Overview
5 Days $5,500
The Managing App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 course provides students with the skills required to effectively support a Citrix application and desktop virtualisation solution in a Windows Server 2012 R2 environment. During this course, students will learn how to successfully manage, monitor, support and troubleshoot a XenDesktop 7.6 solution, which includes growing the implementation to accommodate changes in the environment (adding new applications, new users, new desktops, and new policies) and troubleshooting common issues.
- XenDesktop Architecture Overview
- User Layer
- Access Layer
- Control Layer
- Resource Layer
- Management Layer
- XenDesktop Site
- Ports
- Reinforcement Exercise: XenDesktop 7 Components
- Managing Licenses in Studio
- Managing Delegated Administration
- Monitoring Configuration Logs
- Troubleshooting: Managing Licenses and Delegated Administration
- Reinforcement Exercise: Configuring Roles and Scopes
- Architecture Overview
- Creating a Virtual Machine from an ISO
- Managing Virtual Machines within a Hypervisor
- Adjusting Virtual Machine or Template Resources
- Configuring and Customising Alerts
- Troubleshooting: Managing and Monitoring Hypervisors
- Reinforcement Exercise 1: Creating a Virtual Machine Template
- Reinforcement Exercise 2: Completing the Setup Process After a Sysprep
- Architecture Overview
- Managing Machine Catalogs
- Machine Creation Services
- Creating a Machine Catalog
- Managing Delivery Groups
- Managing Resources
- Deleting Resources
- Troubleshooting: Managing Desktops and Applications
- Reinforcement Exercise: Delivering Server Desktops
- StoreFront Architectural Overview
- StoreFront Management Console
- Creating a New Store
- Hiding a Store
- Managing Authentication
- Enabling End Users to Change Their Passwords
- Managing Delivery Controllers
- Managing Receiver Updates
- Removing a Store
- Troubleshooting: Managing StoreFront
- Reinforcement Exercise: Creating and Configuring a New Store
- Policy Precedence (Studio vs. Group Policy Objects)
- Creating Policies Using Studio
- Creating Policies Using Group Policy
- Obtaining the Resultant Set of Policy Using Group Policy Objects
- Troubleshooting: Managing Policies
- Managing End-User Profiles
- Troubleshooting: Profile Management
- Reinforcement Exercise 1: Working with Policies
- Reinforcement Exercise 2: Working with Profiles
- Director Overview
- Monitoring within the Director Dashboard
- Monitoring and Managing End-User Sessions
- Troubleshooting: Managing Sites, Sessions, and End Users with Director
- Reinforcement Exercise: Using Director
- Managing Printing
- Default Printing Behaviour
- Configuring Client Printing
- Managing Printer Drivers
- Optimising Printing Performance
- Discussion Question
- Setting Up and Managing the Universal Print Server
- Troubleshooting: Managing Printing
- Reinforcement Exercise: Managing Printing
- Citrix Provisioning Services
- Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services
- Provisioning Services Overview and Architecture
- Discussion Question
- Navigating the Provisioning Services Console
- Creating the vDisk
- Setting the vDisk Mode
- Creating the Machine Catalog
- Discussion Question
- Promoting Updated Versions
- Discussion Question
- VHD Chain of Differencing Disks
- Merging VHD Differencing Disks
- Troubleshooting: Provisioning Services
- Reinforcement Exercise: Provisioning Services
This course is recommended for Operators and Administrators that need to manage an existing XenDesktop 7.6 solution.
Before attending this course, students are recommended to have:
- An understanding of server, desktop and application virtualisation concepts
- Experience with Windows Server 2012 R2, specifically Active Directory (Domains, Groups and User Accounts, Organisational Units, Group Policy Objects)
- Experience with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 user interfaces
- Basic storage knowledge (manage existing storage types, add new storage)
- Basics of Citrix licensing
- Familiarity with at least one hypervisor (XenServer, Hyper-V, or vSphere)
- Basic understanding of the different types of profiles (local, roaming, mandatory)
- Completed the following courses or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge: CXD-102 Introduction to XenDesktop 7
