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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

Application streaming


Application streaming simplifies application delivery to users by virtualizing applications on client machines. We can install and configure an application centrally and deliver it to any XenApp server or client machine on demand. One of the major features of application streaming is the ability to run multiple versions of an application on the same client; for example, we can run Office 2007 and Office 2010 on the same client machine. Also, application streaming is useful to run applications that can't run on XenApp.

Using streamed applications provides a lot of benefits, including:

  • The ability to install an application once on a profiler workstation and copy and replicate to fileservers within the company.

  • Use of streamed applications reduces patching complexity in large environments.

  • Updates to a streamed application don't require re-profiling applications.

  • All streamed applications run within isolated environments that keep the applications from interfering with others...