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<DIV><SPAN class=460460502-20022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Judy:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=460460502-20022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A
friend of mine is rolling out a full remote backup system. It is totally
automated and uses Microsoft's installed VPN. No extra costs. Fully secure. Low
overhead. Might be a perfect solution for you.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=460460502-20022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>HTH</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=460460502-20022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jim</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
accessd-admin@databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin@databaseadvisors.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Judy
Johnson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:39 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
AccessD<BR><B>Subject:</B> [AccessD] Citrix<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi Group - I sent this same request out last February as the issue to use
Citrix came up at that time. The client decided it was not a viable solution.
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<DIV>New players, getting ready to roll out Office XP, they now want to look
at Citrix as a solution again. Could I have your thoughts?</DIV>
<DIV>This is our situation:</DIV>
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<LI>6 offices within the continental US.
<LI>40-50 users. Each office has their own local NT server. Users are not
evenly distributed (some offices have 2, others have a dozen). We also have
about 6 users who work from their homes, most using dial-up.
<LI>There are two areas within the organization, each has their own
application. The "applications" are currently running in A97. I've
converted a test copy to XP and they work fine - no reprogramming was
necessary. The FEs reside on the user's PC. They are used for data
entry and reporting. (The last FE update was in October 2002 - very low
maintenance FE). The data is located in an mdb on each local server.
All servers are linked through NT. One location requires access to all
files so a program was written to create an Aggregate copy of all
data for reporting purposes. The "Aggregate download" is performed on a
monthly basis for Aggregate reporting only.
<LI>The users also commonly cut & paste from a web based reference
manual into a comments field within the data entry form.</LI></UL>
<DIV>The company is anticipating a 2 year window for roll out of XP and are
concerned about having 2 versions of the FE (A97 and XP). My recommendations
is to leave the data mdb in A97 until everyone has XP, then we'd
convert the data. I've tested data entry from XP to the A97 and it works fine.
Frankly, I don't see how the benefit of Citrix can possibly outweigh it's
cost. Does anyone "see" something I may be missing?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Am I correct in understanding that a dedicated server is required? I'm
being told no fail over is required. I believe that means all of my
users will be on the same server, with their FE sitting on the server. If the
server goes down - everyone will be down. But my bigger concern is response
time! We're talking 30-40 concurrent Access users doing data entry and major
report generation. Does anyone have any idea how I can realistically test this
scenario? The IT folks are offering a test environment next week. Thanks for
your input.</DIV>
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<DIV>Judy Johnson</DIV>
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href="mailto:jjwrite@earthlink.net">jjwrite@earthlink.net</A></DIV></DIV>
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