Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD): Deliver App and Desktop Resources
Learn the art of building VM master images and the science of creating machine catalogs and delivery groups in this course as you also deploy the Citrix Workspace App client and Citrix Gateway.
What you'll learn
With the initial construction of your on-premises CVAD, formerly XenDesktop, environment now complete, it's time to dig in and use it. In this third course out of nine, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops: Deliver App and Desktop Resources, you'll explore the mechanics behind the creation of virtual machines and VM templates, their use in the creation of machine catalogs and delivery groups, and then the steps involved in getting users on the LAN, and from the outside, securely connected to desktops and apps.
First, you'll begin with the preparation of our virtual machine master images and the deployment of the Citrix VDA. Next, you'll use those VM templates to create a pair of machine catalogs; those catalogs you'll use to create a series of delivery groups that provision desktops and apps to specified user groups. Then, you'll switch over to the user's perspective and explore the deployment and use of Citrix's client-side app now called Citrix Workspace App. Finally, you'll securely extend the entire environment out to the rest of the world by deploying a pair of Citrix ADC appliances and enabling Citrix Gateway. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills to build a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment.
Table of contents
- Introduction 4m
- Introduce Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent 6m
- Understand Machine Creation Services Activities 2m
- A Word (and a Hack) on Windows Licensing 3m
- Configure a Master Image for MCS: The Steps 4m
- Configure a Master Image for MCS: The Demo 7m
- Optimize Master Images 4m
- Create Active Directory OUs for VDAs 2m
- Explore VDA for Remote PC 2m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 3m
- Understand Machine Catalogs and Catalog Types 7m
- Understand Delivery Groups 2m
- Understand Application Groups 2m
- Create Machine Catalogs: Pooled Random Single-session OSs 5m
- Side Note on Locked AD Accounts 2m
- Create Machine Catalogs: Multi-session OSs 1m
- Create Delivery Groups: Single-session OSs 6m
- Create Delivery Groups: Multi-session OSs 3m
- Explore Delivery Group Properties: Single-session OSs 6m
- Explore Delivery Group Properties: Multi-session OSs 5m
- Explore Application Properties 7m
- Create Application Groups 1m
- Create Published Content 2m
- Create Remote PC Catalogs 2m
- Update Machine Catalogs 3m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 3m
- Revisit Workspace App Communication Flow 2m
- Understand Deployment Options 8m
- Deploy Unconfigured Citrix Workspace App 1m
- Deploy Citrix Workspace App via Receiver for Web Sites 5m
- Deploy Citrix Workspace App via Automated Software Deployment 3m
- Configure Email-based StoreFront Discovery 4m
- Explore Group Policy Settings 2m
- Configure Pass-through Authentication and Trust XML Service Port 6m
- Explore Citrix Workspace App 2m
- Configure Receiver for HTML5 3m
- What This Module Covered 1m
- Introduction 3m
- Explore Citrix ADC Architecture 7m
- Install Citrix ADC 6m
- Perform Initial Citrix ADC Configuration 4m
- Configure High Availability 4m
- Prepare Citrix ADC Certificates 7m
- Configure Citrix Gateway for CVAD 11m
- Configure StoreFront for Gateway Access 7m
- Validate External Connectivity 5m
- Configure StoreFront Monitor for Load Balancing 3m
- Configure Server and Service Group for Load Balancing 3m
- Configure Load Balancing Virtual Server 5m
- What This Module Covered 2m