Terminal Services Stealing Citrix Licenses

[johnisotank]

Hi all.

can anyone help with this please..

We are using Citrix XenApp 5.0 on a Win2003 server.

We have 10 TS licenses and 5 citrix Licenses.

5 of our users only need the limited functionality that TS provides and the other 5 will use citrix (eventually).

Problem is that when our normal users login into TS, Citrix loses a license so if we kept on going down this route we would need a citrix license for every user.

Also, since the citrix install, TS Admin no longer opens - it just sits minimized until you crash out of it.

Any advice at all is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
John

 

[dberg35]

While I not that familiar with Citrix I can tell you that it acts the same as TS which is what I use here. Why not just go straight to Citrix?

 

[johnisotank]

Hi,thanks for the reply

simply the cost. eventually we will have 30 remote users and only 5 need the functionality of Citrix.

We don't (and feel we shouldn't) have to buy 30 citrix licenses.

 

[dberg35]

This I understand so what is Citrix doing the TS can't? I run a TS environment with about 100 users and Citrix when I looked at it would give me the same results but more cost.

 

[lb63640]

Just to chime in on the conversation, my company chose Citrix as their remote office solution when they ran into problems with TS2000 printer mapping issues.