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Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook

By : Gaspare A. Silvestri
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Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook

By: Gaspare A. Silvestri

Overview of this book

<p>The way people work is changing; users need to access their resources anywhere, on any device. Citrix XenDesktop gives you this flexibility. In this Cookbook, you will learn how Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 and related products are powerful and flexible enough for you to publish your resources - Desktops, Applications and contents - wherever and on whatever device you choose.<br /><br />This Cookbook will allow you to be able to make the most out of Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 by having a centralized and step-by-step advanced guide to implement, configure, and optimize the migration from a physical to a VDI architecture, using the latest release of the Citrix XenDesktop suite.<br /><br />"Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook" covers the installation, security, and architectural components of the XenDesktop infrastructure, including Web Interface, Access Gateway, and XenApp, using a flow through the book which will bring you to the final advanced Powershell configuration tasks. Each task will include a theoretical section to discuss the technologies. Chapters cover the infrastructural components, deployment for the desktop virtual machines, creating and installing platforms like Branch repeater, desktop and application deployment, and integration through XenDesktop, XenApp, and Microsoft App-V. At the end you will be able to provide secure, performing, and structured XenDesktop infrastructures.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring the XenDesktop policies


Now that the XenDesktop infrastructure has been configured, it's time to activate and populate the VDI policies. This is an extremely important part of the implementation process, because with these policies you will regulate the resource use and assignments, and you will also improve the general virtual desktops performance.

Getting ready

All the policies will be applied to the deployed virtual desktop instances and the assigned users, so you need an already existing XenDesktop infrastructure on which you will enable and use the configuration rules.

How to do it...

In this recipe we will explain the configuration for the user and machine policies offered by Citrix XenDesktop. Perform the following steps:

  1. Connect to the XenDesktop Director machine with domain administrative credentials, then navigate to Start | All Programs | Citrix and run the Desktop Studio.

  2. On the left-hand side menu expand the HDX Policy section and select the Machines link.

  3. Click on the...