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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

Overview of this book

If you want to effectively deploy the various components of Citrix XenApp to create an enterprise environment for application and desktop delivery, this hands-on guide is perfect for you. You start off by understanding the need and benefits of Citrix XenApp with respect to Virtualization technology. After this, you will get to grips with the requirement analysis and designing aspect of building XenApp systems and all the necessary installation and configuration procedures for Citrix XenApp, StoreFront and NetScalar Gateway are explained one by one in detail. Step-by-step, you will learn to deploy your first XenApp with the Machine Creation Services method and Provisioning Services method. After this, you will explore the administering part of applications and systems, followed by printing in the XenApp environment. Next, you will learn all the trips and tricks required to troubleshoot and support the XenApp environment. By the end of this book, you will be ready to go live with your new XenApp environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Index

Citrix® Profile Management


Profile management has been a challenge for IT for quite a while and even though there are several robust solutions on the market that facilitate administration, user profiles have remained somewhat complex, prone to data corruption, and are a major cause for delays in user login times to physical and virtual desktops alike. To tackle these challenges, Citrix has bundled into the XenApp product a free profile solution called Citrix Profile Management, also known as User Profile Management (UPM). This product combines the level of granularity and control needed by IT administrators to keep user profiles efficient, while avoiding the need to deploy a separate infrastructure for profile solution. UPM profiles can be configured to function as roaming or mandatory depending on the need of the environment (UPM does not officially use these terms as they are widely used in the Microsoft community). With roaming profiles, data saved in the profile is copied to a central...