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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

About the Author

Gaspare A. Silvestri is an IT Technical Director for an Italian Hosting Provider company with 10 years of experience in the Information Technology market. Being a Multicertified IT Director, he considers his job as the first of all his passions, with a particular preference for the virtualization and the Unix technology areas. He is always curious and in search of new IT projects on which he performs research activities. Gaspare has been involved in the design, tuning, and consolidation of physical and virtual infrastructures for important system integration companies based in Italy.