Hi All,
I want to deliver the office 2007 suite by means of application streaming. But so far office doesnt' seem to know how to contact the sharepoint server. I guess there's a problem with the streamed office-application not being able to communicate with the windows sharepoint services, as these service are not installed in the office-streamed-packag but local citrix-server. Anybody ideas?
regards,
Boein
Alan posted this in an earlier post:
Another option is to publish a new IE application and append your SharePoint portal(s) URL to it:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://portal_fqdn
Call the published app "Sharepoint portal" (or whatever) and only publish it to servers that have MS Office installed on them. Even though it's really just IE, your users will have this icon presented to them as "Sharepoint portal".
For "regular" web browsing, publish IE ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe") to your dedicated "web browser" servers only and name the published app "Internet Explorer".
In effect, you end up siloing "regular" web traffic since any "regular" web browsing sessions will end up on servers dedicated to web browsing only. Any Sharepoint web traffic sessions will end up on your production XenApp servers where Office is installed, since users will launch the "Sharepoint portal" icon to get there.
To prevent regular web browsing within the "Sharepoint portal" sessions, use Group Policy to assign a dummy web proxy and enter your Sharepoint portals as proxy exceptions. Link the GPO to an OU containing your backend servers but not the dedicated "web browser" servers and enable GP loopback
As long as your dedicated "web browser" XenApp servers are in a different OU, the GPO won't be applied to user sessions on those servers, so web browsing will be unrestricted.
I would be happy to consult for you on this project. Feel free to contact me via my website address link in my signature.
Alan Osborne
President (MCSE, CCNA, VCP, CCA)
VCIT Consulting - Citrix/Terminal Services Remote Desktop Solutions for SMB
VCIT website My Blog
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the reply. The workaround you suggested is sth I already use, I open a document by publishing internet-explorer as an application within the office-bubble. Using internet explorer opens the document in office and works fine, however saving the document, add tags to it... ll typical MOSS-stuff is not possible because I cannot go to the sharepoint server from within the office application. When typing the sharepoint-fqn in file-open I get an error "you cant open the location using this program, please try a different location". Is it just not possible using application streaming or am I missing sth?
Thanks