Course Overview
Designed for experienced IT professionals, this course expands the foundational administrative skills by introducing scalability, redundancy, and advanced configurations. You will learn to build and combine App Layers to optimize management of your app and desktop images. You will learn how to implement Workspace Environment Management to improve logon times, centralize user settings management, and optimize the performance of machines. You will leave this course with a good understanding of how to manage more complex solutions such as multi-location environments with configurations around StoreFront, the Delivery Controllers, App Layering, and Workspace Environment Management.
Who should attend
For administrators and engineers
Prerequisites
- Strong foundational knowledge of:
- Windows Server and Desktop operating systems.
- Active Directory, Policies, Profiles, Networking and Hypervisors.
Course Objectives
- How to implement advanced administration concepts such as backups, disaster recovery, scalability, and redundancy for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Site
- Create, administer, and manage App Layering OS, platform, application, elastic, and user layers.
- Integrate Citrix App Layering into a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop deployment.
- Install and initialize WEM and integrate into Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS.
- Configure WEM features to improve the end user environment and virtual resource consumption.
- Migrate an on-premises WEM deployment to WEM service.
Follow On Courses
Course Content
- Intro to CVAD Advanced Configuration, Redundancy, and Scalability
- Manage CVAD Multiple Locations
- Backups and Disaster Recovery
- Intro to WEM Architecture Components
- WEM Deployment and Initial Installation
- WEM System and Log On Optimization
- WEM Security and Lockdown Features
- The WEM Agent
- WEM Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting
- Upgrading WEM and Migration to WEM Service
- Intro to App Layering and Architecture Overview
- OS, Platform, and App Layers
- Elastic App and User Layers
- Layer Priority and Maintaining an App Layering Environment