This book is written about XenApp 7.5 Platinum Edition. This feature set was chosen because it is the most current XenApp release at the time of writing as well as the most feature rich. XenApp 7.5 was released on March 26, 2014. XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5 have been fully merged into the same product set, so many of the features we discuss will be common with XenDesktop. This is a radical change from the previous editions of XenApp.
In the Preface, we briefly discussed what is new in XenApp 7.5, but let's take a deeper dive.
XenApp 7.5 uses FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA), which was first introduced with XenDesktop 5; this replaces Independent Management Architecture (IMA) used in the previous XenApp versions. FMA offers more scalability and removes the management layer from the operating system. This makes it easier to manage multiple versions of Windows. With this change of architecture, XenApp 7.5 currently supports Windows Server...