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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 14. The Big Day – Going Live with Citrix XenApp®

And, here we are! Back to where we started, but, hopefully, with a brand new infrastructure in place, one that will not only serve your users well but can make you proud as an IT manager.

The goal of this chapter is to prepare you to migrate the newly built XenApp environment to production. In most cases, this is not a very easy thing to do and requires careful planning because of the potential impact on a business if things were to go not so smoothly. Here are some scenarios that are reviewed in this chapter (note that not all potential situations are covered here and your specific use case may differ from these):

  • First time adoption of a virtual environment

  • Migrating from one virtual environment to another

  • Upgrading to comparable versions of the same product

  • Expanding existing systems and new user base accommodation