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| spena77 2003-09-15, 4:44 pm |
| Hi guys!
Today, my supervisor asked me what were the main differences between Citrix Metaframe and Windows Terminal Service. I went ahead and explained to him that the main differences between the two products were:
1- The possibility to open applications from any platforms using citrix.
2- Citrix runs on any protocol and terminal services just runs on TCP/IP.
3- Will allow you to save money TCO for new machines because to run terminal service you need at least Win NT 4.0 or better.
4- Able to publish Apps, desktop and content and access them using a web browser.
Do you any other difference between these two? If you do, please send me a reply. Thanks in advance! | |
| dok klene 2003-09-15, 9:39 pm |
| IF you are using XP: The UPD and Printer Management aka the ease of mapping printer drivers.
I have limited experience with TS, but I think MetaFrame is faster.
ICA has less overhead then RDP.
More robost client with more configuration options. | |
| spena77 2003-09-16, 2:55 pm |
| Thanks a lot for the information! | |
| afalbrig 2003-10-12, 11:38 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by spena77
Hi guys!
Today, my supervisor asked me what were the main differences between Citrix Metaframe and Windows Terminal Service. I went ahead and explained to him that the main differences between the two products were:
1- The possibility to open applications from any platforms using citrix.
2- Citrix runs on any protocol and terminal services just runs on TCP/IP.
3- Will allow you to save money TCO for new machines because to run terminal service you need at least Win NT 4.0 or better.
4- Able to publish Apps, desktop and content and access them using a web browser.
Do you any other difference between these two? If you do, please send me a reply. Thanks in advance!
You can attach drives from your client as drives in your session. (Supposedly TSE can do this too, but I've never seen it work right.) You can also map printers. This gets to be pretty important if your users are coming from a different company's network, for instance, which won't necessarily be able to access local resources.
Also, there's only an RDP client for Win16 (Windows 3.1) and Win32 (Win95 and up). There are ICA clients for Mac, various flavors of Unix, various handhelds, and there are ways to get web access. | |
| Tech Ranger 2003-11-30, 11:49 pm |
| Which is used more in application server farms? | |
| afalbrig 2003-12-01, 4:28 am |
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Originally posted by Tech Ranger
Which is used more in application server farms?
Citrix gives you the ability to do server farms. TS by itself doesn't have that ability. | |
| steinmto 2003-12-04, 1:15 pm |
| Some other advantages are Load Balancing, The ability to push apps to servers (Installation Manager), Resource Manager (Monitoring) and Security (SSL support for running ICA sessions over port 443). | |
| kumaresh 2003-12-04, 9:22 pm |
| Another important diff is user load balancing that divert the users into multiple servers depending on RAM/processor used % in each server
And nevertheless, ICA is efficient in acceesing apps faster as it only downloads the updated info and not the complete info from scratch. Speed screen helps in passing keyboard strokes, mouse clicks faster.
and Load balancing, server farms are unique feature, which makes it scalable too. | |
| kumaresh 2003-12-04, 9:23 pm |
| Also Citrix has huge market share whereas TS is seldom used in enterprise level these days. |
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