Introduction à Citrix XenApp 7.6 (CX8712)

Module 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

Module 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
• Resource allocation
• Microsoft licensing
• Citrix licensing
• Examples from the IT field
• Summary

Module 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 Services
• Access layer
• Citrix StoreFront
• NetScaler VPX
• Citrix Receiver
• Resource layer
• Server OS VDA
• Hardware layer
• Host requirements
• Domain infrastructure requirements
• Summary

Module 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

Module 5: Installing and Configuring Citrix StoreFront

• Installing Citrix StoreFront
• Configuring Citrix StoreFront
• SSL certificates
• Setting up the StoreFront site
• Configuring authentication methods
• Joining a secondary server to the StoreFront deployment
• Testing the StoreFront user access
• Summary

Module 6: Installing and Configuring NetScaler Gateway

• Installing the NetScaler Gateway VPX
• Configuring the NetScaler Gateway VPX
• 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

Module 7: Load Balancing with Citrix NetScaler

• Configuring Citrix NetScaler for load balancing
• Network requirements
• Verifying settings and licensing
• Obtaining SSL certificates
• Adding StoreFront servers in NetScaler
• Creating Service Groups
• Configuring a load balancing VIP
• Testing NetScaler load balancing
• Summary

Module 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

Module 9: Building Your First XenApp® Farm – Provisioning Services

• 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

Module 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 Gateway
• Accessing hosted applications via StoreFront
• App-V integration
• Summary

Module 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

Module 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

Module 13: Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks

• Troubleshooting methodology
• Notes and templates
• Research
• Citrix Knowledge Base
• Citrix discussion boards
• Community websites
• Case studies
• Provisioning Services
• 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

Module 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
• StoreFront 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