Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
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Erschienen am 13. Januar 2025
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978-1-78439-873-6 (ISBN)
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Why Citrix XenApp® - Making the Case for App Virtualization
- Understanding virtualization
- Application virtualization
- Understanding Remote Desktop Services
- Introducing Citrix XenApp®
- Design transformation in 7.x
- New features in XenApp® 7.6
- Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6
- The user logon process
- Citrix® licensing
- Microsoft licensing
- Other components
- XenApp® supportability
- XenApp® certifications
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Designing a Citrix® Solution to Fit Your Needs
- Project planning
- Reference Architectures
- Designing XenApp® for an enterprise
- Goals
- Users
- Concurrency rate
- Active Directory considerations
- User location
- Devices and peripherals
- Networks
- Storage
- Profiles
- Citrix® Profile Management
- Folder Redirection
- Core applications
- Printing
- Creating your first architecture
- The host hardware
- The VM infrastructure
- Host A
- Host B
- Host C
- Resource allocation
- Microsoft licensing
- Citrix® licensing
- Examples from the IT field
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Preparing Your System for XenApp® Deployment
- Control layer
- XenApp® Delivery Controller
- Citrix® Studio
- Citrix® Director
- Citrix® License Server
- SQL Server
- SQL Server mirroring
- SQL Server clustered instances
- AlwaysOn Availability Groups
- Database permissions
- Database collation
- Citrix Provisioning ServicesT
- Access layer
- Citrix® StoreFrontT
- NetScaler VPXT
- Citrix ReceiverT
- Resource layer
- Server OS VDA
- Hardware layer
- Host requirements
- Domain infrastructure requirements
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp®
- Creating a VM in XenCenter®
- Installing the Citrix XenApp® 7.6 Delivery Controller
- Site setup
- Remote PC access
- Scale your deployment - existing site
- Installing Citrix License Server 11.12.1
- Configuring Citrix XenApp® 7.6
- Hypervisor support
- XenApp® Service Account
- Securing the host connection with SSL
- Configuring the Delivery Controller
- Machine catalogs
- Delivery Groups
- Policies
- Logging
- Configuration
- Joining a second controller to the XenApp® site
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Installing and Configuring Citrix® StoreFrontT
- Installing Citrix StoreFrontT
- Configuring Citrix StoreFrontT
- SSL certificates
- Setting up the StoreFrontT site
- Configuring authentication methods
- Joining a second ary server to the StoreFrontT deployment
- Testing the StoreFrontT user access
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Installing and Configuring NetScaler GatewayT
- Installing the NetScaler Gateway VPXT
- Configuring the NetScaler Gateway VPXT
- Licensing your NetScaler® appliance
- Basic modes and settings
- Configuring High Availability
- Configuring the LDAP authentication
- Adding a Subnet IP
- Managing SSL certificates
- Configuring session policies and profiles
- Creating a virtual server
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Load Balancing with Citrix® NetScaler®
- Configuring Citrix NetScaler® for load balancing
- Network requirements
- Verifying settings and licensing
- Obtaining SSL certificates
- Adding StoreFrontT servers in NetScaler®
- Creating Service Groups
- Configuring a load balancing VIP
- Testing NetScaler® load balancing
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Building Your First XenApp® Farm - Machine Creation Services
- Explaining Machine Creation Services
- Preparing your master image
- Designing your master image VM
- Configuring your master image for Citrix XenApp®
- Installing the Citrix® VDA on the master VM
- Building XenApp® Catalogs with MCS
- Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS
- What is the maintenance mode, anyway?
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Building Your First XenApp® Farm - Provisioning ServicesT
- Getting started with PVS
- Single image management
- The power of read-only
- Scalability
- Infrastructure needs
- Licensing
- MCS versus PVS
- Designing the PVS environment
- Write caching in PVS
- Building the PVS infrastructure
- Installing Citrix® PVS
- Configuring Citrix® PVS
- Configuring the PVS target device software
- Running the XenDesktop® setup wizard in PVS
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Administering a XenApp® Environment - Application Management
- Application delivery - hosted apps
- Creating Delivery Groups
- Updating hosted applications - MCS
- Updating hosted applications - PVS
- Accessing hosted applications via NetScaler GatewayT
- Accessing hosted applications via StoreFrontT
- App-V integration
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Administering a XenApp® Environment - Server Management
- RDS licensing
- Citrix® Profile Management
- So, why UPM profiles?
- Configuring profile management in a XenApp® environment
- Profile Streaming
- Taking advantage of Session Prelaunch and Session Linger
- Facilitating XenApp® administration with Citrix® policies
- How do you get started with Citrix® policies?
- The role of Active Directory Group Policies
- Disabling Administrative Tools
- Hiding XenApp® system drives
- Folder Redirection
- The potential drawbacks of Folder Redirection
- Upgrading VDA and PVS target device software
- Upgrading the VDA via MCS
- Upgrading the Citrix® Agents via PVS
- There must be another way.
- XenApp® permissions and delegated administration
- Monitoring the XenApp® site
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Printing
- Printing in the Windows world
- What happens in the background?
- Windows Printing challenges
- Printing in a Citrix® world
- The fundamentals
- Printer provisioning
- Local printers versus network printers
- The Citrix® Print Management service
- Citrix® Printing policies
- Autocreation
- UPS and UPD
- So, how do we deploy UPS, anyway?
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks
- Troubleshooting methodology
- Notes and templates
- Research
- Citrix® Knowledge Base
- Citrix® discussion boards
- Community websites
- Case studies
- Provisioning ServicesT
- Case 1 - Retries
- Case 2 - BNIStack errors
- Case 3 - Target device boot failure
- XenApp® and XenDesktop®
- Case 1 - 1030 error when launching the app
- Case 2 - RDS license errors
- Case 3 - Citrix® Studio showing incorrect VM states
- Summary
- Chapter 14: The Big Day - Going Live with Citrix XenApp®
- Environment must-do's
- Functional and performance testing
- Database backups
- NetScaler® configuration backup
- Testing HA
- NetScaler® HA
- StoreFrontT HA
- Delivery Controller HA
- Production rollout strategies
- Going virtual for the first time
- Virtual-to-virtual migration
- Upgrading to the latest version
- Expansion of existing systems
- Summary
- Index
