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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

Summary


In conclusion, MCS is a very solid mechanism for server and desktop provisioning. You can create, add, and update XenApp servers from a single image. With MCS, you can also remove machines from the XenApp site with the capability of totally eliminating footprints on the IT infrastructure. In addition to this, all management tasks are done from Citrix Studio, which facilitates maintenance and it gives IT administrators a single control point for the environment. However, MCS is not the only method to build virtual machines in XenApp. There is another technology called Citrix PVS, which can deploy and manage both Citrix (XenApp/XenDesktop) and non-Citrix workloads in both physical and virtual systems. In fact, PVS is so widely popular in enterprise environments today that I will dedicate the entire next chapter to teaching the use case and deployment of this technology that many customers choose to leverage as an alternative to MCS. In contrast to MCS, PVS requires a separate server...