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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 Reviewers

Aaron Black is a Senior Product Manager at VMware® in the End User Computing business unit. He is currently responsible for ThinApp, ThinApp Factory, and the Horizon integration with ThinApp. At VMware he has worked at various positions in the field as a Systems Engineer, a stint in technical marketing, and now product management. His primary domain of knowledge revolves around all application-related things. At previous companies, he worked as a Systems Engineer with Citrix Systems, lead a technical corporate IT team at Sprint, and worked as a Solutions Designer for a platinum reseller of VMware and Citrix products.

Ferdinand Feenstra is a Citrix Certified Architect and Senior Specialist for Microsoft environments, based in the Netherlands. He is working in the IT branch since 1998, and he has experience in many complex environments with different customers in different functions.

His experience is in building and designing Citrix environments, implementation and migration projects, and consultancy projects. Since he discovered working with Citrix in 2004, a new world of solutions, working on any device combined with a great user experience, came his way. This makes IT more dynamic and easier to adapt for users. You can find his blog on www.CitrixGuru.net. You can also check his tweets on Twitter, @f_feenstra.

This is the second review for him. He has already reviewed the book XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide, Daniele Tosatto, Packt Publishing.

Ferdinand works for Icento. Icento is a Citrix Partner Solution Advisor with the Silver status. Icento is also a V-Alliance member; the Virtualization collaboration between Microsoft and Citrix. Icento is located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and delivers solutions for the desktop, unified communications, and virtualization and systems management. Icento delivers state-of-the-art ICT solutions for a broad set of international customers. You can find more information at www.icento.nl.

Peter Nap is a very experienced Server Based Computing consultant and Infrastructure Architect. He is 38 years old, lives in the Netherlands and is currently employed as an Infrastructure Architect for Logica (now part of CGI). He has 13 years of work experience in various large and small businesses, including the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands.

In his latest project, Peter has created a VDI infrastructure with XenDesktop 5.6, Windows 7 x64, and Citrix Provisioning 6.1 on a VMware vSphere 5.1 hypervisor.

Juan Perez has been in the IT field for 12 years. He has been working with Citrix for just over 2 years and has thrived in it. He is looking forward to a newly accepted position with very highly regarded Citrix solutions Platinum Partner and attending Citrix Academy in January of 2013 in Santa Clara.

Juan is currently working for Stearns Lending, a fast growing company that has put the challenge on the IT team to help them grow to a world class company. Stearns is fully equipped with Citrix Xenap, Xendesktop, and Xenserver. Since being introduced to Citrix, Juan has learned the basics, and moved on to completely managing multiple Xenserver environments.

He has reviewed the book XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide, Daniele Tosatto, Packt Publishing.