Slow login if many thinapps configured, speed up?

[thorwitt]

We are using floating xp desktops with a refresh after logoff. Our desktop pool uses about 50 thinapps which are assigned to the pool with the view administrator (streaming mode). The user profile is configured at the windows user object (no folder redirection). The login time to the desktop is ok, but it takes a lot of time to see all the thinapps in the start menu. Is there any way to speed this up? Some of our users a very unhappy about thism, because they login click at the start menu immediatly and do not see the applications, call the helpdesk and....

So how can we speed this up?

We tested folder redirection but this seem to slow down the thinapps because the sandbox goes over the wire to a network drive.

Will View 5 Persona help? How?

[admin]

Hi,

Check the following information http://communities.vmware.com/thread/172638

Hope this information helps you.

[thorwitt]

Thanks, but this is not the point. Start time for the thinapps are ok. It takes to long for bringing up the 50 thinapp msi's to the start menu.

[gunnarb]

If you are using hte GUI to add the THinApps I'd straight up say this isn't a good idea (it doesn't allow you to remove the ThinApps and it has no flexability).  Try using ThinReg:

http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2010/04/simple-thinregexe-login-script.html

If you are doing ThinReg then try the ThinApp SDKs:

http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/06/using-the-thinapp-sdk-to-apply-an-appsync-update.html

ThinApp is a discussion in of itself, but I've had a lot of success just using thinreg.

Good luck,

Gunnar Berger

www.gunnarberger.com