Any probelms with Exchange and Citrix together?

[bran2235]

Hi everyone-
Wanted to ask if anyone has any big complaints or suggestions about implementing MS Exchange with a Citrix Environment. Any know kwirks?

we are considering moving to exchange-
My end users are using Outlook 2000 from their published desktop-

My farm consists of 10 XPe servers (FR2, Ctx SP3);
Windows 2000 WTS

We are considering the move because with our current Email Server (I-Mail by Ipswitch/POP3 Accounts) my end users are experiencing DROPS WITH THEIR PST FILE which sits in a Network Share. Outlook loses its connection with the pst file and my end users have to exit Outlook and re-open it. We were told that Exchange (no pst files) will fix this... (?)
ANY SUGGESTIONS???

Many thanks in advance!!!!

Brandon

 

[Ogi]

Hi,

What you could do, is ensure each client has a hosts and lmhosts file properly configured with all the servers/IP address.

Outlook will look at hosts/lmhosts/dns so that may help you, try it on one of your users.

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[enigma99]

bran2235,
We used to have a problem with Outlook XP and pst files. The issue we had was the user would attach the pst and then try to access it and it would throw up a error message. It would say something like "pst file already in use".
We found an article where Microsoft recommends that you use a drive letter instead of UNC.
So we did the modification and it worked!
What we did was in Outlook we removed the pst and attached the pst via a network drive. So instead of saying \\server\share\%username%\file.pst we changed it to say "W:\file.pst".

Don't know if that helps but you can give it a shot.
Thanks.

 

[bran2235]

Carl and 'enigma',

Thanks for the replys!!
Carl- all of my end users are on thin-clients not 'fat PCs'; and

enigma, I WILL GIVE IT A SHOT!!!!!! YOU will difinitely get a 'star' from me if this works- I will for sure let you both know what happens...

Thanks again!!!!!
Brandon

 

[Ogi]

Hi,

Ensure that the server has said files configured as well!

Cheers,
Carl.