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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

Production rollout strategies


After you've fully backed up your environment and tested it for functionalities and performance, it is time to come up with a rollout strategy to put your XenApp solution in production. Depending on your particular scenario, you can either use a phased approach or put everyone online at the same time. Here, we will review a couple of methodologies and hopefully one of them will fit your design and help you with the rollout.

Going virtual for the first time

If this is your first virtual setup and you've only served applications on physical workstations, this will be quite the change for your users. Whether you present individual apps through Citrix Receiver for the Web or Receiver for Windows or Linux, or they're connecting to a hosted shared desktop, your users will need to adjust to how they access their new workspaces. Sending out a step-by-step document to everyone is pretty much mandatory, so you won't have to answer a thousand calls a week from frustrated...