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Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0. Learning to install, configure, and manage Citrix Provisioning Services is made so much faster and simpler with this practical guide. Making no assumptions of prior knowledge, it takes you step by step through the product features

Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0. Learning to install, configure, and manage Citrix Provisioning Services is made so much faster and simpler with this practical guide. Making no assumptions of prior knowledge, it takes you step by step through the product features

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

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  • Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
    • Table of Contents
    • Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
    • Credits
    • Notice
    • About the Author
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    • Preface
      • What this book covers
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    • 1. Introduction to Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
      • The background of Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
      • High-level logical flow of Citrix Provisioning Services
      • Architecture of Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
        • Provisioning Service License server
        • Provisioning Service Database server
        • Provisioning Service Admin Console
        • Shared storage service
        • Active Directory Server
        • Network services
        • Citrix Provisioning Server
      • Terminology
        • Citrix Provisioning Service farms
        • Citrix Provisioning Service stores
        • Citrix Provisioning Service sites
        • Citrix Provisioning Service vDisk
        • Citrix Provisioning Service vDisk modes
        • Citrix Provisioning Service vDisk pools
        • Citrix Provisioning Service vDisk Update Management
        • Citrix Provisioning Service write cache destination
      • System requirements
      • Summary
    • 2. Installing and Configuring Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
      • Installing Citrix Provisioning Server using GUI
      • Installing Citrix Provisioning Services using the command-line interface
      • Installing Citrix Provisioning Services Console 7.0 using GUI
      • Configuring Citrix Provisioning Server 7.0
      • Configuring Provisioning Services using the command-line interface
      • Summary
    • 3. Managing Citrix Provisioning Disk
      • Organizing a principal target device
        • Checking the readiness of the master target devices hard disk
        • The principal target device's BIOS configuration
        • Server network adapter BIOS configuration
        • Deploying the master target device application and operating system updates
      • Allocating a vDisk to the target device
        • Properties of the principal target device
      • Dealing with the bootstrap files and boot devices
      • Summary
    • 4. Operating Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
      • Managing and operating a farm
      • Operating sites
      • Managing and operating stores
      • Managing and operating target devices
        • Operation over target devices
          • Creating a new target device object in the Provisioning Service database
          • Setting the target device as the template for this collection
          • Copying and pasting target device properties
          • Booting target devices
          • Checking the target device's status via Console
          • Sending messages to target devices
          • Enabling/disabling a target device
      • Managing and operating the device collections
        • Device management operations
        • Creating a device collection
        • Importing a device collection
        • Deleting a device collection
        • Booting target devices within a collection
      • Managing views
      • Managing and operating the provisioning servers
        • Operation tasks in the Provisioning Service task
          • Copying and pasting server properties
          • Deleting a server
          • Starting, stopping, or restarting Provisioning Services on a server
          • Showing the server connections
          • Load balancing the target devices on a server
          • Checking for vDisk access updates
          • Manually configuring Provisioning Servers
      • Operating vDisks
        • Creating vDisks
        • Creating vDisk images
      • Summary
    • 5. Upgrading Citrix Provisioning Farm and vDisk
      • Upgrading the existing Provisioning Services farm
        • The Hyper-V method
          • Installing Hyper-V Integration Services (optional)
        • The Reverse Imaging method
      • Updating vDisks
        • Manual vDisk creation
        • Automatic vDisk creation
        • Managing update tasks
        • Merging of the vDisk from the existing disk
          • Promoting the update version
      • Troubleshooting reference articles
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0. Learning to install, configure, and manage Citrix Provisioning Services is made so much faster and simpler with this practical guide. Making no assumptions of prior knowledge, it takes you step by step through the product features
  • Author: Puthiyavan Udayakumar
  • Original title: Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0. Learning to install, configure, and manage Citrix Provisioning Services is made so much faster and simpler with this practical guide. Making no assumptions of prior knowledge, it takes you step by step through the product features.
  • ISBN: 9781782176718, 9781782176718
  • Date of issue: 2014-01-24
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bah
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing