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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By : Guillermo Musumeci
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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By: Guillermo Musumeci

Overview of this book

<p>XenApp 6 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. It reduces resources and costs for application distribution and management. Using Citrix XenApp 6, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> starts by introducing the basics of XenApp 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 Farms.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Farm terminology and concepts


Now is the moment to define the terminology we are going to use in this book. If you are new in the Citrix world, please pay attention to this section.

  • Multi-user environment is when applications are published on servers running remote desktop services and/or XenApp accessed by multiple users simultaneously.

  • XenApp server is the main software component of the Citrix application delivery infrastructure. The objective of XenApp servers is to deliver applications to user devices.

  • XenApp application servers are the farm servers that host published applications.

  • XenApp infrastructure servers are the farm servers that host services such as a license server or web interface. Usually, they do not host published applications.

  • Remote desktop services (RDS), formerly known as Terminal Services, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allows a user to access applications and data on a remote computer over a network. We need to install this component (and appropriate...