What you need for this book

At its core, this book uses a number of machines running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, App-V 5 SP3, and management PCs running Windows 8.1. To take full advantage of later chapters as the book progresses, you also require access to System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and Citrix^? XenDesktop^? 7.6.

For the purposes of a test environment, the full infrastructure as described in this cookbook can be provisioned on any modern desktop PC with a VirtualBox (or Hyper-V client) instance, a quad-core processor, 32 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive.