time of the 'internet explorer
branding policy'.
On 5/18/07, Angus Macdonald < Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's hard to say with any certainty. Presumably your mandatory profile is being
dragged from a network location whereas our defaults are stored locally on each
server. Conversely, the flex profile loading takes a finite amount of time. I
wouldn't imagine you'd see a great performance increase with flex profiles. 45
secs sounds like a lot of time though. Can you guess how much of that is
profile loading and processing? In my (not considerable) experience, all sorts
of things can slow logins.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [
mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Toby
Sent: 18 May 2007 10:12
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Profiles on Citrix
Hi Angus,
As we are using 95% mandatory profiles, the only issue I have encountered is
performance. For example, a user logon takes approximately 45 seconds,
including login scripts etc.. Would you be able to guestimate how much time I
could save by using flex?
Thanks
T.
On 5/18/07, Angus Macdonald < Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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<mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
We had all sorts of profile troubles before went with flex profiles. Everybody
gets a default profile at login, which is then modified by loading the flex
component and a bit of Kix -scripting for particular groups. At logout the flex
settings are saved before the profile type is tweaked in the registry to make
it appear as a mandatory profile, ensuring it's dropped as the session closes.
Since starting down this route, our profile problems have vanished.
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Sent: 17 May 2007 21:08
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Subject: [THIN] Profiles on Citrix
Gentlemen:
Running PS 4.0 on Windows 2003 servers. About a dozen servers.
We've been using roaming profiles straight out of the box, MS box, for a while
now. They're ok but just the nature of the beast in how they work will cause
their fair share of problems. I know there are several alternatives out there,
flex profiles for one. Can anyone give me some feedback on your implementation
and results for any solution, be it flex profiles or some other alternative?
I've heard talk of some type of database or dynamic solution that sounded good.
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