Do you find View any good? I ran a trial of it and was very disappointed. Our remote access is done via Citrix. We have Citrix Receiver (aka Citrix Client) for Windows, Windows Mobile, Iphone, Ipad, Blackberry, Android, Samsung Galaxy, various flavours of thin clients, Macs and Linux systems. We are just working on configuring a Merchandising Server with the Access Gateway to try and provide updates to clients connecting from outside the network, but this is proving to be the tricky bit. Users hook up to their virtual desktop or XenApp session or app list through the receiver and the "self-service" plugin, and can then customise the appearance of their application shortcuts. The large array of consumer devices we can try and offer support to is proving quite popular with the "BYOC" generation. Not sure how much of a security exposure this gives us however.
On 12 May 2011 14:10, N Parr <npar...@mortonind.com> wrote: > We are planning on expanding our View environment to allow users to > connect from outside the corporate network. We put it in place last year as > a remote access solution for a warehouse with a slow DSL connection and 3-4 > pc's. Our SQL based ERP worked ok over the DSL but it was rather slow. > Since we already had the Virtual environment, and staff knowledgeable about > Vmware, we bought the View starter package for 2k and were up in running in > a day. There is now an official VMware View client for the ipad and I'm > told one in beta for Android. We are going to set up the View connection > Broker in a DMZ which will allow users to connect right to their View (or > physical) desktop without first having to create any kind of VPN > connection. And they will be able to pick their device of choice in the > near future to do so. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:56 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Contingency For Home Workers > > Just looking for some thoughts/feedback on what others are doing. > > > > We have a number of home workers who have remote access capability based > around Oracle’s Secure Global Desktop (a Tarantella WebTop derivative) and > RSA SecurID token technology. The setup is ideal: we give the users a > SecurID token and they use their own home broadband connection and hardware > (PC/Laptop) to access the company systems. > > > > However we had a scenario over last weekend whereby one home worker decided > to upgrade to Internet Explorer 9 and yes you’ve guessed it Oracle’s Secure > Global Desktop stopped working due to Java issues. I’ve now been asked to > come up with a “cost effective” contingency plan should such a situation > arise again. My initial thoughts would be to get the users to use Firefox or > Safari instead of IE. 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