What this book covers

Chapter 1, XenDesktop^? 7.6 – Upgrading, Installation, and Configuration, will discuss in detail the way to upgrade to the latest release from the previous XenDesktop versions for both the MCS and PVS architectures. Moreover, we will install and configure the main platform components, such as the database (the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 platform), StoreFront^TM, and the Licensing Services.

Chapter 2, Configuring and Deploying Virtual Machines for XenDesktop^? 7.6, will show you how to interface XenDesktop^? with hypervisor's hosts for Farm and the VM-BASE image creation. All the recipes will be based on the latest releases of the supported hypervisors.

Chapter 3, Master Image Configuration and Tuning, is focused on the configuration and optimization operations that are realized on the base desktop, server, or the physical workstation images for future deployments.

Chapter 4, User Experience – Planning and Configuring, will discuss how to implement the profile management techniques, the virtual desktop agent versions (Server, Desktop, and the Remote PC), and the main version of the Citrix Receiver^TM component (agent and HTML5 agentless).

Chapter 5, Creating and Configuring a Desktop Environment, will perform the implementation and optimization activities for the infrastructural satellite components, such as Citrix Merchandising Server^TM or the CloudBridge^TM platform.

Chapter 6, Deploying Applications, will explain in detail how to deploy and migrate applications with the integrated XenApp^? platform: the Hosted applications, the Local Access App, Microsoft App-V, and the AppDNA^? platform.

Chapter 7, XenDesktop^? Infrastructure Tuning, will perform optimization activities to enrich the quality level of the VDI with the use of the XenDesktop^? policies and printers.

Chapter 8, XenDesktop^? Component Integration, will explain the setup and the configuration phases of the main infrastructural Citrix^? components that are required to enrich the XenDesktop^? offering (CloudBridge^?, NetScaler Gateway^?, and XenMobile^?).

Chapter 9, Working with Powershell, will be an advanced guide to Powershell modules. With these, we will realize the high level configurations by using the command line.

Chapter 10, Configuring the XenDesktop^? Advanced Logon, will explain the operations to implement the secure and strong authentication for the XenDesktop^? 7 architecture.