Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration

Designed to learn how to set up scalability, redundancy and security configurations. In this Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration course 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.

Prerequisites

In order for you to be able to fully complete your labs it is required for learners to have a valid email account and a mobile phone on which you can install an authenticator app on in order to activate Multifactor Authentication. please note, you will not be asked to submit your email address and your email address will be used for no other purpose than activation of the Multifactor Authentication.

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 this Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration course 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.

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: CWS-215 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration On-Premises and in Citrix Cloud.

Delegates will learn how to:

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

We offer a comprehensive range of Citrix courses.

• Course content

  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