[THIN] Re: Streamed Apps and Roaming Profiles

  • From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:19:36 -0600

This helps.  i'm just starting to plan this and get my head around the
underpinnings of  streaming things.  I'm extremely lazy so streaming is
really appealing to me.  I'll try and capture some of this with regmon if I
can.

thanks!

Greg

On Nov 19, 2007 1:12 PM, TSguy92 Lan <tsguy92@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > do registry settings created by a streamed app stay isolated and/or roam
> > with a user?
>
> When an app is streamed to a user, the HKCU and HKLM values for that
> app are stored under the user's HKCU that's running the streamed app.
> In particular under:
>
> HKCU\software\citrix\RadeCache\*package ID*
>
> These packages match up with the folders created under:
>
> C:\documents and settings\%userprofile%\Application
> Data\Citrix\RadeCache\*package ID*
>
> If you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to redeploy a
> previously streamed application with new pre-defined defaults for HKCU
> registry values (for instance), in my experiance so far, you would
> need to remove the *package ID* data from both the locations listed
> above at the client machine to have the new defaults deployed.
>
> As for whether or not Outlook 2007 will trash the profiles you have
> for Outlook 2003, I couldn't say for certain. I'm still a bit unclear
> as to how much streamed applications interact with locally installed
> componants. But certainly there is some tie in at some point.
>
> In my case, I was testing out a streamed copy of outlook 2003 to a
> machine that already had office 2003 installed (and in particular the
> local outlook 2003 install is tied to a 3rd party software with our
> phone system). The streamed copy of outlook 2003 had not been packaged
> to be tied to our 3rd party phone software. Upon launching the
> streamed outlook 2003 at the desktop, the 3rd party phone software
> tried to auto-launch and interact with the streamed outlook. (which it
> couldn't quite do..).
>
> So there is some level of local interaction with streamed apps, but to
> the extent that you're asking . . it sounds to me like you need to do
> some play testing with non-production systems ;).
>
> HTH
>
> Lan
>
> On Nov 19, 2007 8:30 AM, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Some of you who are a little deeper into application streaming than I am
> may
> > be able to answer this. I have only streamed two apps and have been very
> > impressed with it.  I am going to have to start doing a lot more
> streaming.
> >
> > do registry settings created by a streamed app stay isolated and/or roam
> > with a user?
> >
> > Just wondering if I stream Outlook 2007 for testing, will it trash a
> users
> > current Outlook 2003 settings and will those Outlook 2007 settings
> follow
> > them around session to session or have to be recreated each time it gets
> > launched.
> >
> > Mainly I don't want to trash their existing mail profile and I also
> don't
> > want them to have to re-create those settings each time they log in.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Greg
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