Questions[citrix](server)

Currently have a client that has poor eyesight and needs everything on his screen larger than standard. The issue is when running a Citrix application [Xenapp], the mouse is not scaling properly.

His local PC is set for 150% scaling with the mouse pointer set to extra large.
The Citrix application server is set for 125% scaling, mouse set to extra large.

The mouse shrinks significantly when I move from local to a hosted session.

When I increase the scaling to 150% on the server, then the mouse size is fine [stays same local and hosted], however, all the fonts in his applications are now too large to work with.

I've tried different combinations of local, hosted, but the mouse just wont scale properly. So my thought was to edit the mouse pack, just increase the size by 30%, but this doesn't seems as easy as it sounds.
Open to nudges in the right direction.

The question here is straight-forward: how do I install TortoiseSVN on Citrix XenApp so that only specific people can see/use the program, without a 2nd group of people even seeing that the program exists?

Under Citrix's old MetaframeXP product, there was an option to install applications on a per-user basis. Normally, using the system's "Install Program" feature from the Applications control panel resulted in the Citrix server entering a specific mode that registered the installed program for all users. If you didn't use this mode, the program would install for the user account that was performing the installation only. This allowed the administrator to set up programs that could be used only by specific users; other users would not see the program, nor would they have the appropriate registry entries. Yes, you could see the installed files, but it was pretty much non-functional for other users.

With the XenApp environment, this is supposedly no longer an option. As it has been explained to me by the admin(s) heading up systems maintenance for our Citrix installs, programs installed in XenAppDesktop and used as a published desktop (not published app) will be visible to everyone on the server. And here lies the issue: TortoiseSVN installs a shell extension, and because of that, the extension will be visible to all users, not just developers or admins that need access to it. Our non-technical end-users will simply go bananas when they start calling about "some weird thing showing up when I click to look at files".

We are running XenApp on WS2003R2/64.

Before answering with something other than "this is how to do it with what you've got", please consider the following as well:

Yes, this is a business installation, which means licenses, etc.

No, switching off of Subversion is not an answer at this time. Yes, I am fully aware of the popularity of Git/Mercuriual/${Insert-Favorite-DVCS-Here} and how they are all a bazillion times better, will make my laundry whites whiter, save kittens and puppies, etc. etc. That is beside the point; the effort of migrating to a different system just to get around this issue is several times higher than just addressing the issue. So, no, switching the back-end is not an acceptable answer.

No, adding yet another (expensive) Citrix server just for developers is also out of the question. I don't set budgets, and I don't get to determine what money is spent where. Telling me to "Just add another server" is akin to me going to some country's starving population and saying "just eat more food". The resources available are fixed, so it's not an option.

Yes, having another cheap/free remote access solution that provides a Windows desktop as a hosted service may be considered. However, the cheapest solution I've found is still in the four-digit range, which is not something that I can talk to management about approving. Short version: if the cost of setting up a secondary remote Windows desktop exceeds $25/seat for 7 developers then it's not viable (not including of course the licensing fees for Windows...) It would have to be a really compelling solution for management to consider this, but if it looks good, I'll try to make a case for it.

I have a vendor stating that they won't support the Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server they are installing unless all users login using the same username and password. They claim this is to make things easier for the endusers.

Server is standalone and runs both the application (EMR) and the backend databse (MySQL). Each of our offices will get one of these servers. My concerns are 1) security and 2) possible issues with all users using the same user account. Security is an issue as we fall under HIPAA and the DB and all stored documents, which contain PHI, are stored on the TS unencrpyted and without any ACLs limiting access from the generic user account. Vendor says that the DB requires a password to login, so this setup is secure.

I have always required users to have their own accounts when using an RDP, Citix, etc server or server farm, so I don't have any real world experience with a setup like this. Wondering what everyone thinks about this type of setup.

We have a couple servers hosting Citrix VM's. We are planning on adding SAN storage to our network so that we can do the quick migration and high availability thing. The question comes up with deciding what NICs to buy for the servers. We have scads of available pci(e) slots on the servers, so density is not a factor. We're not going to do 10Gbs.

The concerns are gigabit, jumbo frame support (which any old nic is apparently capable of) and making sure none of the processing load is put on the server itself (no softmodem type deal).

I see some nics advertise "copper connection." Is there any benefit to that? What other options should I not compromise on?

Wouldn't it be preferred to have single port nics over dual for redundancy purposes? That's kinda what I gathered from this SF thread.

The San setup we're looking at if anyone's interested:

Clariion: http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/data-sheet/h4097-clariion-ax4-ds.pdf (data sheet) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6076470 $9679.99

OR

Dell: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powervault-md3200i/pd?refid=powervault-md3200i&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=1&~ck=dellSearch $10,749 (not configured as printed--baseline 1tb) $12,905.00 (8tb configured)

Managed Switch: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122074 x1 $599 OR http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3334993&sku=C50-2162 x1 $350

Edit: to clarify the intent of the SAN setup, the illustration below shows the added isolated network we are adding on for the storage for the 2 xen servers. We don't (I believe) need a fancy switch, just one with jumbo frame capability, standard management features and vlan capability:

I have the Citrix ICA/receiver client installed on on both my windows an Linux workstations. On my Windows workstation I can use common keyboard shortcuts like CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-Z etc. On the Linux workstation no CTRL shortcuts work, but ALT shortcuts for menus do. How do I get CTRL to work in the Linux receiver?