I did something similar - nothing clever, just a batch file that copied the executable from the server to the work stations
Laurie On 14 August 2017 at 15:46, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a general purpose "Loader" app that loads the .exe from the server > onto the local workstation in a pre-defined folder and runs it. This means > that updating the .exe on the server is simple as you are sure that it is > never open by anyone. In addition I can send the loader instructions to > unload the local .exe if there is a workstation server update due. It > unloads the local "exe" and sits waiting for a signal to upload the newer > updated .exe off the server. And it has saved hors of trouble finding out > who has the application open on the network. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 12 August 2017 03:02 > To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: VFP9SP2 apps on Citrix > > On 2017-08-11 14:55, Kevin J Cully wrote: > > We used Citrix at a healthcare company I worked at around 2005. > > Basically everyone came in to an office, just to telecommute into our > > hosted servers that was in a city 30 minutes north of our office. It > > was a valid approach to better securing workstations. > > > > I was doing a good bit if VFP9 at that time and there wasn't much (if > > anything) that I had to do to the application. I tended to make the > > buttons bigger because with the remote-aspect of running the app, the > > double+clicks didn't always "take". We called it "having to > > triple+click" ... or ... "click it like you mean it!" It had more to > > do with Windows and the nature of following the mouse movement from > > local to remote. > > > > They had portable profiles however. They didn't wipe the image as > > there were valid reasons that people would have customized desktops > > and customized software installations, even if the Windows was remote. > > > > This approach saved us on PC purchases as well. We could buy pretty > > minimal PCs as the real horsepower was in the Citrix VM'd PCs. > > > > Hth, > > Kevin > > > Thanks for sharing that, Kevin. If you had to design an app for the "wipe > daily" scenario, how would you do it? Personally, I think Andy Kramek's > idea (years ago!) of using meta-data that had code in memo/text fields may > work well for this scenario. Andy's approach may not have been good for > source code control (as per one detractor), but the idea of self-updating > easily was on-point, imo. > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAMvTR9cu7OUwTf4gS-9+8ei=4herojnswod8sfcdckkucxl...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
