The organisation wants users to work from a published desktop. The main reason for this is to allow for the use of thin clients at some point in the future.
I wanted to look into using PNA on the server desktop and allowing users to launch published apps from the start menu. To make that clearer - I'd like to have for example, 5 servers with a published desktop only, launching apps from another 10 servers using the PNA with pass through.
At the moment I can log on to a published desktop and launch other published apps OK. What I'd like to know is how I might go about having a different set of apps available when the user is on a published desktop. If I can't do this, then I have no way of stopping them launching the individual apps from their own PCs.
Is there any way I can achieve this:
User logs onto their desktop PC and see's only one published app, a server desktop.
After logging onto the published desktop, the start menu is populated with the users apps from PNA.
Thanks for any ideas.
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The reason is that the organisation only wants users to work from the published desktop. If they were to access published apps within that desktop, those apps would also be available on their own desktops, they just wouldnt bother using the published desktop if the apps could be launched on their own PCs.
Thanks for replying, hope that clears it up. I'm beginning to think it's not possible.
Best Practice would be to Install all the applications the user needs on the "Desktop" Citrix Server - of course in real life this doesn't always work due to specific application requirements (one wants MDAC2.7 one 2.8, One needs Oracle 9, other Oracle 8 only.).
So to answer your question, yes it can be done, publish Desktop on Server A - install the PNagent on Server configured to point to your farm, when the user logs in the PNagent will populate their desktop/start menu with all the published apps on the other servers.
To keep it clean (ie you don't want users launching all their published apps on their desktop - bypassing the published desktop all together) you can use the PN client to launch the published desktop when the user logs into the workstation using a startup entry and command line switches or a login script.
But I would still suggest you try and install as many applications as you can on this server so that way when the user launches say MS Office, it will launch on Server A instead of jumping to a different server.
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by: nprignanoPosted on 2009-03-19 at 08:04:15ID: 23930319
I am not understanding why you need to have a different set of apps available when users log into the published desktop vs. the desktop PC. Can you clarify that?
Are you asking how to remove, for example, the Citrix folder from the Start Menu for users that log into a published desktop on a server? Or are you asking how to provide one set of published apps to a user when they log into a published desktop and a different set of apps when they log on from a desktop PC?