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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

Overview of this book

XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6.5 Farms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

System requirements for application streaming


The Citrix Offline Plug-in and the Citrix Streaming Profiler (we used version 6.5 of both products for this book) are supported on the following Microsoft operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows XP Home and Professional editions, 32-bit and 64-bit, with the last service pack

  • Microsoft Windows Vista (Home, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions), 32-bit and 64-bit editions, with Service Pack 1

  • Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit (Enterprise, Professional, Ultimate)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, 32-bit and 64-bit editions

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 32-bit and 64-bit editions

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

The current Citrix Offline Plug-in supports Citrix Receiver versions 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x.

We need to have a dedicated machine, usually called a profiler workstation. The profiler workstation must provide an environment that is as close to our users' environment as possible, such as the same or similar operating system and platform (x86, x64...