Some good stuff on Notes 8 + Citrix
January 15 2009
About seven months ago, I went to DNUG in Bremen and was asked to answer one question -- what about Notes 8 and Citrix? My answer was, we're working on it, especially for Notes 8.0.2 and beyond.
Earlier this week, we published a 40-page technical paper discussing Notes 8 on Citrix:
IBM and Citrix have worked together for many years, and IBM is committed to improving the scalability and performance of the Lotus Notes client on XenApp. With the overall memory improvements that have been incorporated into the Lotus Notes 8.0.2 client, the Citrix XenApp hardware and software you likely have in place today can be a cost-effective means of deploying Lotus Notes 8.0.2.The story gets even better with Lotusphere. Citrix will be co-presenting ID108, and there is a BOF (307) for Notes + Citrix customers as well. The story is good, much better than we anticipated. Certainly worth checking out these resources.
(Thanks, Raj)
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Frederic Antille | 1/16/2009 5:58:48 AM
That's cool for Citrix users ;)
What about Notes 8.x and Terminal Server ? Is it now officialy supported ?
On our server, when I launch the client, it take long long time to start (with the java launch customization too).
I think it's a good idea to make a special skin for it, because all the nice color in the 8.x is a really pain with TS.
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Mark Hughes | 1/16/2009 7:23:10 AM
@2 How many users can you use on the term services with the standard client? How slow is it? What java launch configuration?
My users don't like using the basic client on term services and the full client on the desktop.
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Scott Marchione http://scottmarchione.blogspot.com | 1/16/2009 8:16:09 AM
@2 & @3
I'm with you guys, we have a TS server to host our ERP software for the casual users (which is 90% of our users) and it's a hassle when they need to email something directly from it. So I tried using the Notes client. I have it installed, and it work OK, but it would be nice to have it officially supported so that I can get help with the SSO configuration and what not...
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Michael Kobrowski | 1/16/2009 8:36:35 AM
Going to be important for me to read this today.
Funny that Brian Gallagher is one of the authors - I spoke with him about this a year ago in a Lab at the Lotusphere - glad to see something very detailed has come out of this. (haven't read it yet, but browsing through it, looks great!)
With the old numbers as we heard before, Client upgrade wasn't very popular here.
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Dan King | 1/16/2009 11:38:09 AM
We have Terminal Server as well, would be great if that was supported
Using 8.0.2, even with maximum of 15 users on a standard Windows 2003 server (in a VM), we set the Notes client to basic, it's too slow on standard
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Karsten Vendler | 1/19/2009 1:48:44 AM
Definitely goes in the "good stuff" section, but im a litle worried that Notes 8.5 is not mentioned in this, but maybe it will be in the session?
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Clayton Price | 2/2/2009 1:43:30 AM
Just wondering if there is a determination regarding support of Notes 8.x on Presentation Server 4.0?
Plenty of material on XenApp 4.5 but i'm wondering if 4.0 is just "not certified" or it "just don't work"!
Putting a Citrix upgrade on the critical path for Notes 8.x deployment is something we want to avoid if at all possible.
Note: All going well, Citrix gives us a massive opportunity to deploy the new Notes client really, really quickly !!!
Definitely goes in the "good stuff" column. We have a decent number of customers and prospective customers that are Citrix shops.
Anything that helps keep any shop up to date on Lotus Notes & Domino is good. Especially when one factors in the upgrading to ND8; which I personally consider critical to solidifying that shop as an ND customer for the long haul and putting to rest any possible thoughts of migration.