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I haven't tried it as a bootable app, but I think it supports that. Jeff On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Oliver Marshall < oliver.marsh...@g2support.com> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a bootable burnin apply that we can run overnight to > load test disks, ram, gfx etc on failing machines? > > Olly > > Not sent from an iPhone... > ----- Original Message ----- > From:"James Rankin" <kz2...@googlemail.com> > To:"NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Sent:20/07/2010 10:42 > Subject:Re: Roaming Profile Management (Was: Roaming Profile Servers) > > > > In a word.....price. AppSense is fantastic, but gratuitously expensive for > us. They don't do non-profit discounts either. But managing profiles > (particularly mandatory ones) with it is an absolute dream. You archive out > registry settings to separate files for each application, so, for example, > if Outlook goes west, just delete the files that provide Outlook settings > and you're good. There's also the control feature that lets you "block" any > buttons or keystrokes, you can "self-heal" registry settings or processes, > and perform any amount of triggered execution of files, drive mappings, > printer mappings and stuff like that. Version 8 is even better, as it can do > lots of other stuff such as map certain drives when applications are > launched, rather than do it all at logon and drag out the login process. And > that's not counting the application management and performance management > agents as well, which both did an excellent job. > > CPM is obviously much cheaper for us, but I was actually quite impressed > with it. It seems to leave out most of the profile bloat and just lets you > specify files, folders and Registry settings manually if you find they are > being lost when the profile is saved. It also lets you specify a "base" > profile for each user, and can optionally override any local or > domain-defined profiles that already exist. I still get odd profile issues, > but nowhere near as many as with standard Windows profiles. However, the > stuff we lost with AppSense means that we've had to vastly increase the > amount of GPOs and Citrix policies that we use, so we still have a bit of a > convoluted logon. > > In a nutshell, if you can afford it, go with AppSense. It's an "everything > under one roof" solution, and some of the things you can do with it are > brilliant. For instance, if we restarted the Exchange information Store > during the day (which we don't do often, to be fair) we used to get about a > hundred phone calls from users who had noticed the "disconnected" message in > Outlook's status bar. With AppSense, I actually hid the button from the > users' interface, and hey presto! no more phone calls. > > Feel free to fire me any questions off-list if you want. > > Cheers, > > On 19 July 2010 20:48, Sean Martin <seanmarti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For James Rankin >> >> James, >> >> You mentioned switching from AppSense to CPM. Can you elaborate on why you >> made the switch? We're currently looking at both CPM and AppSense and based >> solely on Citrix Consulting's feedback, we are leaning towards AppSense >> because they indicated it may be easier to manage in our environment. We >> have yet to evaluate the product for ourselves. We have a fairly large >> Citrix environment (140 servers split between 8 application silos) and have >> been dealing with a wide variety of profile issues for awhile. >> >> Any feedback you can provide would be appreciated. >> >> - Sean >> >> >> ======================================= >> >> I've been through the hell of Windows roaming profiles. We used AppSense >> with mandatory profiles which was vastly better, we have now moved on to >> using Citrix Profile Management (which integrates nicely as it uses GPOs to >> deploy) and it is much better than Windows profile handling. In fact, I'd go >> so far as to say MS could learn a lot about profile handling by looking at >> CPM. We haven't had more than two corrupted profiles since we went live >> three months ago. In the windws-onlydays, we'd get that many per day. >> - Show quoted text - >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' 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