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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

Chapter 2. Designing a XenApp 6.5 Farm

Now that we have learned about the features of XenApp and the new features of XenApp 6.5, it's time for us to start the design of our XenApp 6.5 farm. The most important step before any XenApp deployment is, to understand the features of the product and design the architecture.

In this chapter, we will take a look at the case study that we will use in the book to implement XenApp 6.5: Brick Unit Constructions.

In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

  • Learning XenApp Farm terminology and concepts

  • Designing a basic XenApp architecture

  • Designing a basic Pilot plan

  • Creating a list of applications to publish in our XenApp farm

  • Reviewing a list of applications and deciding the best method to deliver them