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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
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Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Index

Application delivery – hosted apps


As I've hinted previously, this is by far the most important feature of XenApp and it has been at the core of the product line for the past decade. Even with recent changes in architecture and going from IMA to FMA, the concept of being able to present a business-critical application to a massive number of end users without having to maintain it on each device has grown more and more influential over time. This has also continued to drive interest in the product from customers around the world. However, in the context of our technical implementation, the big question at this point is how do we get from a bunch of XenApp servers deployed on the hypervisor to a meaningful set of applications being accessed by end users and managed by administrators? The following is a step-by-step procedure needed to publish the applications that we currently have installed on the XenApp agent servers to our users. This is accomplished by deploying Delivery Groups in Citrix...