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#1 (**permalink**) 10-17-2006, 03:28 PM **App Publishing**

Hi. I was wondering if someone can tell what the best practices (recommendations) are for publishing apps. What I mean is do you typically just publish the .exe or is it more recommended to use a script to launch it (application location area during the publishing preocess)? If script what do you all typically use? VB, Bat, CMD, etc.?

Thank you.
Dan

sasha · #2 (**permalink**) 10-18-2006, 04:01 PM **App Publishing**

Hi Dan,
I mostly publish the exe file and that works fine. Somtimes when i need to initiate two programs together with less user effort I'm useing cmd script.

Brgds,
sasha

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi. I was wondering if someone can tell what the best practices (recommendations) are for publishing apps. What I mean is do you typically just publish the .exe or is it more recommended to use a script to launch it (application location area during the publishing preocess)? If script what do you all typically use? VB, Bat, CMD, etc.?

Thank you.
Dan

ccbdan · #3 (**permalink**) 10-18-2006, 06:42 PM **App Publishing**

Sasha,

Thanks for the reply. I am somewhat new to Citrix and my predecessor used scripts for everything...I think it's a bit overkill. I was just curious.

Thanks again.
Dan

EkilErif · #4 (**permalink**) 12-28-2006, 09:26 AM **App Publishing**

For everything but Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook I publish the exe file.

The reason for Notes being published as a script is that we are mid way through a migration from one release to another and until we publish a script which checks that the client is up to the latest release.

Outlook is published via a script because my predecessor initially installed Office without using a Custom install wizard to create Outlook profiles on Outlook start and I haven't had a chance to set this right as yet! Its one of many things to tackle in the New Year!

Clark Parkson · #5 (**permalink**) 01-12-2007, 03:20 PM **App Publishing**

It's possilble to publish applications via Group Policy or other application from the class of desktop management tools. With Group Policy there's more need to publish applications like a scripts where's some need to preconfigure them for concrete environment they are oriented to be deployed on. But when we switched to Desktop Authority, a desktop management tool from Scriptlogic, it turned out that most the things I did previosly via scripts which sometimes very slow and buggy I can do right from the Desktop Authority's console. Its something of what I did via group policy management but when with GMPC I need to create complex sets of GPOs where each represented specific tune for a specific case, here I can do that right from one place. For example I am able to publish and run applications that require high-level user privileges on boxes where user rights are limited to default users. So if application requires installing servies to run on a client, I don't have problems with launching it on user desktop, because I can run applications with administrative privileges without using runas command.

#6 (**permalink**) 02-13-2007, 10:53 AM **App Publishing**

Beware Desktop Authority is buggy on PS4 and hangs when trying to create a profile and loading published app at same time.

Also when you upgrade Desktop Authority it sets certain sections you havent even configured. I have had dozens of irate users complaining that they lost their Outlook signature after the last Desktop Authority update.

Clark Parkson · #7 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 11:49 AM **App Publishing**

Hmm. That sounds strange to me. In fact we are planning to move to new version 7.6 to be able to switch between our main setups and setups created within our virtual desktop infrastructure. And we also use desktop authority capability to build custom signatures. We haven't gone any further then that structure listed there in Scriptlogic's knowledge base Q13484 article. We are currently testing it exactly with intention to discover such troubles as you describe and so on, but luckily haven't experienced anything harming our setups. We are building new virtual setup and are interested in such info to prevent ourselves from recovering after upgrade. Probably we have different setup so we haven't experienced troubles on that our test setup. By the way, have you contacted their representatives? What are they talking about that problem you experience? Have you tried to search through the knowledgebase to find out the origin? Don't forget that signature should be assigned after you create the mail profile, so in fact it'll be assigned on the next logon after the creation of profile.

#8 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008, 02:43 PM **App Publishing**

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04-25-2008, 12:51 PM **App Publishing**

U need antivirus?