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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

Profiling Microsoft Office 2010


William Empire is the IT Manager of Brick Unit Construction. William decided to stream Office 2010 from XenApp servers to client machines. We will help him profile Office 2010 and then publish it to all users in Brick Unit Construction.

Note

Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 is not supported in XenApp 6.0 or 6.5.

The following process of configuring and profiling Office 2010 is based on the 32-bit version of Office 2010 (64-bit applications are not supported by Citrix Profiler 6.0 and 6.5).

William will use a KMS server to activate Office 2010 licenses. MAK license activation currently is not supported by Citrix.

Note

Latest Microsoft products such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft Office 2010, use a new type of product activation called Volume Activation (VA). To activate these operating systems or applications with VA, we can use either a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) or Key Management Service (KMS), requiring a KMS...