[THIN] Re: Remote access and developers
- From: "Jim Kenzig" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:22:55 -0400
Have you looked at TSGateway in Server 2008 for remote access? They can then
rdp to a desktop on a TS or actual workstation set up for them. (don't know
how many you have to deal with)
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Michael Pardee <pardeemp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Apologies if this is a duplicate. I had an issue with my email account
> earlier.
>
> How is everyone handling remote access for their developers? Citrix has
> served us really well for the past 10 years and we will add our 10,000th
> concurrent user this year, but we have never been able to get the developers
> to play nicely in the Citrix world. They all want (need?) their own
> desktops and have always been able to justify elevated permissions. I would
> love to get them in Citrix, but for some apps that may be forcing a square
> peg in a round hole. We are getting ready to do some testing with a couple
> VDI solutions, but it is way too early to tell if that will work for them
> and I don't think we can bring up an environment fast enough to support
> hundreds of remote developers.
>
> There is always the tried and true vpn solution, but since implementing
> wi/csg years ago we have been eliminating vpn for client use and normally
> just use it for network to network connectivity these days.
>
> Here is a subset of some of the applications we have yet to host via Citrix
> today, but some of this may be because we never tried.
>
> Dreamweaver
> Photoshop
> SeeBeyond
> Visual Studio .Net
> Toad
>
> Thanks in advance everyone.
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Pardee
> http://blindsquirrel.org
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Jim Kenzig
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Presentation and Hosted Desktop
Virtualization
Citrix Technology Professional
Blog: http://www.techblink.com
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