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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about Managing Sessions on XenApp farms. In particular, we talked about:

  • Understanding XenApp sessions

  • Managing and monitoring sessions using Citrix Delivery Services Console, including disconnecting, resetting, and logoff sessions, and sending messages to users

  • Viewing and shadowing sessions, using Shadow Taskbar

  • Maintaining session activity using Session Reliability, Auto client reconnect, and ICA keep-alive features

  • Customizing user environments in XenApp, including controlling the appearance of user logons and access to devices and ports, mapping drives, and redirecting COM Ports and Audio

  • Limiting concurrent connections per server and limiting application instances and sharing sessions and connections

  • Optimizing user sessions for XenApp, using local text echo, and mouse click feedback

  • Redirection of Local Special Folders in Sessions, including setup of Special Folders

  • Folder Redirection on web interface and using GPO

In the next chapter, we will learn about...