CTX-306 Citrix Platform Enterprise Deployment

Length 3 days
Price $3971 inc GST

Course overview

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Why study this course

» This course usually runs consecutively with CTX-308: Citrix Platform Monitoring & Troubleshooting as a five-day Combo course

Designed for experienced IT professionals, this course expands the foundational administrative skills by introducing scalability, redundancy, and advanced configurations. You will learn to build and combine App Layers to optimise management of your app and desktop images. You will learn how to implement Workspace Environment Management to improve logon times, centralise user settings management, and optimise 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.

Product Versions Covered: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2507 LTSR, App Layering 2507, and WEM 2511

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What you’ll learn

How to implement advanced administration concepts such as backups, disaster recovery, scalability, and redundancy for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Site.
Create, administer, and manage App Layering OS, platform, application, elastic, and user layers.
Integrate Citrix App Layering into a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop deployment.
Install and initialise 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.

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Citrix provides server, application and desktop virtualisation, networking, software-as-a-service, and cloud computing technologies. Lumify Work is the most experienced provider of Citrix training in Australasia with 20 years as an Authorized Training Provider (ATP) / Authorized Learning Center.

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Who is the course for?

Designed for experienced IT professionals such as administrators and engineers.

Course subjects

Module 1: Intro to CVAD Advanced Configuration, Redundancy, and Scalability

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Redundancy and Scalability
StoreFront and NetScaler Gateway
Site Infrastructure Redundancy and Scalability
Machines Running the Virtual Delivery Agent

Module 2: Manage CVAD Multiple Locations

Zones
VDA Registration in a Multi-Zone Environment
Zone Preference
Optimal Gateway Routing and Zones
StoreFront Resource Aggregation
Managing StoreFront Store Subscriptions in a Multi-Location Environment

Module 3: Backups and Disaster Recovery

Backups
Disaster Recovery Considerations
Disaster Recovery Process

Module 4: Intro to WEM Architecture Components

WEM Features and Benefits
WEM On-Premises Components and Deployments
WEM Service Components and Deployments
WEM Component Communication Workflows
WEM Service Component Communication Workflows

Module 5: WEM Deployment and Initial Installation

On-premises WEM: Leading Practice Installation Prerequisites and Steps
Creating the WEM Database
Running the WEM Infrastructure Service Configuration Utility
WEM On-Premises vs WEM Service
WEM Service: Leading Practice Installation Prerequisites and Steps
ADMX Template Configuration
WEM Agent Installation
WEM Consoles
WEM Initial Setup

Module 6: WEM System and Log On Optimisation

WEM System Optimisation Overview
WEM CPU Management
WEM Memory Management
Additional System Optimisation Features
WEM Log On Optimisation Overview
WEM Assigned Actions
WEM Environmental Settings
Citrix Profile Management in WEM

Module 7: WEM Security and Lockdown Features

WEM Security Management Features
Privilege Elevation and Process Hierarchy Control
WEM Transformer

Module 8: The WEM Agent

WEM Settings Processing and WEM Agent Caches
WEM Agent Integration with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS

Module 9: WEM Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting

WEM Monitoring and Reporting
WEM On-Premises Troubleshooting
WEM Service Troubleshooting
WEM Agent Troubleshooting

Module 10: Upgrading WEM and Migration to WEM Service

Upgrading Workspace Environment Management
WEM On-Premises Migration to WEM Service

Module 11: Intro to App Layering and Architecture Overview

Citrix App Layering Introduction
Citrix App Layering Architecture

Module 12: OS, Platform, and App Layers

The OS Layer
The Platform Layer
The App Layers

Module 13: Elastic App and User Layers

Elastic App Layers
User Layers

Module 14: Layer Priority and Maintaining an App Layering Environment

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

Prerequisites

This course requires strong foundational knowledge of:

Windows Server and Desktop operating systems
Active Directory, Policies, Profiles, Networking and Hypervisors

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