Index
A
- access layer
- about / Access layer
- Citrix StoreFront / Citrix® StoreFront™
- NetScaler VPX / NetScaler VPX™
- Citrix Receiver / Citrix Receiver™
- Active Directory (AD)
- about / Users, Domain infrastructure requirements
- Active Directory Group Policies
- about / The role of Active Directory Group Policies
- Administrative Tools, disabling / Disabling Administrative Tools
- XenApp system drives, hiding / Hiding XenApp® system drives
- Folder Redirection / Folder Redirection
- Administrative (ADM) template
- about / Other components
- AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances
- about / SQL Server clustered instances
- Amazon Relational Database Service
- about / Host requirements
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- App-V
- integrating / App-V integration
- Application Data (AppData)
- about / Folder Redirection
- application delivery
- about / Application delivery – hosted apps
- hosted applications / Application delivery – hosted apps
- Application Delivery Controller (ADC)
- about / Introducing Citrix XenApp®
- application delivery models
- about / Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6
- hosted apps / Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6
- application streaming / Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6
- hosted shared desktops (HSD) / Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6
- Application Hub
- about / App-V integration
- application siloing
- about / Examples from the IT field
- Application Streaming
- about / App-V integration
- application streaming
- application virtualization
- about / Application virtualization
- architecture design
- creating / Creating your first architecture
- host hardware / The host hardware
- VM infrastructure / The VM infrastructure
- resource allocation / Resource allocation
- Microsoft licensing / Microsoft licensing
- Citrix licensing / Citrix® licensing
- autocreation
- about / Printer provisioning
- Availability Group
- about / AlwaysOn Availability Groups
B
- Blue Screens of Death
- about / Case 2 – BNIStack errors
C
- caching, PVS
- about / Write caching in PVS
- case studies
- Provisioning Services / Provisioning Services™
- XenApp and XenDesktop / XenApp® and XenDesktop®
- Certificate Authority (CA)
- about / SSL certificates
- Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
- Citrix
- URL / The host hardware
- installing, on master VM / Installing the Citrix® VDA on the master VM
- Citrix Agents
- upgrading, via PVS / Upgrading the Citrix® Agents via PVS
- Citrix Certified Associate (CCA-V)
- about / XenApp® certifications
- Citrix Certified Expert (CCE-V)
- about / XenApp® certifications
- Citrix Certified Professional (CCP-V)
- about / XenApp® certifications
- Citrix Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)
- Citrix Director
- about / Citrix® Director, Monitoring the XenApp® site
- requisites / Citrix® Director
- Citrix discussion boards
- about / Citrix® discussion boards
- URL / Citrix® discussion boards
- Citrix Knowledge Base (KB)
- about / Citrix® Knowledge Base
- URL / Citrix® Knowledge Base
- Citrix License Server
- about / Citrix® License Server
- Citrix License Server 11.12.1
- installing / Installing Citrix License Server 11.12.1
- Citrix policies
- XenApp administration, facilitating / Facilitating XenApp® administration with Citrix® policies
- managing / How do you get started with Citrix® policies?
- Citrix printing
- about / Printing in a Citrix® world
- fundamentals / The fundamentals
- printer provisioning / Printer provisioning
- local printers / Local printers versus network printers
- network printers / Local printers versus network printers
- Citrix Print Management service / The Citrix® Print Management service
- policies / Citrix® Printing policies
- Citrix Profile Management
- about / Citrix® Profile Management, Citrix® Profile Management
- UPM profiles, using / So, why UPM profiles?
- configuring / Configuring profile management in a XenApp® environment
- profile streaming / Profile Streaming
- Citrix Provisioning Services
- about / Citrix Provisioning Services™
- Citrix PXE Service
- about / Configuring Citrix® PVS
- Citrix Ready
- URL / Printer provisioning
- Citrix Receiver
- about / Citrix Receiver™
- Citrix StoreFront
- about / Citrix® StoreFront™
- ports / Citrix® StoreFront™
- installing / Installing Citrix StoreFront™
- configuring / Configuring Citrix StoreFront™
- SSL certificates, creating / SSL certificates
- site, setting up / Setting up the StoreFront™ site
- authentication methods, configuring / Configuring authentication methods
- second server, joining / Joining a second ary server to the StoreFront™ deployment
- user access, testing / Testing the StoreFront™ user access
- Citrix Studio
- about / Citrix® Studio
- requisites / Citrix® Studio
- Citrix Studio Console
- Citrix Technology Professional (CTP)
- about / Community websites
- Citrix XenApp
- about / Introducing Citrix XenApp®
- architecture / Introducing Citrix XenApp®
- licensing / Citrix® licensing
- URL / Citrix® licensing
- other components / Other components
- supportability / XenApp® supportability
- certifications / XenApp® certifications
- use cases / Examples from the IT field
- master image, configuring for / Configuring your master image for Citrix XenApp®
- Citrix XenApp 7.6
- features / New features in XenApp® 7.6
- application delivery models / Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6
- configuring / Configuring Citrix XenApp® 7.6
- hypervisor support / Hypervisor support
- Service Account, creating / XenApp® Service Account
- host connection, securing with SSL / Securing the host connection with SSL, Configuring the Delivery Controller
- machine catalog / Machine catalogs
- Delivery Groups / Delivery Groups
- Policies / Policies
- Logging / Logging
- Configuration node / Configuration
- Citrix XenApp 7.6 Delivery Controller
- installing / Installing the Citrix XenApp® 7.6 Delivery Controller
- site setup / Site setup
- Remote PC access / Remote PC access
- deployment / Scale your deployment – existing site
- Citrix XenApp 7.x
- design transformation / Design transformation in 7.x
- Citrix XenApp for enterprise
- designing / Designing XenApp® for an enterprise
- goals / Goals
- users / Users
- user location, defining / User location
- devices / Devices and peripherals
- peripherals / Devices and peripherals
- networks / Networks
- storage / Storage
- profiles / Profiles
- core applications / Core applications
- printing / Printing
- Client Access Licenses (CALs)
- command-line interface (CLI)
- Configuration Logging
- about / Logging
- control layer
- about / Control layer
- XenApp Delivery Controller / XenApp® Delivery Controller
- Citrix Director / Citrix® Director
- Citrix License Server / Citrix® License Server
- SQL Server / SQL Server
- Provisioning Services (PVS) / Citrix Provisioning Services™
- controller
- joining, to XenApp site / Joining a second controller to the XenApp® site
D
- database
- backups / Database backups
- database collation
- about / Database collation
- database permissions
- administrative / Database permissions
- runtime / Database permissions
- about / Database permissions
- delegated administration
- Delivery Controller HA
- testing / Delivery Controller HA
- Delivery Groups
- about / Delivery Groups
- creating / Creating Delivery Groups
- Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
- about / User location, Networks
- DHCP Scope Options 66/67
- about / Configuring Citrix® PVS
- Dynamic Workload Balancing
- about / Citrix® licensing
E
- EdgeSight for Load Testing (ESLT)
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- about / Examples from the IT field
- end-of-extended-support (EOES)
- about / XenApp® supportability
- end-of-life (EOL)
- about / XenApp® supportability
- end-of-maintenance (EOM)
- about / XenApp® supportability
- external network
- about / Networks
F
- failover cluster instance (FCI)
- about / SQL Server clustered instances
- Fibre Channel (FC)
- about / Storage
- FlexCast Management Architecture
- about / User location
- FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA)
- about / Introducing Citrix XenApp®
- Folder Redirection
- about / Folder Redirection
- drawbacks / The potential drawbacks of Folder Redirection
- Folder Redirection (FR)
- about / Folder Redirection
- Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
- about / Database permissions, Hypervisor support
- functional testing
G
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- about / Understanding virtualization
- Graphics Device Interface (GDI)
- about / What happens in the background?
- Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
- Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
- about / Citrix Receiver™
H
- HA
- testing / Testing HA
- NetScaler HA / NetScaler® HA
- StoreFront HA / StoreFront™ HA
- Delivery Controller HA / Delivery Controller HA
- hardware layer
- about / Hardware layer
- host requisites / Host requirements
- domain infrastructure requisites / Domain infrastructure requirements
- High Availability (HA)
- hosted applications
- about / Application delivery – hosted apps
- Delivery Groups, creating / Creating Delivery Groups
- updating, for MCS / Updating hosted applications – MCS
- updating, for PVS / Updating hosted applications – PVS
- accessing, via NetScaler Gateway / Accessing hosted applications via NetScaler Gateway™
- accessing, via StoreFront / Accessing hosted applications via StoreFront™
- hosted apps
- hosted shared desktops (HSD)
- hypervisor support
- configuring / Hypervisor support
I
- Independent Computing Architecture (ICA)
- Independent Management Architecture (IMA)
- about / Design transformation in 7.x
- internal network
- about / Networks
- Internet Explorer (IE)
- about / Citrix® Director
- Internet Information Services (IIS)
K
- Key Management Service (KMS)
- about / Microsoft licensing
- Knowledge Base (KB)
L
- LDAP authentication
- configuring / Configuring the LDAP authentication
- License Access Code
- License Administration Console (LAC)
- License Server (LS)
- license service software, Citrix XenApp
- URL / Citrix® licensing
- load balancing
- NetScaler, configuring / Configuring Citrix NetScaler® for load balancing
- testing, on NetScaler / Testing NetScaler® load balancing
- load balancing VIP
- configuring / Configuring a load balancing VIP
- Local Area Network (LAN)
- about / User location
- local printers
- versus network printers / Local printers versus network printers
- local profile
- about / Profiles
- Login VSI
M
- machine catalog
- about / Machine catalogs
- Machine Creation Services (MCS)
- about / Design transformation in 7.x, Storage, Citrix Provisioning Services™, Machine catalogs
- VDA, upgrading / Upgrading the VDA via MCS
- mandatory profile
- about / Profiles
- master image
- preparing / Preparing your master image
- VM, designing / Designing your master image VM
- configuring, for Citrix XenApp / Configuring your master image for Citrix XenApp®
- Citrix VDA, installing on master VM / Installing the Citrix® VDA on the master VM
- MCS
- about / Explaining Machine Creation Services
- used, for building XenApp Catalogs / Building XenApp® Catalogs with MCS
- used, for adding VMs / Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- used, for deleting VMs / Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- used, for updating VMs / Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- maintenance mode / What is the maintenance mode, anyway?
- versus PVS / MCS versus PVS
- hosted applications, updating / Updating hosted applications – MCS
- Microsoft
- URL / The host hardware
- Microsoft Folder Redirection
- about / Other components
- Microsoft licensing
- about / Microsoft licensing
- operating system / Microsoft licensing
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS) / Microsoft licensing
- Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
- about / Application virtualization
- mirror database
- about / SQL Server mirroring
- mirror server
- about / SQL Server mirroring
N
- NetScaler
- configuring, for load balancing / Configuring Citrix NetScaler® for load balancing
- network requirements / Network requirements
- settings, verifying / Verifying settings and licensing
- licensing, verifying / Verifying settings and licensing
- SSL certificates, obtaining / Obtaining SSL certificates
- StoreFront servers, adding / Adding StoreFront™ servers in NetScaler®
- Service Groups, creating / Creating Service Groups
- load balancing VIP, configuring / Configuring a load balancing VIP
- load balancing, testing / Testing NetScaler® load balancing
- configuration backup / NetScaler® configuration backup
- NetScaler Gateway
- hosted applications, accessing via / Accessing hosted applications via NetScaler Gateway™
- NetScaler Gateway VPX
- installing / Installing the NetScaler Gateway VPX™
- configuring / Configuring the NetScaler Gateway VPX™
- NetScaler appliance, licensing / Licensing your NetScaler® appliance
- basic modes, configuring / Basic modes and settings
- settings, applying / Basic modes and settings
- High Availability (HA), configuring / Configuring High Availability
- LDAP authentication, configuring / Configuring the LDAP authentication
- Subnet IP (SNIP), adding / Adding a Subnet IP
- SSL certificates, managing / Managing SSL certificates
- session policies, configuring / Configuring session policies and profiles
- profiles, configuring / Configuring session policies and profiles
- virtual server, creating / Creating a virtual server
- NetScaler HA
- testing / NetScaler® HA
- NetScaler IP (NSIP)
- NetScaler VPX
- about / NetScaler VPX™
- Network Interface Card (NIC)
- about / Creating a VM in XenCenter®
- network printers
- versus local printers / Local printers versus network printers
- networks, Citrix XenApp for enterprise
O
- Organizational Units (OUs)
- about / Users
P
- performance testing
- Personal vDisk (PvD)
- policies, Citrix printing
- autocreation / Autocreation
- UPS / UPS and UPD
- UPD / UPS and UPD
- pool master
- about / Hypervisor support
- Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
- principal database
- about / SQL Server mirroring
- printer provisioning
- about / Printer provisioning
- printing
- in Windows / Printing in the Windows world
- in Citrix / Printing in a Citrix® world
- production rollout strategies
- about / Production rollout strategies
- virtual setup / Going virtual for the first time
- virtual-to-virtual migration / Virtual-to-virtual migration
- upgrading, to latest version / Upgrading to the latest version
- existing systems, expanding / Expansion of existing systems
- profiles, Citrix XenApp for enterprise
- about / Profiles
- mandatory profile / Profiles
- roaming profile / Profiles
- local profile / Profiles
- Citrix Profile Management / Citrix® Profile Management
- Folder Redirection (FR) / Folder Redirection
- profile streaming
- about / Profile Streaming
- project planning
- about / Project planning
- Provisioning Services (PVS)
- about / Design transformation in 7.x, Other components, User location, Machine catalogs
- case study, on retries / Case 1 – Retries
- case study, on BNIStack errors / Case 2 – BNIStack errors
- case study, on target device boot failure / Case 3 – Target device boot failure
- PuTTY
- PVS
- about / Getting started with PVS
- single image management / Single image management
- read-only VHD / The power of read-only
- scalability / Scalability
- infrastructure requisites / Infrastructure needs
- licensing / Licensing
- versus MCS / MCS versus PVS
- environment, designing / Designing the PVS environment
- caching / Write caching in PVS
- infrastructure, building / Building the PVS infrastructure
- installing / Installing Citrix® PVS
- configuring / Configuring Citrix® PVS
- XenDesktop Setup Wizard, running / Running the XenDesktop® setup wizard in PVS
- hosted applications, updating / Updating hosted applications – PVS
- upgrading / Upgrading VDA and PVS target device software
- Citrix Agents, upgrading / Upgrading the Citrix® Agents via PVS
- upgrading, via VHD file / There must be another way…
- PVS target device software
- configuring / Configuring the PVS target device software
Q
- Quality-of-Service (QoS)
- about / Case 1 – Retries
R
- RDS licensing
- about / RDS licensing
- Reference Architecture (RA)
- about / Reference Architectures
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
- resource layer
- about / Resource layer
- server OS VDA / Server OS VDA
- roaming profile
- about / Profiles
S
- Salesforce
- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- about / NetScaler® configuration backup
- Self-Service Plugin (SSP)
- about / Citrix Receiver™
- server OS VDA
- about / Server OS VDA
- Service Groups
- creating, in NetScaler / Creating Service Groups
- Session Linger
- configuring / Taking advantage of Session Prelaunch and Session Linger
- Session Prelaunch
- configuring / Taking advantage of Session Prelaunch and Session Linger
- Single-Sign-On (SSO)
- about / Citrix Receiver™
- site configuration database
- about / SQL Server
- Software-As-a-Service (SaaS)
- about / Core applications
- SolarWinds
- about / Configuring Citrix® PVS
- solid-state drives (SSDs)
- about / Storage
- SQL Server
- about / SQL Server
- features / SQL Server
- mirroring / SQL Server mirroring
- clustered instances / SQL Server clustered instances
- AlwaysOn Availability Groups / AlwaysOn Availability Groups
- database permissions / Database permissions
- database collation / Database collation
- SSL
- host connection, securing with / Securing the host connection with SSL, Configuring the Delivery Controller
- SSL certificates
- creating / SSL certificates
- managing / Managing SSL certificates
- obtaining, for NetScaler / Obtaining SSL certificates
- static IP address
- about / Creating a VM in XenCenter®
- StoreFront
- hosted applications, accessing / Accessing hosted applications via StoreFront™
- StoreFront HA
- testing / StoreFront™ HA
- StoreFront servers
- adding, in NetScaler / Adding StoreFront™ servers in NetScaler®
- Subnet IP (SNIP)
- about / Installing the NetScaler Gateway VPX™
- adding / Adding a Subnet IP
- Subnet IP address (SNIP)
- about / Networks
- System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
- about / Citrix Receiver™
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- about / Hypervisor support
T
- Terminal Services
- about / Application virtualization, RDS licensing
- troubleshooting methodology
- about / Troubleshooting methodology
- notes / Notes and templates
- templates / Notes and templates
- research / Research
- troubleshooting methodology, resources
- Citrix Knowledge Base (KB) / Citrix® Knowledge Base
- Citrix discussion boards / Citrix® discussion boards
- community websites / Community websites
- Type-1 hypervisor
- about / Understanding virtualization
U
- Unified Computing System (UCS)
- about / The host hardware, Case 1 – Retries
- Universal Print Driver (UPD)
- about / Printing, Printer provisioning
- Universal Print Server (UPS)
- about / Printing, Printer provisioning
- Universal Profile Management (UPM)
- about / Other components
- UPD
- enabling / UPS and UPD
- UPM profiles
- advantages / So, why UPM profiles?
- UPS
- enabling / UPS and UPD
- deploying / So, how do we deploy UPS, anyway?
- user logon process
- about / The user logon process
- User Profile Management (UPM)
- about / Citrix® Profile Management
- users, Citrix XenApp for enterprise
- about / Users
- concurrency rate / Concurrency rate
- Active Directory, considerations / Active Directory considerations
V
- VDA
- upgrading / Upgrading VDA and PVS target device software
- upgrading, via Machine Creation Services (MCS) / Upgrading the VDA via MCS
- Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)
- Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA)
- about / Design transformation in 7.x
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- about / Introducing Citrix XenApp®
- virtual environment
- functional testing / Functional and performance testing
- performance testing / Functional and performance testing
- database backups / Database backups
- NetScaler, configuration backup / NetScaler® configuration backup
- HA, testing / Testing HA
- Virtual IP (VIP )
- about / StoreFront™ HA
- Virtual IP (VIP)
- virtualization
- about / Understanding virtualization
- application virtualization / Application virtualization
- VM
- creating, in XenCenter / Creating a VM in XenCenter®
- VM infrastructure, architecture design
- about / The VM infrastructure
- for Host A / Host A
- for Host B / Host B
- for Host C / Host C
- VM Power Admin
- about / XenApp® Service Account
- VMs
- deleting, with MCS / Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- adding, with MCS / Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- updating, with MCS / Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- VMware
- URL / The host hardware
- Voice-over-IP (VoIP) / Installing the Citrix® VDA on the master VM
W
- Windows Client Foundation (WCF)
- about / Server OS VDA
- Windows printing
- about / Printing in the Windows world
- processes / What happens in the background?
- architecture / What happens in the background?
- challenges / Windows Printing challenges
- Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)
- about / SQL Server clustered instances
- witness server
- about / SQL Server mirroring
X
- XenApp administration
- facilitating, with Citrix policies / Facilitating XenApp® administration with Citrix® policies
- XenApp and XenDesktop
- case study, on 1030 error / Case 1 – 1030 error when launching the app
- case study, on RDS License errors / Case 2 – RDS license errors
- case study, on Citrix Studio with incorrect VM states / Case 3 – Citrix® Studio showing incorrect VM states
- XenApp Catalogs
- building, with MCS / Building XenApp® Catalogs with MCS
- XenApp Delivery Controller
- about / XenApp® Delivery Controller
- requisites / XenApp® Delivery Controller
- Citrix Studio / Citrix® Studio
- XenApp permissions
- XenApp site
- second controller, joining / Joining a second controller to the XenApp® site
- monitoring / Monitoring the XenApp® site
- XenCenter
- VM, creating / Creating a VM in XenCenter®
- XenDesktop Setup Wizard
- running, in PVS / Running the XenDesktop® setup wizard in PVS
- XenServer Direct VHD Boot
- about / There must be another way…
Z
- Zone Data Collector
- about / User location