I can concur that I have seen some articles from Citrix recommending using App-V. I can certainly say that I could never get MS Office to run well on the Citrix Streaming Profiler, but I'm assuming that seeing as though App-V is lately an MS product, then Office will a) run well, b) be supported, and c) be documented somewhere
On 5 May 2010 16:18, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: > Webster are you saying use App-V instead of Citrix streaming? I'll need to > keep that in mind for XenDesktop when I roll that out. > > >>> "Webster" <carlwebs...@gmail.com> 5/5/2010 10:44 AM >>> > > Citrix now recommends using App-V with XenApp 6. I would recommend going > in that direction. I will be as soon as I can find some lab time that is > not spent writing articles. Several of the CTPs are also App-V MVPs. > > > > > > > > Carl Webster > > Citrix Technology Professional > > http://dabcc.com/Webster > > > > > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Subject:* Virtualizing applications > > > > We are in the process of migrating our Citrix 4.5 x86 Windows 2003 R2 farm > to a brand new, Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6 x64 environment. All is going > swimmingly well...until a couple of departments remind us that they have > some old apps that are vitally important to them they'd like including in > the new deployment. All this after they forgot to mention it in the initial > systems analysis and only two days before go-live....the lack of > communication is an issue I'm not looking for advice on. > > > The issue I am concerned with is how to get these apps into the new > environment. Naturally, they won't install on x64 servers or 2008. Because > we're using XenApp 6 we can't join either MPS 4.5 or XenApp 5 servers to the > farm, which would have been handy as we could have built an x86 server and > published these apps on it. So I thought I'd fire up another server, install > the Citrix Streaming Profiler and virtualize them as streamed applications > to the new environment. No dice there either. The first of these problem > apps uses a huge set of patches that have to be deployed through a > vendor-specific patching tool, and this causes the profiler to crash. Same > with the second app - it uses some strange installer procedures and the > profiler fails when running it. So I am kind of at a dead end. > > The only other thing I can think of is using App-V, but I'm worried that > this will a) put me back a few days as I learn how to use it, and b) could > possibly fail in the same way as the Citrix Profiler solution. There's also > the problem of learning how to integrate XenApp 6 and App-V, which I am sure > can be done but which I have no experience of. Either way, it seems a bit > tricky. > > Does anyone else have any bright ideas that might help out? Could I use RDP > connections to a virtual x86 server with these apps on and use Terminal > Services to "publish" applications in the same way as Citrix does, without > the hassle of the incompatible farms in Citrix? Or is there some better way > of virtualizing application access, or indeed any other way I could achieve > this in the small timeframe I have been left with? All ideas, hints, tips > and suggestions are gratefully accepted. > > > > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
