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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

Overview of this book

XenApp 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. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version 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 6.5 Farms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring audio using policies


William can configure audio through the Policies node of the Citrix AppCenter Console on XenApp 6.5 or Citrix Delivery Services Console on XenApp 6.0. He can control the audio settings using two policies located under the ICA policy: Audio and Bandwidth.

William can use the Audio policy to enable client machines to send and receive audio in sessions.

Enabling Audio Plug N Play

The Audio Plug N Play setting is a new policy available in XenApp 6.5 and allows the use of multiple audio devices, when it is Enabled.

Setting up audio quality

The Audio quality setting controls sound quality; available options are Low, Medium, and High (default option).

  • Low (low speed connections for low-bandwidth connections): Sounds delivered to the client machine are compressed up to 16 Kbps, causing a significant decrease in the quality of the sound, but providing a good performance for a low-bandwidth connection. With both audio playback and recording, the total bandwidth consumption...