Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Deployment, Troubleshootin

Designed to learn how to set up scalability, redundancy and security configurations. You will learn advance features to optimize management of your app and desktop images by building and combining App Layers and Workspace Environment Management, which can improve logon times, centralize user settings management, optimize the performance of machines running the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA).

In the advanced troubleshooting section, you will learn techniques to investigate many of the commonissues that can affect environment health. You’ll 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.

Is this course for me?

Built for experienced IT Professionals familiar with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 in an on-premises environment or Citrix Cloud looking to expand their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops skills to an advanced level. Potential students include administrators or engineers responsible for the Citrix Apps and Desktop 7 Site.

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Learning Objectives

How to implement advanced administration concepts such as backups, disaster recovery, scalability and redundancy consideration for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 Site
How to configure Workspace Environment Management to improve the end user environment and virtual resource consumption
App Layering skills such as how to create and administer OS, platform, application, elastic and user layers

Pre-Requisites

Citrix course materials are only available to delegates in e-courseware format. Delegates will be provided with instructions on how to access their e-courseware on day one of the event. Those delegates who are attending via either virtual or extended classroom will be required to provide either three monitors (to view courseware, labs and instructor demos simultaneously) or two monitors and a mobile device. Delegates will be required to have an active TCC (Training.Citrix.com) account in order to access course materials and labs.

Please set up Your TCC account up in advance of the course using the following link:

https://www.citrix.com/welcome/create-account/create-account-form.html

Please note: It is highly recommended that the delegate uses a personal email address (rather than company email) to set up their TCC account. If you do not wish to reference your company name when setting up your TCC account we recommend you use 'EDUCALC' as reference.

Should you encounter any issues in setting up your TCC account please ensure that you raise this directly with Citrix in advance of your event by visiting http://training.citrix.com then on the home page click, Help, then select Classroom Support, and submit a Critical or High priority request notifying Citrix of the course start date.

Technical pre-requisites

Strong foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7. Citrix recommends students prepare for this course by taking the following course: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration On-Premises and in Citrix Cloud.

Course Content

Backup, recovery and security considerations and configurations

Module 1: Implementing Redundancy and Scalability

StoreFront and Citrix Gateway
Site Infrastructure
Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent

Module 2: Managing a Virtual Apps and Desktops Environment with Multiple Locations Zones

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

Module 3: Implementing Backups and Disaster Recovery

Backups
Disaster Recovery Considerations
Disaster Recovery Process

Module 4: Implementing Advanced Authentication Methods

Multi-factor Authentication - RADIUS & OTP
Multi-factor Authentication - Smart Card Authentication
Federated Authentication - ADFS, SAML, and FAS

Module 5: Improving App and Data Security

Introduction to Application Security
Preventing Jailbreak Attacks
Minimizing the Impact of Attacks

Module 6: Securing Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent

TLS to VDA Encryption
GPOs and Citrix Policies
Image Management

Troubleshooting techniques and tools

Module 7: Introduction to Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Methodology Process (Standard Slide)
Resource Tools and Utilities
Introduction to PowerShell

Module 8: Troubleshooting Access Issues

Troubleshooting StoreFront
Troubleshooting Citrix Gateway

Module 9: Troubleshooting Delivery Controller Issues

Validating FMA Services

Module 10: Troubleshooting VDA Registration Issues

Troubleshooting VDA Registration

Module 11: Troubleshooting HDX Connection Issues

Troubleshooting HDX Connections

Module 12: Introduction to App Layering

App Layering Introduction
Architecture and How it Works

Module 13: Creating an OS Layer

The OS Layer

Module 14: Creating a Platform Layer

The Platform Layer

Module 15: Creating App Layers

The App Layers

Module 16: Creating Elastic App and User Layers

Elastic App Layering
User Layers

Module 17: Deploying a Layered Image using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Using Templates in App Layering
Using Layered Images in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site

Module 18: Exploring Layer Priority

Layer Priority

Module 19: Maintaining an App Layering Environment

Updating Layers
Maintaining and Updating the App Layering Environment
Common App Layering Considerations and Additional Resources

Workspace Environment Management (WEM) considerations and configuration

Module 20: Introduction to Workspace Environment Management (WEM)

Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Introduction
WEM Administration

Module 21: Using WEM to Centralize Environment Management

Managing User Resources with WEM
Managing Profiles with WEM
Managing Endpoints with the WEM Transformer Feature

Module 22: Using WEM for Performance Optimization

Optimizing Machine Performance with WEM
Optimizing User Experience with WEM

Module 23: Using WEM to Secure Environments

WEM Security Features

Module 24: Migrating and Upgrading WEM

Migrating to WEM
Upgrading a WEM Deployment
WEM Multi-Location Considerations

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