I know this channel is a bit less active than the ...
# omnissa-horizon
l
I know this channel is a bit less active than the citrix ones - have there been any former citrix shops that have switched to Omnissa with feedback, good or bad?
r
i dont run one of said shops, but have helped a lot of customers make that switch over the years - usually licensing being cheaper was a huge driver, and the other components included with the suite that these shops were paying others for that they could stop (i.e. appsense, flexapp, etc. ) ... feature wise there's very little difference at this point unless you start looking at some of the more niche features that have been included in citrix over the years that Customer X's team may be used to using.. and in that case there's usually some other way to accomplish whatever "it" is i will say that citrix generally has a little better management of published apps in the RDSH sense of things, like the ability for a user to reset their session if it gets hung, some of the load balancing, etc. -- but most of the apps that i've seen on takeouts have ended up just being converted to App Volumes because the only reason they were ever published in the first place was to limit who could use it w/out installing everywhere and/or doing funky permissioning.
c
Yes, we are in the post-support phase of a project to migrate from Citrix to Horizon (although we did have an existing Horizon VDI setup). I don't think the RDSH side of Horizon is on par with the VDI side of Horizon. Lots of our pain could've been avoided with more robust application testing too.
r
no comment 🤣
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user testing is always the challenge, i've been running into that on just a horizon to horizon migration i'm also running, fun things like finding out months in that "oh yeah, we actually do need the 32 bit version of Office since 64 breaks all our old macro stuff" and fun things like that
c
Yeah, a big challenge has been finding That Registry Key that fixes whatever issue that the vendor provided 8 years ago and was baked into the Citrix image but not written down. Also, don't do it in 2 months!