Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration (CWS-315)

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$5,000.00

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5 Days

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Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course 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.

This class includes an exam voucher.

Course Objectives

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

Who Should Attend?

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.

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Course Prerequisites

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.

Agenda

1 - Implementing Redundancy and Scalability

StoreFront and Citrix Gateway
Site Infrastructure
Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent

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

3 - Implementing Backups and Disaster Recovery

Backups
Disaster Recovery Considerations
Disaster Recovery Process

4 - Implementing Advanced Authentication Methods

Multi-factor Authentication - RADIUS & OTP
Multi-factor Authentication - Smart Card Authentication
Federated Authentication - ADFS, SAML, and FAS

5 - Improving App and Data Security

Introduction to Application Security
Preventing Jailbreak Attacks
Minimizing the Impact of Attacks

6 - Securing Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent

TLS to VDA Encryption
GPOs and Citrix Policies
Image Management

7 - Introduction to Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Methodology Process (Standard Slide)
Resource Tools and Utilities
Introduction to PowerShell

8 - Troubleshooting Access Issues

Troubleshooting StoreFront
Troubleshooting Citrix Gateway

9 - Troubleshooting Delivery Controller Issues

Validating FMA Services

10 - Troubleshooting VDA Registration Issues

Troubleshooting VDA Registration

11 - Troubleshooting HDX Connection Issues

Troubleshooting HDX Connections

12 - Introduction to App Layering

App Layering Introduction
Architecture and How it Works

13 - Creating an OS Layer

The OS Layer

14 - Creating a Platform Layer

The Platform Layer

15 - Creating App Layers

The App Layers

16 - Creating Elastic App and User Layers

Elastic App Layering
User Layers

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

18 - Exploring Layer Priority

Layer Priority

19 - Maintaining an App Layering Environment

Updating Layers
Maintaining and Updating the App Layering Environment
Common App Layering Considerations and Additional Resources

20 - Introduction to Workspace Environment Management (WEM)

Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Introduction
WEM Administration

21 - Using WEM to Centralize Environment Management

Managing User Resources with WEM
Managing Profiles with WEM
Managing Endpoints with the WEM Transformer Feature

22 - Using WEM for Performance Optimization

Optimizing Machine Performance with WEM
Optimizing User Experience with WEM

23 - Using WEM to Secure Environments

WEM Security Features

24 - Migrating and Upgrading WEM

Migrating to WEM
Upgrading a WEM Deployment
WEM Multi-Location Considerations

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