Getting started with XenDesktop 7.x : deliver desktops and applications to your end users, anywhere, anytime, with XenDesktop 7.x / Craig Thomas Ellrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellrod, Craig Thomas, author.

Series:

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citrix XenDesktop.

Computer networks--Remote access.

Computer networks.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Thomas Ellrod Craig: Craig has more than thirty years' experience in the computer industry and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, and a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He has held many positions in the computer industry including software programmer; support engineer; field and corporate system engineer; technical marketing manager; product marketing manager; and product manager. He has worked for companies such as Celerity Computing; Emulex; Pinnacle Micro; Sync Research; Cisco Systems; Citrix Systems; Extreme Networks; Akamai Technologies; and smaller startup ventures. Craig currently works for Akamai as a Solutions Engineer and System Architect in the Rockies region of the USA. He has authored patent applications and patent designs and received an innovation award while at Extreme Networks. Craig is passionate about Technical Marketing and has written many deployment guides, books, and video tutorials. Throughout his career, Craig has developed an in-depth, hands-on knowledge of virtualization, especially with regard to hypervisors such as Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, XenServer, Linux KVM, and others. Craig has written books on Technical Marketing, Getting Started with XenDesktop 7. x, and XenDesktop High Performance; he has also authored a XenApp 6. 5 video series. https: //www. linkedin. com/in/craigellrod

Summary:

Deliver desktops and applications to your end users, anywhere, anytime, with XenDesktop 7.x In Detail Citrix® is an established name in today's Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) era by virtue of their desktop and application virtualization platforms, with the capability to assign applications and contents in a secure manner. Getting Started with XenDesktop® 7.x provides the best way to learn how to build your own virtual desktop and application Site. You may not have a lot of time to read the Citrix® documentation, or attend a class, so this step-by-step guide is distilled into fast, concise chapters to quickly lead you through all of the important information to get your XenDesktop® 7.x deployment done. What You Will Learn Create a completely functioning VDI implementation Manage XenDesktop® using Studio, including machine catalogs, delivery groups, and Personal vDisks Customize user sessions using policies Learn how printing and USB redirection work and how to configure them Explore High Definition User Experience (HDX) and how it affects usability Deliver virtual applications with VM hosted apps Plug in to the different XenDesktop® services using the XenDesktop® SDK Use the Citrix® Receiver® to receive and run the virtual desktop on the client device Manage and monitor XenDesktop® using Studio and Director Secure the XenDesktop® Site using the NetScaler Gateway Build and deliver VDI from the cloud

Contents:

Intro

Getting Started with XenDesktop® 7.x

Table of Contents

Credits

Notice

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Getting started with Hypervisors

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Designing a XenDesktop® Site

The core components of a XenDesktop® Site

Terminology and concepts

Server side

Hypervisor

Database

Delivery Controller

Studio

Director

StoreFront

Virtual machines

The Virtual Desktop Agent

Server OS machines

Desktop OS machines

Active Directory

Desktop

XenApp®

Edgesight®

FlexCast®

Storage

The client side

Receiver

System requirements

StoreFront 2.1

Databases

The Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)

Server host

Designing a basic XenDesktop® Site

Scenario

Common Citrix® communication ports

Summary

2. Installing XenDesktop®

Planning the XenDesktop® installation

Step 1 - installing the controller (XD1)

Installing the components on XD1

Configuring a Site

Step 2 - installing StoreFront (XD2)

Installing the components on XD2

Creating a server certificate and adding a Site binding

Installing StoreFront

Step 3 - installing Director (XD3)

Installing the components on XD3

Step 4 - creating the virtual desktop and application delivery master images

Step 5 - installing the Virtual Delivery Agent on the master images

Creating the desktop master images.

Creating the application master images

Step 6 - configuring the StoreFront server

Step 7 - creating the machine catalogs

Creating desktops

Creating the application servers

Step 8 - creating the delivery groups

Creating desktop delivery groups

Creating the application delivery groups

Installation checkpoint

Step 9 - installing Citrix ReceiverTM on the client devices

Step 10 - testing the connection

Testing the desktops

Testing the applications

3. Managing Machine Catalogs, Hosts, and Personal vDisks

Machine catalogs

Prerequisites

Creating the master images

Adding and configuring the virtual machines

Creating the computer accounts

Creating a machine catalog

Operating systems and hardware

Windows desktop

Windows Server

Remote PC Access

Machine management

User experience

Managing the machine catalogs

Taking a snapshot of the master image

Updating the master image

Reverting to a previous master image

Managing the Active Directory computer accounts

Adding machines to a machine catalog

Modifying a machine catalog

Renaming a machine catalog

Deleting a machine catalog

Managing the hosts

Managing Personal vDisks

Updating Personal vDisks used by the master images

Adjusting the space available for applications

Disabling automatic resizing

Reallocating user profiles

4. Managing Delivery Groups

Managing the delivery groups

Creating a delivery group

Editing a delivery group

Managing desktop sessions

Logging off or disconnecting sessions

Sending messages to users

Managing the delivery group resources

Adding and reallocating desktops

Locating desktops, sessions, and delivery groups

Shutting down and restarting desktops

Removing desktops from delivery groups.

Deleting desktops from delivery groups

Restricting access to desktops

Using Smart Access

Using Exclusion filters

Securing the ICA® protocol communications

Managing power settings for desktops

Pools and buffers

Power state timers

Partial power management

Importing and exporting user data

Enabling and disabling the maintenance mode

Managing the server load

The server load index

The concurrent logon tolerance setting

Managing the hosted applications

Application desktop delivery groups

Application sharing

Publishing applications to multiple desktop groups

Content redirection

Creating an application

Managing and creating application desktop delivery groups

Managing application sessions

Modifying the applications

Managing the Delivery Controller environment

Controller discovery

Adding, moving, or removing Delivery Controllers

Moving a Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) to another Site

Active Directory OU-based controller discovery

Using SSL on controllers

Changing the default HTTP and HTTPS ports

5. Managing Policies

XenDesktop® Studio versus Microsoft Group Policy Editor

Administrative roles

Working with policies

Navigating policies

Accessing policies

Searching policies

Creating policies

Creating a policy in Studio

Creating a policy in Microsoft Group Policy Editor

Configuring policies

Configuring policy settings

Best practices for designing policy settings

Applying policies

Using default values

Using filters

Unfiltered policies

Filter modes

Using the same filters with different modes

Using different filters with similar modes

Implementing multiple policies

Implementing priorities

Implementing exceptions

The resulting set of policies

Running the Citrix® Group Policy Modeling Wizard.

Running the Microsoft Group Policy Results tool

Troubleshooting policy scenarios

Comparing policies

Implementing policies with NetScaler Gateway™

Implementing NetScaler Gateway™ policy filters

6. Managing Printing

How printing works

Using locally attached printers

Using network attached printers

Using default printing, preferences, and drivers

Setting printing preferences

Printing policies

Universal Print Server and Driver

Autocreation of printers

Mapping printers and drivers

Optimization of printing

7. Virtualizing USB Support

USB devices in virtualization

How XenDesktop® uses USB redirection

Enabling USB support

Preventing the mapping of USB devices

Using USB mass storage

USB redirection with XenApp® versus XenDesktop®

Using USB automatic redirection

Using voice and video

8. Virtualizing Storage and Backup

XenDesktop® storage considerations

Desktop storage

High Availability

Performance

IOPS

Personal vDisk

XenDesktop® storage requirements

Virtual desktop storage requirements - dedicated desktop model

Virtual desktop storage requirements - dedicated shared desktop model

Virtual desktop storage requirements - shared hosted desktop model

Backup and restore

Backing up a SQL Server

Restoring a SQL Server

Backing up and restoring VMs and user data

USB mass storage

9. High Definition Experience (HDX™)

Introducing high definition experience

HDX™ system requirements

The reality of HDX™

Aero redirection

Configuring Aero redirection or desktop composition redirection

Windows Media

Configuring Windows Media client-side fetching

Configuring real-time Windows Media multimedia transcoding

Flash Media

Configuring Flash redirection on a server.

Configuring Flash redirection on the client

HDX™ 3D

GPU versus vGPU

GPU

vGPU

HDX™ 3D requirements

Client

Server

HDX™ GPU sharing

HDX™ 3D - how it works

Installing and configuring HDX™ 3D

Upgrading HDX™ 3D

Configuring monitors for HDX™ 3D

Configuring image quality

Configuring audio

Configuring webcams

Configuring color compression

Configuring network priorities

Adaptive display

10. Application Delivery

Delivering applications

Differences between XenApp® and XenDesktop®

What's new?

What's gone?

What's changed?

What hasn't changed?

Application Delivery Controllers

Application Delivery Networks

11. Working with the XenDesktop® SDK

Microsoft Windows PowerShell

PowerShell snap-ins and cmdlets for XenDesktop®

Using the XenDesktop® SDK

Creating an SDK script

Troubleshooting using the XD PowerShell SDK

Useful desktop cmdlets

Useful controller cmdlets

Site debugging tools

Citrix Ready®

12. Working with Citrix ReceiverTM and Plugins

Understanding Receiver

Changing the Receiver settings

Pushing the Receiver settings from the server

Changing the Receiver settings from the client's desktop

Using plugins

The online plugin

Using workspace control

Changing the resolution of the virtual desktop

Moving the toolbar

Controlling local file access

Accessing devices

Accessing USB devices

Accessing local microphones and webcams

Redirecting Flash to a local device

Switching between virtual desktops

Logging off virtual desktops

Disconnecting from virtual desktops

Restarting a virtual desktop

Using Desktop Lock

Printing in virtual desktops

Understanding the keyboard input

The offline plugin

The CloudBridge™ plugin

Running Receiver on Microsoft Windows.

Running Receiver on Apple.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 10, 2014).

ISBN:

9781849689779

1849689776

OCLC:

879462067