What this book covers

Chapter 1, Understanding the XenDesktop? and XenApp? Architecture, contains an introduction to the FMA architecture. It explains the strength and uniqueness of the new architecture and the latest version, 7.6. It also deals with the types of edition available for Citrix XenApp? and XenDesktop?. It also covers the use cases of Citrix XenApp?.

Chapter 2, Initiating the Hypervisor, covers the step-by-step installation of Citrix XenServer?, which acts as a hypervisor solution for Citrix XenApp?. It also contains the steps for creating the storage solution for the POC lab, and explains how to create a virtual machine on Citrix XenServer?.

Chapter 3, Setting Up the Infrastructure Components, covers the step-by-step installation of the four different infrastructure components—domain controller, DHCP, certificate authority, and SQL database—which work with Citrix XenApp? to support the Citrix XenApp? features and functionality.

Chapter 4, Setting Up the Citrix? Components, is one of the very important chapters of this book. In this chapter, you will actually start preparing and installing the Citrix? infrastructure. It covers the step-by-step installation of the components, such as License Server, Delivery Controller, StoreFront?, and also other Citrix? components.

Chapter 5, Setting Up the XenApp? Resources, contains the steps to configure the components. It explains how to prepare the master virtual machine and the master image for the virtual machine. It also lets you create Machine Catalog and delivery groups.

Chapter 6, Configuring Policies, explains the policies that can be implemented in the Citrix XenApp? infrastructure. As an administrator, you must be aware of how useful and complex can group policies for Citrix XenApp? be.

Chapter 7, Setting Up Citrix Provisioning Services?, covers the step-by-step installation of Citrix Provisioning Services?. It also contains the steps to configure the provisioning with which you can stream the OS images to physical or virtual machines, making life easy for the administrator when it comes to managing the operating system with software and system updates.

Chapter 8, Setting Up NetScaler?, covers the steps to use NetScaler?, also known as Swiss Army knife by Citrix?. Except the gateway and load balancing solution, it can do lots of stuff. It also covers the method of importing and configuring VPX and setting the gateway for StoreFront?.