Anyone Want a Citrix/Windows Consultant?

[roadster198]

Happy to work UK Wide. Currently coming to the end of a role which has only offered an extentsion till Dec 24th. Anyone help?

thanks

[Keldin]

How good is your netbackup?

K

[Cowboy Bob]

I'll pay you good money to come into my client and remove that Citrix carp from their network. I spend more time connecting head with desk over that pile of sh!te than anything else - including *shudder* Visual SourceSafe.

[oracleslave]

I'll pay you good money to come into my client and remove that Citrix carp from their network. I spend more time connecting head with desk over that pile of sh!te than anything else - including *shudder* Visual SourceSafe.

I am no expert but I thought that once it was up and running it just sort of worked. What goes wrong?

[Cowboy Bob]

I am no expert but I thought that once it was up and running it just sort of worked. What goes wrong?

For a start, when you're on a remote site, you get timeouts and application locking due to bandwidth issues. For example, in the middle of typing, when Word saves it's temporary file, you can wait up to 30 seconds for it to become responsive again.

Then there's printing. That's a real cross your fingers exercise. Even though the printer is 5 yards away, because we're on Citrix, everything goes on a round trip via head office. If the printer runs out of paper, for example, you have to start the print job again because Citrix cancels the job when the printer runs out of paper.

And then there's shared drives. When I receive an attachment in Outlook, can I save it to my PC? Can I boll0x. Citrix tells me it doesn't have permissions to save there, so I have to save to a network drive that's back in head office - traffic is going from head office to my PC and back again for this operation, Citrix isn't clever enough to do proper traffic routing - and then I have to copy it back to my machine afterwards.

I can easily go on...

[BrilloPad]

The current gig is unfortunate enough to use citrix. well the managers here are v v stupid so perhaps not unfortunate.

Its not quite so funny when the application I work on gets blamed for lots of crashes. Took ages to convince them it is actually citrix. f**kwits.

[daviejones]

I'll pay you good money to come into my client and remove that Citrix carp from their network. I spend more time connecting head with desk over that pile of sh!te than anything else - including *shudder* Visual SourceSafe.

Do people still use VSS? Not seen it in ages.....

[Crossroads]

Always good to see people moaning about Citrix. Ensures I've got plenty of work for the future.

Properly designed and implemented it works just fine. Implemented badly then it's not going to deliver.

If the OP would like to send me a PM / link to his CV I can ask around my contacts...

[VectraMan]

For a start, when you're on a remote site, you get timeouts and application locking due to bandwidth issues. For example, in the middle of typing, when Word saves it's temporary file, you can wait up to 30 seconds for it to become responsive again.

And then there's shared drives. When I receive an attachment in Outlook, can I save it to my PC? Can I boll0x. Citrix tells me it doesn't have permissions to save there, so I have to save to a network drive that's back in head office - traffic is going from head office to my PC and back again for this operation, Citrix isn't clever enough to do proper traffic routing - and then I have to copy it back to my machine afterwards.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the point is everything happens on the server. Word is running on the server, saves it's temporary file on the server, and so there is no bandwidth used. And why do you need to save files on your PC? Your PC should be acting like a dumb terminal. Or am I missing something?

BTW I'm happy to remove VSS for you. I recently took a 5 year old VSS database and got all the files, history and labels into subVersion.

[Cowboy Bob]

BTW I'm happy to remove VSS for you. I recently took a 5 year old VSS database and got all the files, history and labels into subVersion.

Do I know you? Our main code has just been moved into SubVersion because branching in VSS is crap. If the town you're working in begins with an M and ends with a W then I think we may be currently in the same building...