June, 2013 Application Delivery Excalibur - XenDesktop 7 Mick Glover Worldwide Support Readiness

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Previous XenApp & XenDesktop architecture Delivery Services Console XenApp FarmXenDesktop Site Desktop Studio Delivery Services Receiver DB IMA CBP Controller Server OS Workers Desktop OS Workers Controller Power & Capacity Mgmt Provisioning Services PVS WMI PVS Console PCM Console

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute XenDesktop 7 architecture Storefront Receiver Citrix Studio SQL DB Windows Desktop OS Delivery Controller Desktops & Apps Site Windows Server OS Citrix Director VDA Provisioning Services PVS Console

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Supported Application Types XenDesktop 7 Existing (Pre XenDesktop 7)  VM or Desktop Hosted Applications (VM Hosted Apps)  Desktop installed Applications (Delivered with VDI Desktop) New in XenDesktop 7  Server Hosted Applications (Published Applications)  Server installed Applications (Delivered with shared hosted Desktop)  LAA Applications (Local App Access)  App-V Hosted Applications 6 Application types in total…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Application Delivery XD7 Concepts VDA (Virtual Delivery Agent)  FlexCast v2.0 based Two Types  One for Windows Server OS’s  One for Windows Desktop OS’s Delivery Groups  Can contain Server or Desktop machines

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute FlexCast 2.0 Delivery Agent Install Auto-Run  XenDesktopInstall.exe  Detects the OS and offers to install the appropriate components Individual component MSI’s  MCS, PvD, ICA stack…  Installed based on OS type

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Difference between Delivery Agents FlexCast v2.0 agents Client OS Machines  Single user  Citrix ICA Service (PortICA.exe\picaSvc2.exe)  Allows users to connect to machines console session Server OS Machines  Multi-user  No ICA Service running on Server OS  Extends RDS (Remote Desktop Services) to support ICA\HDX

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Basic Steps to deliver applications Install Virtual Delivery Agent Create Machine Catalog Create Delivery Group & assign users Publish\Create Application Launch Applications through Receiver

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Step 1 Administrator selects application type… Apps installed on Desktop\Server machines Apps Hosted on Desktop\Server machines Apps installed on users local machines Apps hosted on App-V server

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Step 2 Administrator creates supporting Catalog in Citrix Studio and chooses the appropriate OS and machine type…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Windows Desktop OS Workflow 1

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Windows Desktop OS Workflow 2

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Windows Server OS Workflow 3

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Windows Server OS Workflow 4

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Step 3 Administrator creates Delivery Group in Citrix Studio and adds machines from Catalog and selects a delivery mode…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Step 4 Choosing a delivery mode will determine what configuration needs to be completed at creation time…  Desktops and Applications  Applications Only

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Step 5 Assign applications to Delivery Group Studio will return list of applications found on the master Image or App-V publishing server Applications can be added manually also

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Applications can also be published at a later stage through the Delivery Group node in Citrix Studio…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Creating Applications Citrix Studio

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Delivering Applications to Users Step by Step process Flow… Step 6 Users access applications through receiver or Desktop..

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Managing application sessions Search option in Citrix Studio  Log users off sessions  Disconnect sessions  Send messages to users

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