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.

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 
  

TARGET AUDIENCE

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

PRE-REQUISITE

Before taking this course, citrix recommends that students have:

• Knowledge of how previous versions of XenApp work
  
• Understanding of the third-party products invlolved in an implementation, such as Active Directory and databases
  
• Awareness of the impact og 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
  

3 days

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