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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

Printing in a Citrix® world


Implementing a virtualized environment, such as Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, requires planning and design for various components of an infrastructure, including networking, storage, servers, applications, profiles, and much more, as seen in previous chapters. However, in the midst of deploying XenApp, sometimes, administrators and consultants tend to overlook the printing part just because it's working now. Clearly, as proven by the slew of support tickets I've seen and worked on during my time as a support escalation engineer at Citrix, this is an incorrect approach that often causes project delays and customer dissatisfaction. To avoid unnecessary issues and lengthy support calls, let's start by reviewing the fundamentals of printing in a Citrix environment, how it builds upon Windows concepts, what is changed, and what stays the same after moving to a virtualized system.

The fundamentals

XenApp 7.6 printing services relies heavily on the Windows printing architecture...