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    Citrix - Enterprise deployment

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    Hope this is the right place for this. Does anyone have experience of enterprise Citrix Metaframe deployments? A fellow PM of mine needs some advice around interactions between thick clients and citrix hosted apps. He needs to deploy an app under Metaframe and make use of a user locally installed app. Anyone have a working knowledge of metaframe on the enterprise level? If anyone can help then that would be great!
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    In what way does the Citrix app interact with the locally installed app? I'm certainly not an expert in this but I've done a fair bit of work with Citrix, and have the brains of some Citrix specialists that I could probably pick if needs be.

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    Hi - thanks for the reply. He has a biology workflow app that uses an external app for curve fitting type calculations - What he wants to achieve is 'the user clicks a button from inside the Citrix application this would then startup the locally installed app and data from the citrix app would be manipulated locally. Once complete the local app is closed and the manipulated data is returned to the Citrix app'.

    This is how the process works with both clients installed locally (using COM or OLE) - is it possible to achieve this same interaction with one of the thick clients sitting on a metaframe server?

    <Im sorry I cant be more specific, its not my project and he's just left the office!>
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    Hmm, certainly not easy, at least in my experience (which was admittedly 2-3 years ago), you could maybe do it by getting the data to be written to a network share, but how youd go about executing the program i dont know. Is there any reason both packages cant be on the server?

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    Quote Originally Posted by noTHINGface
    This is how the process works with both clients installed locally (using COM or OLE) - is it possible to achieve this same interaction with one of the thick clients sitting on a metaframe server?
    This is nothing in Citrix or Terminal Services to support inter-process communication between a session on the server and one on the client.
    There is, however, "clipboard mapping" where the clipboard is shared between both - if it could be convinced to use that it might work.
    If not, then the app would need to support the 2 components on different computers (disregard the fact that it is Citrix at one end) and use network protocols to communicate.
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    Thanks gents - Paul, yeah this is what I thought, no ipc/rpc. Unfortunately these are shrink wrapped apps so we cant do much about altering the glue betweem them

    Herulach, co-hosting is not an option unfortunately - Citrix is not viewed as a strategic platform in our organisation.

    I think he's gonna hit a brick wall with this (you listening Joe?!!!) Thanks your input guys.
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