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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

Facilitating XenApp® administration with Citrix® policies


In the IT world, Group Policies are a constant presence and a big factor when making decisions about how to manage infrastructures, especially those where the sheer number of users creates a high degree of complexity, which results in more support tickets and other hurdles for IT staff. The effective use of GPOs can greatly reduce these hurdles and facilitate management of the environment, even more so in XenApp, which has so many moving parts. To help customers achieve this goal, Citrix has provided an entire collection of Citrix policies in Citrix Studio or as an Active Directory snap-in so that administrators can have full control over things, such as virtual channels in the ICA connection and printing settings. I have actually dedicated the entire next chapter to printing just because it is such a vast topic that's very often clouded by confusion and uncertainty. Here are several examples of Citrix policy categories in XenApp...