CWS-315 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration
Get more value out of your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.1x investment through the use of Workspace Environment Management, Provisioning Services, Application Layering, and advanced features. Students leave this course with a good understanding of how to manage more complex solutions such as multizone environments spanning multiple locations with configurations around StoreFront, the Delivery Controllers, and HDX. Students will gain the skills to improve logon times, user personalization, and resource performance through Workspace Environment Management. Also, learn to optimize management of your app and desktop images by building and combining App Layers. End the course by learning to install, configure, and manage Provisioning Services in accordance with leading practices.
This course includes a voucher to take the related exam (1Y0-311 Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 Advanced Administration) and earn your Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization (CCP-V) certification.
Course Objectives
How to configure Workspace Environment Management to improve the end user environment and virtual resource consumption
Understand Zones in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.1x and how to account for user and desktop locations and optimal connection and registration
How to build and manage App Layers to minimize image sprawl with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.1x
Understand and configure HDX channels and protocols for improved performance delivering multimedia and data over network connections
Agenda
- StoreFront and Citrix Gateway
- Site Infrastructure
- Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent
- VDA Registration in a Multi-Zone Environment
- Zone Preference
- Optimal Gateway Routing and Zones
- Managing StoreFront Store Subscriptions in a Multi-
- Location Environment
- StoreFront and Citrix ADC Branding
- Backups
- Disaster Recovery Considerations
- Disaster Recovery Process
- Multi-factor Authentication – RADIUS & OTP
- Multi-factor Authentication – Smart Card Authentication
- Federated Authentication – ADFS, SAML, and FAS
- Introduction to Application Security
- Preventing Jailbreak Attacks
- Minimizing the Impact of Attacks
- TLS to VDA Encryption
- GPOs and Citrix Policies
- Image Management
- Troubleshooting Methodology Process (Standard Slide)
- Resource Tools and Utilities
- Introduction to PowerShell
- Troubleshooting StoreFront
- Troubleshooting Citrix Gateway
- Validating FMA Services
- Troubleshooting VDA Registration
- Troubleshooting HDX Connections
- App Layering Introduction
- Architecture and How it Works
- The OS Layer
- The Platform Layer
- The App Layers
- Elastic App Layering
- User Layers
- Using Templates in App Layering
- Using Layered Images in a Citrix Virtual Apps and
- Desktops Site
- Layer Priority
- Updating Layers
- Maintaining and Updating the App Layering Environment
- Common App Layering Considerations and Additional
- Resources
- Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Introduction
- WEM Administration
- Managing User Resources with WEM
- Managing Profiles with WEM
- Managing Endpoints with the WEM Transformer Feature
- Optimizing Machine Performance with WEM
- Optimizing User Experience with WEM
- WEM Environments
- Migrating to WEM
- Upgrading a WEM Deployment
- WEM Multi-Location Considerations
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Course Type: Instructor Led