Published on: October 12th, 2009
Goodbye Program Neighborhood
Citrix recently announced they are discontinuing support for Program Neighborhood. They set a target date halfway through 2010. I’m sure this date could slip. Is anyone still using Program Neighborhood?
Citrix recently announced they are discontinuing support for Program Neighborhood. They set a target date halfway through 2010. I’m sure this date could slip. Is anyone still using Program Neighborhood?
I think everyone I know has switched to web interface or Program Neighborhood agent (a.k.a XenApp services). Anyone paying attention to Citrix has seen this coming for a long time. Program Neighborhood is now missing a lot of features. For instance you can’t do application streaming; it doesn’t support zone preference and fail over; also it’s very difficult to centrally configure your new applications.
I am curious if custom ICA sessions also go away. I will also miss the ability to connect to multiple farms of my choosing, and to have the ability to customize my various session settings. I guess this might be a small price to pay for the centralized ease of management that web interface and XenApp service supports.
I kinda miss the old ICA client – but then I remember how difficult it was to manage.
My conclusion: Goodbye, Program Neighborhood, and good riddance
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October 13, 2009 at 11:28 am
jared, i agree with you, what is your opnion of vm ware view pcoip
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October 13, 2009 at 11:31 am
keep blogging this stuff, is xendesktop 4.0 for real or just a pricing exercise
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October 27, 2009 at 10:37 am
@thindogz pcoip from vmware is still in beta but i have seen it and it is impressive, but right now it takes up alot of bandwidth, which is fine if you are on the LAN. We will have to wait and see what the RTM version looks like.
@vdirapper while there is some new stuff in XD 4, it does seem that its purpose is to try and further align the two Citrix products (XenApp and XenDesktop) and make XD the flagship by allowing XenApp customers to trade 2 for 1 to XenDesktop and still get the functionality of XenApp. Stay tuned to see if Citrix backs off the named user model for licensing.
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