Citrix Questions

Hi,

We've set up Citrix on an IPAQ and successfully run MS Office, Peoplesoft and other applications.

It was very easy to set up and gave fantastic response times over our 11Mb wireless LAN.

But... "synch with outlook"? When you use Citrix,any application is running on the server so Outlook is wholely running on the Citrix server and is only being displayed back to the IPAQ.

Consequently there is no actual Outlook data as such being sent to the IPAQ - only the display information, and so there is nothing to synchronise with.

If you were run run Outlook *without* Citrix on the IPAQ, then it would be a simple matter of setting up standard syncronsisation between the Outlook client (on IPAQ) and the Exchange server.

You might be somewhat limited in storage capacity on the IPAQ, though. Citrix is popular on the IPAQs because they have limited memory to run the applications in the first case - and limited storage capacity in general. The Citrix thin client runs very well, though.

If you mean synchronise outlook on the citrix *server* with the exchange server, then that shouldn't be a problem and I'd like to hear what it is that you cant do.

Cheers,
Tim.

I want to synch a Palm or Ipaq with Outlook based on the Citrix Server with the handheld setup on the com1 port

I take it you would like to synch your PDA, connected to your local computer, to Outlook which resides at a remote site. I don't believe you can do this with Citrix at this time (don't quote me on that though). You need to have com port redirection.

Here's a free third party utility that supports printer and com port redirection under Windows Terminal Server:

VXL and Citrix Systems recently signed an agreement that allows VXL to supply Citrix Device Services, or CDS with all it's thin client and WBT product lines. CDS allows end users to utilize a limited set of ICA features without the need to purchase either Citrix WinFrame or MetaFrame. CDS is intended for small businesses between 1 and 20 users, that need local printer support and COM port redirection in a Microsoft Windows Terminal Server (TSE) environment. CDS marks a milestone in the evolution of thin client and server-based computing. With VXL now providing CDS free of charge, small businesses can now consider server-based solutions highly cost-effective.

You can download it at:

http://www.coconutcomputers.net/cds.htm

Also, Windows XP Remote Desktop also supports com port redirection.

I hope this helps.

Take a look here and see if it helps:

http://www.thethin.net/eol2.cfm?id=110&category=2&sortby=date

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Good luck!!!!