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Baddogsettle_16
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Sep 08, 2016
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Application Tunnels

We have a fat client (executable) residing on a three servers behind F5. We want to publish this app on our webtop to clients in front of F5 with load balancing on the backend. When I did initial tes...
application delivery
application publishing
application tunnel
BIG-IP
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
webtop and published application
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    Lucas_Thompson_
    Sep 08, 2016

    AppTunnels don't work quite that way, they just provide a TCP transport for existing apps on the client.

     

    For app-publishing like Citrix where the app is executed on the server and the GUI is delivered to a client, you have to use something like MS RemoteApp or Citrix XenApp.

     

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AppTunnels don't work quite that way, they just provide a TCP transport for existing apps on the client.

 

For app-publishing like Citrix where the app is executed on the server and the GUI is delivered to a client, you have to use something like MS RemoteApp or Citrix XenApp.

 

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Baddogsettle_16
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Sep 08, 2016

Thank you for the clarification. That supports my finding from the testing I am doing.