RE: Terminal Server and Developer images

[Steve Kelsay]

Yeah, I would like to do that. That is why I am asking for other
people's experience. The developers will be using a VPN to connect, then
the management wants to use terminal services to advertise the various
development packages and code archiving software. I think a virtual
desktop or other VM solution would be better, but I have no experience
with these in a remote development environment either. We do use Vmware
extensively. 

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 8:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Terminal Server and Developer images

 

 

Alternatives? Give your developers a virtualised development environment
to use? They could either run VMs on their local workstations, or
connect to VMs running on a central set of servers (or some combination
thereof). 

 

That would allow you to completely isolate your production environment
from test/dev/UAT environments, yet allow you to have exact replicas of
production in each of your other environments.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2008 12:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Terminal Server and Developer images

 

 

That pretty much says it. My management wants to create a server with
developer software on it, and have developers from across the country
remote in and all use the terminal server to develop systems.
 
Has anyone tried this with developer software? Microsoft has, in the
past, indicated that multiple users on their development software is not
a good idea and they did not support it. 
 
Any ideas on alternatives?









 










 
 










 










 
 
 
 
 


 

 










 










 
 










 










 
 
 
 


 

 










 










 
 
 


 

 










 
 


 

 





 


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Re: Terminal Server and Developer images

[Jeffrey Showen]

Greetings all and Happy New Year!

I am new to your forum and have just been reading the threads at this point
so I may have missed something here but have you considered using VMware Lab
Manager?  VMware Lab Manager is optimized for use across the software
development spectrum and provides functionality like reduced lab cap-ex and
lower op-ex (as with most/all VMware virtualization), acceleration of the
development cycle, improved software quality, and flexible, secure
outsourcing for multiple remote developer desktops.  We are not using it,
but I went to a mini-seminar on Lab Manager earlier this year and it would
really improve our software development process - particularly in the area
of fixing difficult to reproduce bugs.  As always (it seems), the ROI on IT
enablers like this can be difficult to get management to grasp so we press
on and do the best we can without it for now.  If you have allocated budget
for your development lab, this tool could be of great value in modernizing
your software development efforts and in creating an efficient
development process.

Cheers,

Jeff

On Dec 31, 2007 8:52 AM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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RE: Terminal Server and Developer images

[Ken Schaefer]

Alternatives? Give your developers a virtualised development environment to 
use? They could either run VMs on their local workstations, or connect to VMs 
running on a central set of servers (or some combination thereof).

That would allow you to completely isolate your production environment from 
test/dev/UAT environments, yet allow you to have exact replicas of production 
in each of your other environments.

Cheers
Ken

From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2008 12:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Terminal Server and Developer images



That pretty much says it. My management wants to create a server with developer 
software on it, and have developers from across the country remote in and all 
use the terminal server to develop systems.



Has anyone tried this with developer software? Microsoft has, in the past, 
indicated that multiple users on their development software is not a good idea 
and they did not support it.



Any ideas on alternatives?
































































































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Terminal Server and Developer images

[Steve Kelsay]

That pretty much says it. My management wants to create a server with
developer software on it, and have developers from across the country
remote in and all use the terminal server to develop systems.
 
Has anyone tried this with developer software? Microsoft has, in the
past, indicated that multiple users on their development software is not
a good idea and they did not support it. 
 
Any ideas on alternatives?









 
 
 


 

 










 
 


 

 





 


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