Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration

Strong foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7. Citrix recommends students prepare for this course by taking the following course: CWS-215 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration On-Premises and in Citrix Cloud.

• 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

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.

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 MultiLocation 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

CWS-315 Course Description

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7

Advanced Administration

Descrizione:

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 common issues 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