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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp® is an application virtualization product from Citrix. It allows users to connect to their corporate applications from various computer systems and even mobile devices. XenApp® has grown into a complex software with ever-expanding infrastructures in place. Together with tight integrations with other systems such as Terminal Services, Active Directory, and other third-party authentication services, troubleshooting XenApp® has become more complicated. This book teaches you how to approach troubleshooting complex issues with XenApp® deployments and understand the problem, find a fix or workaround, determine the root cause, and apply corrective steps wherever applicable. The book progresses to give you an idea about the many supportive components that play an important role in XenApp’s application delivery model and should be considered while troubleshooting XenApp® issues. It also shows you standard troubleshooting processes so that you can resolve complex XenApp® issues in a mission critical environment. By the end of this book, you will see how and where to use supportive components that help minimize XenApp® issues. Also, we’ll explain various tools that can be useful when monitoring and optimizing entire application and desktop delivery model.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Using Citrix® Director


Citrix Director allows Citrix administrators to handle a large number of applications and a large desktop infrastructure. It provides a web-based interface to the entry-level helpdesk engineers to help users and accomplish routine maintenance activities without providing them full access to the Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop console. Using Citrix Director, helpdesk engineers can view the user sessions and can act upon delivering first or second level support by troubleshooting user issues.

Citrix Director is a tool that can be used to troubleshoot user issues before they become system critical as well as perform support jobs for end users. Citrix Director provides different views of the interface personalized to particular Citrix administrators. Citrix XenDesktop permissions define what is displayed and what commands are available.

Citrix Director permits support engineers/administrators to search for the user reporting an issue and show the activity related to that particular...