Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.1x Advanced Administration

Course Overview:

Get more value out of your XenApp and XenDesktop investment through the use of Workspace Environment Management,
Provisioning Services, Application Layering, advanced features, and troubleshooting tools. You’ll leave this course with
a good understanding of how to manage more complex solutions such as multi-zone environments spanning multiple
locations with configurations around StoreFront, the Delivery Controllers, and HDX. You’ll 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.

Module 1: Intermediate FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA)

• FMA Services
• SQL database connectivity and security
• Zones in FMA

Module 2: Workspace Environment

Management (WEM)
• Introduction to WEM
• Installation and configuration
• Administration
• (Additional WEM topics covered later in the course)

Module 3: The Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA)

• VDA registration in a multi zone environment
• VDA connection security
• Workspace Environment Management VDA agent

Module 4: App Layering

• App Layering architecture
• Configuring and assigning app layers
• Managing app layers

Module 5: User Environment

• Optimizing session machines with WEM
• Zone Preference
• User Profile Management with WEM

Module 6: StoreFront Optimization and Routing

• User experience optimizations
• Optimal Gateway routing and Zones
• Subscription Store

Module 7: HDX and Multimedia

• Enlightened Data Protocol (EDT)
• HDX virtual channel architecture
• Multimedia delivery and redirection
• Delivering Skype for Business with XenApp
and XenDesktop

Module 8: Supporting and Troubleshooting User connection issues

• Advanced connections and communication
• Troubleshooting tools
• Common misconfigurations

Module 9: Advanced Provisioning with Provisioning Services

• Getting started with Provisioning Services
• Provisioning Services Architecture

Module 10: Provisioning Services Infrastructure

• The PVS server role
• The Farm database
• The vDisk Store

Module 11: Streaming the vDisk

• Introduction to vDisks
• Machine preparation
• Streaming vDisks
• Boot methods

Module 12: Target Devices

• Introduction to target devices
• Data I/O
• Handling persistent and non-persistent data

Module 13: Integrating Provisioning Services with XenApp and XenDesktop

• XenDesktop Setup Wizard
• Device Collections
• Published Apps and Desktops
• Using Provisioning Services with XenApp and XenDesktop

Module 14: Provisioning Services Redundancy

• Farm component redundancy
• Store redundancy
• Database redundancy

Module 15: Supporting Provisioning Services

• Performing updates
• Auditing and support
• vDisk imaging
• Migrating vDisk images
• Troubleshooting