Yes. To rip-off a commercial from years ago, "When Jim K speaks, people listen". adam "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@thinclien t.net> To Sent by: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> thin-bounce@freel cc ists.org Subject [THIN] Re: Tell us What New 03/09/2007 11:46 features do you want in Terminal AM Services? Please respond to thin@xxxxxxxxxxxx g If Jim told you to jump off a cliff would you do it? J Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Beckett, William (Bill) Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:12 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? Just because Jim said so...I'm going out to listen! From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:42 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? If you want to take it a step further listen to the Adence podcast Brian has over on his site. http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?id=677 This is a cool acquisition by Citrix. So instead of using profiles etc. down to a machine, you have a networked ISO of a desktop and the profiles are pulled in as you download the needed portions of the ISO to run the OS and released when you log out. You can have literally hundreds of users using the same ISO file! This is a must listen! Jim On 3/9/07, Steve Greenberg <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: This is a great example and an excellent question. If you are using session sharing these apps actually use the same profile so you won't have a contention. However, let's assume they don't. If profiles were database/logic drive you could record all of these changes and apply rules. Let's say you have Outlook, Word and an accounting application. Outlook closes first, but you change a rule setting. That change is written to the database. Then Word closes and wants to write some new preference settings, these are written to the database. Then the accounting app closes and wants to write a change to the view you created. The database would have all of these changes and you could apply them as you like. So, let's say you allow users to customize Outlook and Word but not the accounting app, the rule would say apply the Outlook and Word settings, but not the accounting app settings. Then the order would not matter! Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Beckett, William (Bill) Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:16 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? So how does that work exactly (DB driven profile)? What I find to be problematic is that you'll have users open up three different published apps. Each app is opening a session so if there are any profile related changes being made, (printer added for example), than the last one out is the saved profile. Any profile related changes in the first two sessions closed out are lost. How does the DB profile rectify? From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:04 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? Well, hate to restate the obvious, but profiles are the "legacy app" of TS environments. Someone mentioned a database driven profile and I have to agree that this is the way to go. Tricerat does it with their Simplify Suite and it makes perfect sense and is very effective. Flex profiles is a great tool, but something more integrated would be better. While we would like to see Citrix provide something, really it is an MS issue and MS ought to step up and make it happen. I guess though they would probably charge for it, or at least make you buy SQL licenses to use it!!! Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Beckett, William (Bill) Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:34 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? Ahahaha, boy I love Joe and his bluntness. However, I'm inclined to agree. The whole profile thing though....good luck with that one. From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:25 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Brian Madden' Subject: [THIN] Re: Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? Also, beg, pled whatever you have to do to keep Longhorn from looking and acting like Vista. The last thing I need is a dumbed down flashy server OS with all of the options I'm used to rearranged and difficult to find. Things like UAC should not be enable by default, only if the system administrator finds it necessary to annoy their users. Also, how about better vendor support at launch (or better compatibility with App)? I had spent several hours rebuilding VMs using Virtual PC because VMware Workstation 5.5.3 doesn't run on Vista. Joe From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:16 AM To: THIN; Brian Madden Subject: [THIN] Tell us What New features do you want in Terminal Services? Hi All, I will be off to Redmond and the Microsoft MVP Summit next week. Brian Madden has posted a synopsis and Microsoft wants to know what new features should be added to Terminal Services in Future releases. Please respond to the thread at http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?id=680 with your ideas. (PS I will be on a mission to meet Bill and get a pic with him, wish me luck) Thanks, -- Jim Kenzig Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services http://www.thinhelp.com Citrix Technology Professional Provision Networks VIP CEO The Kenzig Group http://www.kenzig.com Blog: http://www.techblink.com -- Jim Kenzig Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services http://www.thinhelp.com Citrix Technology Professional Provision Networks VIP CEO The Kenzig Group http://www.kenzig.com Blog: http://www.techblink.com SBC SITES ONLY GOOGLE SEARCH: http://www.F1U.com ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************