Designed for experienced IT professionals, this course expands foundational administrative skills by introducing scalability, redundancy, and security configurations as well as troubleshooting techniques for common issues. You will learn to build and combine App Layers to optimize management of your application 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.
Learning Objectives
- How to implement advanced administration concepts such as troubleshooting, backups, disaster recovery, scalability and redundancy for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Site
- Security considerations and configurations including multi-site management using zones.
- Create, administer, and manage App Layering OS, platform, application, elastic, and user layers.
- ntegrate 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.
Prerequisite Knowledge
Strong foundational knowledge of:
- Windows Server and Desktop operating systems.
- Active Directory, Policies, Profiles, Networking and Hypervisors.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced Config, Redundancy, and Scalability
- Module 2: Manage CVAD Multiple Locations
- Module 3: Backups and Disaster Recovery
- Module 4: Advanced Authentication Methods
- Module 5: App and Data Security
- Module 6: Secure VDAs
- Module 7: Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Module 18: Layer Priority and Maintaining an App Layering Environment
- Module 19: Intro to WEM and Architecture Components
- Module 20: WEM Deployment Install
- Module 21: WEM Consoles and Initial Setup
- Module 22: WEM System and Log-On Optimization
- Module 23: WEM Security and Lockdown Features
- Module 24: Planning - The WEM Agent
- Module 25: WEM Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting
- Module 26: Upgrading WEM and Migration to WEM Service
