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Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook

By : Gaspare A. Silvestri
Book Image

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

Managing Active Directory accounts – AD identity cmdlets


In this recipe we will discuss the utilization of the Active Directory identity cmdlets; this is a capability that permits retrieving and configuring the Active Directory objects used by Citrix XenDesktop, such as machine accounts assigned to existing desktop catalogs.

Getting ready

No preliminary tasks are required. You have already installed the Citrix XenDesktop PowerShell SDK during the installation of Desktop Controller role machine(s).

To be sure of being able to run a PowerShell script (in the .ps1 format), you have to enable the script execution from the PowerShell prompt by executing the following command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force

How to do it...

The following are the steps required to manage the XenDesktop machine identity through the use of PowerShell:

  1. Connect to one of the Desktop Broker servers.

  2. Click on the PowerShell icon installed on the Windows taskbar.

  3. Load the Citrix PowerShell modules by...