About this Course

This course provides experienced Citrix XenApp students with the skills required to implement Citrix XenApp 7.5. Students will learn how to configure a XenApp 7.5 environment that includes the following Citrix components: Delivery Controller, Director, Studio, MCS, NetScaler, Provisioning Services, and Receiver. Upon course completion, students will be able to implement and configure a XenApp 7.5 solution. This course includes access to a live lab environment.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for IT professionals, architects, systems engineers, server administrators, and Citrix Partners with prior Citrix XenApp experience.

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to:

• Recognize the basic requirements for a XenApp 7.5 implementation
• Explain the architecture and where the XenApp components fit in an implementation
• Identify how HDX policies, profile management, printing, and delegated administration are configured
• Explain how Provisioning Services, StoreFront, and Director work
• Identify how applications are made available
• Explain the new features in the release
• Set up SQL mirroring for high availability
• Install the Delivery Controller and set up a site
• Join a second Delivery Controller to a site for high availability
• Install and configure StoreFront for secure communications
• Configure NetScaler to load balance the connections to StoreFront
• Configure NetScaler to provide remote access
• Install the Virtual Delivery Agent on a virtual machine
• Create a Server OS machine catalog to provide hosted shared desktops and hosted applications to users
• Configure and optimize Provisioning Services
• Create Windows templates for use with Provisioning Services
• Create new vDisks and import existing vDisks into Provisioning Services
• Create a machine catalog using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard
• Create Delivery Groups and publish applications
• Deliver App-V applications
• Configure Receiver using email-based discovery
• Verify internal and external access to resources
• Configure load-evaluator policies for server-based VDAs Monitor an environment with Director
• Configure the logging of configuration changes
• Configure delegated administration
• Use PowerShell cmdlets

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that students have:

• Knowledge of how previous versions of XenApp work
• Understanding of the third-party products involved in an implementation, such as Active Directory and databases
• Awareness of the impact of design decisions on a production environment
• Experience implementing small scale environments of 100 servers or less for previous XenApp
• Experience performing day-to-day tasks required for ensuring maximum performance of application delivery on previous XenApp products
• Experience managing user accounts, apps, and services to given specifications

Course Outline

• Basic requirements for a XenApp 7.5 implementation
• The architecture and where the XenApp components fit in an implementation
• Identify how HDX policies, profile management, printing, and delegated administration are configured
• Explain how Provisioning Services, StoreFront, and Director work
• Identify how applications are made available
• Explain the new features in the release
• Set up SQL mirroring for high availability
• Install the Delivery Controller and set up a site
• Join a second Delivery Controller to a site for high availability
• Install and configure StoreFront for secure communications
• Configure NetScaler to load balance the connections to StoreFront
• Configure NetScaler to provide remote access
• Install the Virtual Delivery Agent on a virtual machine
• Create a Server OS machine catalog to provide hosted shared desktops and hosted applications to users
• Configure and optimize Provisioning Services
• Create Windows templates for use with Provisioning Services
• Create new vDisks and import existing vDisks into Provisioning Services
• Create a machine catalog using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard
• Create Delivery Groups and publish applications
• Deliver App-V applications
• Configure Receiver using email-based discovery
• Verify internal and external access to resources
• Configure load-evaluator policies for server-based VDAs
• Monitor an environment with Director
• Configure the logging of configuration changes
• Configure delegated administration
• Use PowerShell cmdlets