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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
9
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Index

Case studies


The rest of the chapter is mostly case studies based on actual cases and issues that I have handled either during my time as a support engineer at Citrix or from later customer-facing projects. Keep in mind that all confidential information has been removed and these are only my own views and experiences and in no way do they represent official statements from my former or current employer. For the purpose of being consistent with my troubleshooting methodology, I have used my template; however, this is a shorter and modified version of it to avoid wordiness.

Provisioning Services™

The first series of case studies are based on Citrix Provisioning Server. PVS is a critical component of enterprises and the XenApp and XenDesktop environments and is often blamed for outages even if the root cause is different (for example, underlying network or storage issues). Problems in the PVS systems usually have high visibility within an organization because the delivery of XenApp Server operating...