This three-day instructor-led course teaches students how to implement and manage Win Server 2008 Hyper-V.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install and configure Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
- Understand Hyper-V Virtual Networking, Virtual hard drives
- Create and manage Virtual Machines on the Hyper-V server
- Monitor the performance of the Hyper-V server
- Learn to use existing virtual machines in the Hyper-V server
- Understand migrating issues and how System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) can be used to manage Hyper-V servers throughout the enterprise
- Use PowerShell to manage the Hyper-V server and the virtual machines hosted on the Hyper-V server
- Implement a disaster recovery plan for Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
Virtualization Management
Application Virtualization
This five-day instructor-led course will enable attendees to gain an understanding of the tools available in Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), including Application Virtualization, to improve their Change Management process and reduce support across their or their customer’s environment.
After completing the Application Virtualization segment of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the Microsoft Application Virtualization Management System and Architecture
- Plan and Deploy the Application Virtualization Management System
- Plan and Install the Application Virtualization Client
- Administer the Application Virtualization Management Server
- Perform advanced Application Virtualization Administration Tasks
- Plan and Deploy the Application Virtualization Sequencer
Presentation Virtualization
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a Terminal Services (TS) environment.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install and configure the TS role, settings, forest, domain and workgroup licensing
- Identify appropriate licensing scope
- Install the TS Licensing Role and configure for per-user and device licenses
- Manage the licensing lifecycle
- Configure TS connection properties using TS console and Group Policy
- Troubleshoot TS connection properties for single and multiple users
- Install and configure TS Web Access role service
- Configure a TS session broker for a load-balanced TS farm and TS Gateway properties
- Monitor active connections and troubleshoot connectivity issue
- Manage TS connections, resolve client connectivity issues and monitor connections
Citrix
Designed for experienced XenApp users, this course provides the foundation necessary to effectively deploy and administer Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2003 and its components, including Load Manager, Installation Manager, Web Interface, Application Streaming and Secure Gateway.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install XenApp in a Windows Server 2003 environment
- Install and configure Clients for Windows and Web Interface
- Configure and manage connection and printing policies for XenApp as well as server and server farm settings
- Configure ICA connection and session settings
- Deploy applications into an isolation environment
- Configure application streaming for XenApp
- Secure access to published resources
- Upgrade a Presentation Server 4.5 environment to XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2003
- Upgrade and configure the Streaming Profiler, Presentation Server Client to XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps and the Streaming Client to XenApp Plugin for Streamed Apps
- Configure the Client Detection Wizard in Web Interface
This course provides the foundation necessary to effectively deploy and administer Citrix XenApp 5.0 and its components, including Web Interface, application streaming and Secure Gateway. Learners will receive hands-on training for installing XenApp and plug-ins and for using the various administrative consoles to configure policies, individual server and server farm settings, isolation environments, streaming applications and much more.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the new features since Presentation Server 4.0
- Install XenApp 5.0 in a Windows Server 2008 environment
- Install and configure Client for Windows
- Configure and manage connection and printing policies for XenApp
- Configure ICA connection and session settings
- Identify the different administrative privilege levels
- Create a configuration logging database
- Configure application streaming for XenApp
- Install and configure Web Interface
- Identify the additional components included in the XenApp Platinum edition
This course provides the foundation necessary to effectively deploy and administer Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2003 and its components, including Load Manager, Installation Manager, Web Interface, Application Streaming and Secure Gateway.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install XenApp in a Windows Server 2003 environment
- Install and configure Clients
- Publish applications, resources and content
- Configure and manage policies, server and server farm settings
- Configure ICA connection and session settings
- Configure load evaluators and monitor load using Load Manager
- Deploy applications using Installation Manager and in an isolation environment
- Configure and manage network and session printing
- Install and configure Web Interface
- Configure streaming profiles, install the Streaming Client and configure XenApp to stream applications
- Secure access to published resources through ICA encryption, Citrix SSL Relay and Secure Gateway
- Upgrade a Presentation Server 4.5 environment XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2003
- Upgrade and configure the Streaming Profiler, the Presentation Server Client XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps and the Streaming Client XenApp Plugin for Streamed Apps
- Configure the Client Detection Wizard in Web Interface
This course introduces administrators and IT professionals to Citrix Password Manager 4.5 and prepares them to install, administer and support the product. Interactive instructor-led discussion and hands-on labs and exercises guide learners through administrator tasks preparing them to manage Citrix Password Manager 4.5 deployments.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
· Install Citrix Password Manager 4.5
· Create application definitions in the Console
· Configure password management
· Configure settings for agent software deployment
· Identify advanced configurations such as Hot Desktop and Account Self-Service
CXA-201-1I Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 provides the foundation necessary to effectively deploy and administer Citrix XenApp and its components, including Web Interface, Application Streaming, Load Manager, Installation Manager, and Secure Gateway.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install Citrix XenApp
- Install and distribute the XenApp plugin software
- Create and customize Web Interface sites
- Publish applications, server desktops and content
- Configure XenApp Web and XenApp Services sites to stream applications
- Create and assign load evaluators
- Configure, apply and prioritize policies in a XenApp environment
- Configure printers and printer policies and manage print drivers and printer bandwidth
- Create and configure Citrix administrators and their permissions
- Configure display and SpeedScreen settings
- Configure ICA encryption, SSL Relay and Secure Gateway
- Install and configure Installation Manager
- Identify the key features of Citrix XenApp Platinum Edition additional components
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This course provides learners with the skills necessary to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot network environments running Citrix® Presentation Server™ 4.5 software. Learners are introduced to the tools used to monitor the Presentation Server farm, record farm activity and generate reports. In addition, learners take away the skills needed to maintain data and server integrity and to scale, optimize and troubleshoot the Presentation Server farm.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Determine when and how to use monitoring tools to administer network environments running Presentation Server software
- Configure metrics, alarms and Health Monitoring and Recovery tests
- Plan and optimize the server farm
- Monitor and troubleshoot connectivity to the data store, the Citrix IMA Service and the ICA communication channel and published and streamed applications
- Troubleshoot session initialization, client settings and Application Streaming sessions
- Determine how Citrix and Active Directory policies are applied and troubleshoot unexpected policy results
- Monitor, optimize and troubleshoot printing and printing policies as well as Web Interface and Secure Gateway
This workshop-style course provides learners with valuable experience building and testing designs for Citrix Access Suite 4.0. Over 80% of the class is conducted through hands-on exercises. Learners build and configure an environment comprised of Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Password Manager 4.1 and Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition 4.2 to meet the needs of a fictitious company. After configuring each product, learners test their configurations to ensure correctness. This course culminates in a final test of the entire environment, in which learners log in to their Presentation Server farm through Access Gateway with Advanced Access Control and launch published applications for which the Password Manager agent provides passwords. Learners conduct the test with different user accounts to ensure the various policies are configured correctly.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and describe Windows concepts that are instrumental to building and testing an environment with Presentation Server
- Identify and describe Presentation Server concepts and features that are instrumental to building and testing an environment with Presentation Server
- Set administrative rights within the Presentation Server Console
- Configure zones and zone preference and failover correctly based on environmental requirements
- Set restrictions for user groups
- Publish and configure applications, including applications in Application Isolation Environments
- Create a custom load evaluator for use during testing
- Configure virtual IP addressing, printers for remote users, Web Interface 4.0 and a Web Interface Site
- Configure and distribute the Client for Web
- Test the configuration
- Identify and describe Password Manager concepts and features that are instrumental to building and testing an environment with Password Manager
- Extend the Active Directory schema and create the central store
- Install server certificates and the Password Manager console
- Install and configure the Password Manager service
- Configure identify verification, including creating a new question group and specifying key recovery
- Configure three different Password Manager policies and definitions for Windows-, Java-, web- and host-based applications
- Create two different user configurations, specifying policies, applications and password sharing groups
- Create and distribute a Password Manager agent installation image
- Register the Password Manager account self-service
- Enable the self-service password reset feature on Web Interface
- Configure password provisioning
- Test the configuration
- Install and configure Access Gateway Advanced Edition 4.2
- Create and configure resources such as:
- A Web Interface web site
- Web resources
- File shares
- Create filters for use in endpoint analysis scans and policies
- Configure endpoint analysis scans such as :
- A MAC address scan
- A Web browser scan
- Create policies to grant access to resources
- Create and deploy logon points
- Integrate with Presentation Server to provide Smart Access to published applications
- Test their configurations in their own environment
This course provides learners with the skills necessary to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot network environments running XenApp for Windows Server 2008 software.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Determine when and how to use monitoring tools to administer network environments running Citrix XenApp software
- Configure metrics, alarms and Health Monitoring and Recovery tests
- Plan and optimize the server farm
- Monitor and troubleshoot connectivity to the data store and the Citrix IMA Service and the ICA communication channel
- Troubleshoot session initialization, client settings and Application Streaming sessions
- Monitor and troubleshoot published and streamed applications
- Determine how Citrix and Active Directory policies are applied and troubleshoot unexpected policy results
- Monitor, optimize and troubleshoot printing and printing policies
- Monitor, optimize and troubleshoot Web Interface and Secure Gateway
This course introduces administrators and IT professionals to Citrix Access Gateway 4.5 Advanced Edition and prepares them to install, configure and administer the product. Interactive instructor-led discussion and hands-on labs and exercises guide learners through administrator tasks, and prepares them to manage Citrix Access Gateway 4.5 Advanced Edition deployments.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install Access Gateway Advanced Edition
- Configure resources using the Access Management Console
- Create continuous and endpoint analysis scans, filters and policies, and logon points
- Configure an Access Gateway appliance for use with Advanced Access Control software
- Access resources through Access Gateway Advanced Edition
This course covers information administrators and other IT professionals need to successfully deploy and manage Access Gateway 8.1 Enterprise Edition and the Access Gateway Plugins. Designed to provide real-world experience, hands-on labs allow learners to configure an Access Gateway server and then connect to the server using the Configuration Utility.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand how the Access Gateway Enterprise Edition differs from the Standard and Advanced Editions.
- Perform the initial configuration of the Access Gateway server.
- Install Access Gateway Plugins for Windows, ActiveX and Java.
- Configure VPN virtual servers.
- Create policies to customize VPN behavior.
- Customize client experience and login pages.
- Configure Access Gateway to integrate with XenApp.
- Create and configure policies and profiles.
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