[THIN] Re: Quicken Home & Business 2009

Hi Gehan,

 

Yes and it's actually quite easy.

 

Quicken sets a global mutex (QW is running) to prevent more than one instance running on a server. A global mutex is a semaphore that is visible to all terminal server sessions so if one user runs qw.exe, the global mutex (qw is running) is visible in all other user sessions, preventing them from running another instance of QW.

 

You can do several things to get around this problem:

1. Rename the global mutex to a name that is user-specific, which is what Citrix AIE does.

2. Use a script wrapper to kill the global mutex handle

3. modify qw.exe to change the global mutex reference to a local mutex

 

AIE is only available in XenApp enterprise or platinum editions, but if you've only got advanced edition or plain terminal services the other 2 options aren't very hard.

 

regards,

 

Rick

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:51 AM, <Gehan.DeSilva@rsmi.com.au> wrote:

Hello

Has anyone been able to deploy any of the  Quicken Home & Business 2007/  8 or 9 in either a Pres 4.0 or 4.5 server farm using any method successfully ?

This app has a nice little problem of only being able to run once per box, i have never been able to successfully isolate the app.



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