Getting Started With Xendesktop 7.x

My tech's love the book, I would recommend buying it

I am very fascinated with Citrix and have read many articles regarding the virtual technology. I wanted to get my hands on practice with it since I was done studying the back bone of how it works. I wanted a book that showed me step by step that included photos here and there. This book does an excellent job teaching you, whether you've never done it before or have. Hence you need to understand the terminology of how servers and hosting works, which shouldn't be too hard with the amount of books that are out there.This implementation guy covers the necessities of running a Citrix based infrastructure that will get you up and running as an administrator. it is not pricey and does the job. I highly recommend this print.

Hi!I wish, i had this eBook 12 months earlier!Our project at a customer started up on May 2013 with vSphere 5.5, XenDesktop 7.x and Windows 8.1 and i had to look for every information, estimate the consumption and calculate the required hardware- and storage ressources without having information in detail.This eBook gives you a great overview about XenDesktop 7.x on XenServer.It shows you, how you have to size your environment, what you have to think about and where you should keep on an eye.You get a helping hand with this ebook to configure the XenDesktop 7.x environment and a lot of explaination, how to configure what (policies, printer, USB device, etc.).What i missed, is the Citrix Provisioning part. The whole book describes the MCS way of deploying virtual desktops. Till now, Citrix does not support provisioning service for Windows 8.x and it does not work (black screen). - Too bad!Never the less, it is too much content in this ebook to describe every chapter, so let me summarize it:A very good eBook of Citrix XenDesktop 7.x!But not for beginners, you need some experience with Citrix XenDesktop to understand everything.When will be published an eBook about XenDesktop 7.x AppEdition/XenApp 7.5 in that quality?I would buy it asap! =)Best regards from Germany!Stephan

The author’s knowledge of XenDesktop 7.x is excellently portrayed in a well organized and written guide. Using this guide any one from a seasoned Citrix Administrator to a novice first time setting up a farm Administrator can understand and apply the instructions with ease. The breakdown of each concept from Farm creation to securing your environment with netscalers allows us all to walk away feeling like our environment is ready to rock and roll. Only additional information I would have like to see is a more in depth troubleshooting section that goes through some of the tools besides Director. I would still recommend this book for all.

Great

Good book, well written and easy to follow.

Maybe be later great for setting up a lab but lacking in a bit detail.

Im allgemeinen nicht schlecht. Aber das Buch ist wie für Roboter geschrieben nach dem Motto: machen Sie das und danach das und dann lassen sie das. Es gibt keine Argumentation, keine Erklärung an vielen Stellen warum eine Option gewählt wird und warum nicht die andere und was wäre, wenn man die andere nimmt und warum würde man die andere auswählen. Die causale Erklärung, die zum Einlernen notwendig ist fehlt. Für Getting Started, Einrichtung von Labumgebung ist vielleicht ok, nicht aber für professionele Admins, die XenDesktop in Unternehmen implementieren.