Citrix XenDesktop 5 Administration

    

Summary:
This course provides the foundation necessary for administrators to effectively centralize and manage desktops in the datacenter and deliver them as a service to users anywhere. Students will learn how to select a desktop delivery model for each user group based on their needs, build proof-of-concept and production XenDesktop environments, assign virtual desktops to users and customize the user experience through policies. This course also provides instruction on how to build a Provisioning services farm to enable single-image desktop management, and how to host virtual machines on the client device using Citrix XenClient.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for IT professionals, such as server, network and system administrators, system engineers, analysts, consultants, architects Citrix Partner Network members.

Topics:

• Introducing XenDesktop
• Configuring the Hypervisor for Desktop Delivery
• Installing and Configuring XenDesktop
• Managing Desktop Catalogs and Groups
• Customizing the User Experience
• Monitoring XenDesktop Sites
• Streaming Desktops to Virtual and Physical Machines
• Creating a Shared vDisk
• Administering Provisioning Services Components
• Delivering Local VM Desktops

Prerequisites:
Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that students have the following: -A basic knowledge of the purpose and goals of virtualization technology -An understanding of computing architecture, including network and storage devices, device drivers and operating systems -Basic experience installing and administering Windows Server 2008 R2 -Basic understanding of server, desktop and application virtualization concepts

Last Update: May 25, 2013