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Many, many "start up" issues resolved by CIT. Here are any remaining ones to work through. |
Use was from December 2014, through August 2016. Here is a partial record of my issues, along with some remaining ones to work through. |
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STATUS: Experiment stopped
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016: I have brought to a halt my CIT Desktop Everywhere engagement, which I started 12/16/2014. For over 1.5 years, this service was my primary work platform, with no other computer dedicated to me. A partial record of my issues, most of which CIT resolved, is parked below.
Facts to know
- CIT's service page:
- Updates to the desktop image are usually only done on Saturdays.
- Video-enhanced service gets you dedicated video, of 256MB video RAM (~24-32 VMs split up across available video RAM). For $2/mo. more. When of value?
- CIT's service does not support RDP (currently). Only accepts PCoIP.
- End-point can off-load some of that protocol's processing to hardware if it has a dedicated Teradici-licensed PCoIP hardware card.
- As of 4/28/16: CIT considering having "pools" so images could be tailor for departments and/ or have greater control over maintenance windows (including reverting or patching sooner than all others).
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- 5/11/15Mon: Tested out with Zack and all looked good.
- Acrobat DC still not loaded up, however.
- Info from Friday morning, 5/8/15, with KeeneS:
- May switch Acrobat to the Serialized Creative Cloud.
- Serialized Creative Cloud replacing current virtual application deployment this weekend, for Monday (5/11/15).
Issues Oliver
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had, most of which were addressed
Reported issue to CIT, on 4/22/16 (Friday)
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Notes: Box Edit no longer states an error when starting up on Windows log-in as it was doing in the past (below). And the icon shows up in the task bar, bottom right.
- Update Tues., Sept. 6, 2016: On my last day of using the service, I was still seeing that Box Edit did not run correctly on boot-up, and had been seeing it. So it must have come back at some point!
When I use Box Edit from a Windows non-VDI system, the tested file edits just fine within MS Word, saving directly to Box.com without needing to do the whole round-tripping thing.
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