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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

Overview of this book

If you want to effectively deploy the various components of Citrix XenApp to create an enterprise environment for application and desktop delivery, this hands-on guide is perfect for you. You start off by understanding the need and benefits of Citrix XenApp with respect to Virtualization technology. After this, you will get to grips with the requirement analysis and designing aspect of building XenApp systems and all the necessary installation and configuration procedures for Citrix XenApp, StoreFront and NetScalar Gateway are explained one by one in detail. Step-by-step, you will learn to deploy your first XenApp with the Machine Creation Services method and Provisioning Services method. After this, you will explore the administering part of applications and systems, followed by printing in the XenApp environment. Next, you will learn all the trips and tricks required to troubleshoot and support the XenApp environment. By the end of this book, you will be ready to go live with your new XenApp environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Index

Chapter 10. Administering a XenApp® Environment – Application Management

Alright! We've built the backbone of our solution, but how do we make it work to our advantage? How do we solve our business challenge and justify the cost of our investment as nicely and as quickly as possible? In the upcoming chapters, we'll discuss these and other topics of interest, and we'll focus on the hands-on administration and delivery of the XenApp environment to serve end users.

First, let's recap what we've implemented so far. The following table shows each component of the Citrix infrastructure and the quantity of units deployed for redundancy:

Citrix component

Quantity

XenApp Delivery Controller

2

Citrix StoreFront Server

2

Citrix Provisioning Server

2

Citrix NetScaler appliance

2

Master image

2

As you can see, we have two of each component so that if one member experiences an unforeseen crash, the other one can continue to operate the environment. The reason we have two master images is because...