CWS-315: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration

Overview

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.

Who Should Attend

Course Pre-requisites

Strong foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7. Citrix recommends students prepare for this course by taking the following course:

Course Outline

Backup, recovery and security considerations and configurations

  • StoreFront and Citrix Gateway
  • Site Infrastructure
  • Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent
  • 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
  • Backups
  • Disaster Recovery Considerations
  • Disaster Recovery Process
  • Multi-factor Authentication – RADIUS & OTP
  • Multi-factor Authentication – Smart Card Authentication
  • Federated Authentication – ADFS, SAML, and FAS
  • Introduction to Application Security
  • Preventing Jailbreak Attacks
  • Minimizing the Impact of Attacks
  • TLS to VDA Encryption
  • GPOs and Citrix Policies
  • Image Management

Troubleshooting techniques and tools

  • Troubleshooting Methodology Process (Standard Slide)
  • Resource Tools and Utilities
  • Introduction to PowerShell
  • Troubleshooting StoreFront
  • Troubleshooting Citrix Gateway
  • Troubleshooting VDA Registration
  • Troubleshooting HDX Connections Citrix App Layering Considerations and Configuration

Citrix App Layering Considerations and Configuration

  • App Layering Introduction
  • Architecture and How it Works
  • Elastic App Layering
  • User Layers
  • Using Templates in App Layering
  • Using Layered Images in a Citrix Virtual Apps and
    Desktops Site
  • Updating Layers
  • Maintaining and Updating the App Layering Environment
  • Common App Layering Considerations and Additional Resources Workspace Environment Management (WEM) considerations and configuration

Workspace Environment Management (WEM) considerations and configuration

  • Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Introduction
  • WEM Administration
  • Managing User Resources with WEM
  • Managing Profiles with WEM
  • Managing Endpoints with the WEM Transformer Feature
  • Optimizing Machine Performance with WEM
  • Optimizing User Experience with WEM
  • Migrating to WEM
  • Upgrading a WEM Deployment
  • WEM Multi-Location Considerations

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