[THIN] Re: There goes the Neighborhood? what the?
- From: "Holley, Mark" <Holley@xxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:10:22 -0500
Good points Joe....one offs are harder to manage.
Correct me if I am wrong (and I may be) but you can't automatically push
an Icon to the desktop from WI can you?
The old days of full desktops can not be totally gone yet...How do you
do it now? I guess desktop manager does this a different way?
I used to create a custom connection on the thin client that auto
launched for users to get to the server desktop. Worked great...and kept
everything neatly on the server side.
Mark Holley
Technology Engineering & Deployment Group
City of Jacksonville
Holley@xxxxxxx
904-255-8133
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:47 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: There goes the Neighborhood? what the?
That's a good point, if you need a custom connection you can always just
create it in the console and publish it via WI!
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85266
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Shonk
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:27 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: There goes the Neighborhood? what the?
The problem with PN is the configuration and management of it is soooo
decentralized that Admins become paralyzed when it comes time to
upgrade/migrate their farms. Now they have to consider all the one off
configurations and send some out to fix them.
If you don't want to use PNA (because of file associations) then simply
use WI. WI in a sense replace PN, the only thing you lose is the
ability to create custom connects (which is not necessarily a bad
thing). For troubleshooting purposes, you could always create a custom
.ica or use a third-party tool.
FYI, with WI you can create shortcuts to the applications on the
desktop/startmenu
Joe
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Holley, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:31 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: There goes the Neighborhood? what the?
I worry that we will lose versatility. In a complex environment the CPN
can be used in a whole slew of different ways. Heck I have even used to
create thin PCs until their hardware dies by making the citrix client
the shell.
What if "every" user doesn't work in your Citrix environment the same
way? For example...I have one department that uses the PNagent for all
apps...then I have others that use the CPN for "one" app. However they
all use Web interface from home and require Office. If I install the
PNagnet on the local pcs of that department that only runs one
app...well...all of a sudden Pnagent reassociates those peoples local
files to run from Citrix.
I could create multiple office icons that change the associations but to
me it is way easier to publish office globally and use the pnagent for
dedicated departments only.
There are more examples.... What about the "custom ICA" connections?
Does no one use this? Sometimes a nice way to cover the "one off"
customer is to create a client side setting.
I know that without the versatility of CPN that some customers would
never have agreed to run an app on Citrix at all.
I may be speaking from an antique view point and need to move on...who
knows. I need more ways to run Citrix not less.
Mark Holley
Technology Engineering & Deployment Group
City of Jacksonville
Holley@xxxxxxx
904-255-8133
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chad Schneider (IT)
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:00 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: There goes the Neighborhood? what the?
If configured properly, it can then use the failover/secondary WI server
listed.
>>> On 1/13/2009 at 9:38 AM, <bcoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>i am surprised this has taken this long to happen. I stopped using PN
back when the PNAgent came out. The few times I have used it since
then, I have found it annoying and cumbersome. Good Riddance.
It looks like this service is dependent on Web Interface - I wonder what
it does if WI is down?
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