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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 8. Building Your First XenApp® Farm – Machine Creation Services

Before we begin, I will admit that I am purposefully using a slightly wrong terminology in this chapter. For those of you that have dealt with XenApp before the 7.x release, you are probably well aware of and have been using the jargon farm when referring to a group of XenApp servers. Many people in the field have continued to use this term, including me. However, the merging of XenApp with XenDesktop in 7.x has truly changed everything. People who have been working with XenApp for a long time since the Presentation Server or even the MetaFrame days have had to adopt to a certain extent the new terminology marketed by Citrix, which comes from the XenDesktop world. For example, instead of the word farm, you should use site. However, this is not entirely correct because for some people, farm is a group of Terminal Servers and now this group is actually called a machine catalog, and Citrix refers to site as the full set...