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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

Management Consoles


Citrix offers a complete set of tools for managing servers, farms, published resources, and connections.

Citrix AppCenter Console

The Citrix AppCenter, formerly known as Citrix Delivery Services Console in XenApp 6.0 and Citrix Access Management Console in previous XenApp versions is a tool that integrates into the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and enables us to execute management tasks.

Using Citrix AppCenter console, we can set up and monitor servers, server farms, publish resources and sessions, configure policies and printers, and configure application access.

We can manage load balancing, troubleshoot alerts, diagnose problems in our XenApp farms, view hotfix information for our Citrix products, and track administrative changes.

Note

The Citrix AppCenter console is pretty similar to Citrix Delivery Services Console in XenApp 6.0, so most of the tasks in this chapter are similar, but we will find a few differences.

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