All of us in the IT world have to deal with upgrades—from the smallest binary on Patch Tuesday to complex upgrades of enterprise applications, databases, and storage. A pivotal part of administering a XenApp environment is keeping your systems as up to date as possible with the latest Citrix hotfixes and service packs. When it comes to major releases, such as XenApp 7.6, it is completely understandable and expected that companies will not migrate their production environment from 6.5 to the latest version right away. In all fairness to them, the architecture is so different between 6.x and 7.x that in some cases, it may not be recommended to do so until all applications are tested with 7.6 and newer operating systems, such as Windows 2012 R2. Since there is no upgrade path from XenApp 6.5 to 7.6, companies currently on 6.5 will need to build a brand new 7.6 infrastructure, conduct thorough testing, and slowly migrate users to a new environment...
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6
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.
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Why Citrix XenApp – Making the Case for App Virtualization
Designing a Citrix Solution to Fit Your Needs
Preparing Your System for XenApp Deployment
Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp
Installing and Configuring Citrix StoreFront™
Installing and Configuring NetScaler Gateway™
Load Balancing with Citrix NetScaler
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Machine Creation Services
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Administering a XenApp Environment – Application Management
Administering a XenApp Environment – Server Management
Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks
The Big Day – Going Live with Citrix XenApp
Index
Customer Reviews