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Mastering XenApp

By : Sunny Jha
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Mastering XenApp

By: Sunny Jha

Overview of this book

Citrix® XenApp® is one of the leading pieces of Application delivery software that delivers Windows compatible apps to users on any device, anywhere. Citrix® XenApp® also gives administrators the ability to manage and control the freedom of mobility by increasing the security and saving costs at the same time. This book will provide you with all the knowledge required to successfully deploy and master a complete Citrix® hosted application. First, it will cover essential concepts of the architecture of XenApp®. You will then learn how to set up Hypervisor and how to set up Infrastructure components. Next you will learn how to Set up Citrix® Components, XenApp® resources, PVS, and Netscaler. We will further look at how to prepare the environment for Rollout. Additionally, you will learn how to configure the Citrix® components such as Citrix® Director. Moreover, you’ll learn about shared desktop for delivery to end users and the application of policies for effective and secure delivery. Finally, you will learn how to implement provisioning services for a Citrix® XenApp® 7.6 environment.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering XenApp
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the group policy management feature


It is recommend that you use the group policy management console for applying the Citrix policy because it is central control panel from where active directory group policy is also applied. As you are aware, the sequence active directory OU GPO always wins when it comes to group policy applying to user or computer and it also avoids any potential conflicts between the policies, which means no issues in the environment. If you have worked on the group policy, you must be aware of the fact that how difficult it is to troubleshoot the conflicts.

In order to manage the Citrix policies via group policy management console, let's go through the steps to install the group policy management console feature on the existing Citrix Delivery Controller:

  1. Open Server Manager on the Citrix Delivery Controller.

  2. In the Server Manager dashboard, click on Add roles and features:

  3. It will bring up the Add roles and features wizard where the first step is Installation...