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CXD-202-1 Citrix XenDesktop 5 Administration

Duration:

5 Days

Overview:

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.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, students are able to:

• Determine the best Flexcast delivery model for each user group.
• Build a XenDesktop proof-of-concept environment.
• Configure a XenServer host for desktop delivery.
• Build and configure a production XenDesktop site.
• Manage virtual desktops as a single entity by creating a desktop catalog.
• Modify a desktop image without impacting user productivity.
• Restrict or allow certain XenDesktop features using policies.
• Monitor site activity and troubleshoot issues in Desktop Director.
• Install and configure Provisioning services.
• Copy a desktop image to a virtual disk that can be streamed to virtual and physical target devices.
• Identify the XenClient infrastructure.
• Install and configure Synchronizer for XenClient.

Audience:

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

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