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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

Environment must-do's


Even though every customer is different and every environment is specific to the needs of the company that will be using it, there are some general rules of thumb when a new system is built. The first one (and I can't repeat this enough) is testing, testing, and testing.

Functional and performance testing

In IT, a design is only as good as the worst possible scenario that can happen in your environment. While you cannot completely anticipate or prevent an outage before it occurs, if you do thorough testing before placing your system in production, you can rectify many issues and inconsistencies before they ever have a chance to impact your users. To start small, first you need to validate an architecture and ensure that the XenApp solution was built as designed. If any requirements have changed along the way, they need to be accounted for and the design needs to be adjusted to satisfy them. For instance, if the environment was initially built for 600 users, but all of...