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SVS within Citrix or Terminal Services
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Submitted by QuietLeni on 10 December, 2007 - 19:08.

Q:
QuietLeni asked, "I have been asked, by several clients, if they can use SVS on their Citrix Servers or Terminal Services servers to include various packages where they have problems with applications not co-existing properly. I have been quite cagey about this and suggested that if they want to try, I'm not stopping them, but I want to know the truth."

A:
Hey QuietLeni, neither Citrix Presentation Server (CPS) nor Windows Terminal Services (WTS) are currently supported with with the current release of SVS (2.1). However, the next release (2.5) adds support for CPS 4.x and WTS on 2003 and 2008. With 2.5, you should be able to what you describe. I suggest creating an account on the Altiris Beta Portal, http://beta.altiris.com, so that you will get a notification when the SVS 2.5 beta is available (which will be after the holidays, target date not yet set).

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dvs4sbc

Submitted by wizard1970 on 11 December, 2007 - 06:29.

Mayby this is what you are looking for?
dvs4sbc is a product for server based computing.

http://www.deltaisis.nl

Thanks. Just as I thought...

Submitted by QuietLeni on 11 December, 2007 - 16:04.

Thanks for your answer. See, I have been wondering about this for a long time, as I had seen this post:

http://juice.altiris.com/node/2603

In there, the user seems to be using SVS to run Adobe CS3 on a Terminal Server.

I was wondering if this developer was doing something legal, OR they are getting away with it!

I prefer to give categorically correct and supported answers.

Thanks for that.

Any ideas about when 2.5 will go Gold (if all goes well)? I have clients who are looking to do exactly this.

SVS on a TS

Submitted by wizard1970 on 12 December, 2007 - 05:27.

Hello QuietLeni,

The user is erikw. I think he is working for the company Deltaisis in The Netherlands. In the article you pointing at, you see a logo dvs4sbc. It seems to be legal what he is doing.

I have no idea when 2.5 will go gold.

Of course its legal...

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Submitted by Scott Jones on 12 December, 2007 - 18:16.

SVS is available now on terminal servers, but only when used in conjunction with partner solutions from DeltaISIS, Scense, AppSense and others. For their customers, we already offer a user-based "SVS for Terminal Servers" license option.

The difference in 2.5 is that the support will be native in the SVS product, supported by Symantec, with no partner solution mandatory (tho certainly all of the partners will still bring additional value to the table with their added functionality).

Scott Jones
Product Manager
Altiris, Inc.
Now Part of Symantec

Yes DVS4SBC is legal.

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Submitted by erikw on 13 December, 2007 - 11:31.

QuietLeni,

DVS4SBC is a service that has the capability to transform a standard VSA package into a Multiuser capable VSA.
The VSA is also Multi OS compatibel.
It will run in SVS version 2.0 and higher on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003.
The software is tested with over 7000 packages, and runs now in company's in the US, Europe and Australia. Our current customers are very satisfied.
Also DeltaISIS managed to create a SVS version that runs in Windows 2003 Enterprise server 64Bits, and i my self run it in a Vista Ultimate X64 version.
First tests with this are vary satisfying.
DVS4X64 as the codename now is can handle 64 bit applikations.
We also managed to run 32 bit x86 software on the 64bit platform. DVSx64 recognizes it and makes the package 64 bit enabled.
More information about DVS4SBC can be found on: www.dvs4sbc.com
Fore more information you can alway's email me.

Regards
Erik
www.svs4u.nl

SVS 2.5 - One Format, With Backward Compatibility

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Submitted by Scott Jones on 12 December, 2007 - 19:31.

This FAQ answer prompted two more FAQ's: Will my existing VSP's work on Citrix when 2.5 ships? Also: Will I need two packages for each app in SVS 2.5, one for single-user machines and one for my terminal servers?

Here are two mandatory requirements for SVS 2.5:

1) SVS 2.5 will allow normal use of VSP's created with earlier shipping versions of SVS. Also, VSP's created with SVS 2.5 can be used normally with SVS 2.1.

2) One layer format will be used on both single-user clients and on terminal servers. That is, customers must be able to build one .vsa file (and software vendors must be able to build one .vra file) that can be delivered to either standard Windows or to CPS/WTS.

So the answer is yes, your existing VSP's will work with SVS 2.5; and no, you will not need two different packages if you are delivering an app to both single-user machines and to terminal servers.

Scott Jones
Product Manager
Altiris, Inc.
Now Part of Symantec

WTS and Fast User Switching in SVS 2.5

Submitted by surfschnell on 27 December, 2007 - 11:19.

Will SVS 2.5 support Fast User Switching in Win XP?
And will that feature be free for personal use?

Fast User Switching is poor mans multiuser environment. The underlying technology is very similar to WTS. So from a technical point there shouldn't be a problem.

What are the other features of SVS 2.5?

Timeline update?

Submitted by RSnell on 29 April, 2008 - 09:45.

I've been setting quietly waiting to hear more about the possible introduction of the 2.5 release for TS... but haven't seen anything.

Have I missed it? Haven't even seen a notice for beta.

Was wondering if you have any further updates available regarding timelines for the potential release (in beta or to the market)?

Thanks,
Rob

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