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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

Using Citrix policies templates


A new feature introduced on XenApp 6.5 is the ability to use and create Citrix policy templates.

We can access the Templates tab in both in the Citrix AppCenter Console and the Group Policy Management Editor. We have two types of templates: User and Computer templates.

We can create our own templates from existing policies or use one of the four templates included on XenApp 6.5 as reference to start a new template. Included templates are listed here:

  • Citrix High Definition User Experience templates: These templates contain both Computer and User settings to deliver optimal audio, graphics, and video to our users.

  • Citrix High Server Scalability templates contain both Computer and User settings to allow us to run more user sessions per server.

  • Citrix Optimized Bandwidth for WAN templates includes Computer and User settings to deliver XenApp applications to users connected to our XenApp farm with high latency or low bandwidth connections.

  • Citrix Security and...