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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

Implementing Printers


Another important concept on XenApp printer deployment is Printer Provisioning. This is the process by which XenApp makes printers available in a session. We can find two types of printer provisioning:

  • Static: When we connect to a server's local printer in a session, printers are provisioned once and always created in the sessions with the same properties.

  • Dynamic: When our users start a session, printers are created dynamically. Two of the most common methods of dynamic printer provisioning are Auto-creation, where printers are created automatically based on Citrix policies and User Provisioning, where users self-provision their printers.

As static printer provisioning is pretty easy to understand, we are going to talk about dynamic provisioning.

Auto-creation

The auto-creation of printer policy allows us to configure whether printers are automatically created within a user session or not, and allows us to configure which types of printers are automatically created.

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