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Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x

You're reading from   Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x Deliver desktops and applications to your end users, anywhere, anytime, with XenDesktop 7.x.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689762
Length 422 pages
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Designing a XenDesktop Site FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing XenDesktop 3. Managing Machine Catalogs, Hosts, and Personal vDisks 4. Managing Delivery Groups 5. Managing Policies 6. Managing Printing 7. Virtualizing USB Support 8. Virtualizing Storage and Backup 9. High Definition Experience (HDX) 10. Application Delivery 11. Working with the XenDesktop SDK 12. Working with Citrix ReceiverTM and Plugins 13. Securing XenDesktop 14. Managing and Monitoring XenDesktop 15. VDI in the Cloud Creating a Domain Certificate Authority
XenDesktop Policy Settings Reference Creating Self-signed Certificates for NetScaler Gateway Using Public CA-signed SSL Wildcard Certificates on NetScaler Gateway Index

Step 8 – creating the delivery groups


Now that you have configured StoreFront and created a machine catalog, you can create the delivery groups.

Creating desktop delivery groups

In this task, we will assign users to a delivery group so that they can receive their desktop. The following steps are used to create the desktop delivery groups:

  1. Log in to the Delivery Controller, or xd1.xenpipe.com in our example, using a domain administrator account.

  2. Launch Studio and navigate to Delivery Groups in the left-hand side navigation pane. Select Create Delivery Group.

  3. On the Machines page, select the catalog that we created earlier for Windows 8 desktops. We enter five machines to be assigned, as shown in the following screenshot.

    Tip

    The add machines value is the number of machines that the delivery group consumes. This value should be less than or equal to the number of available machines. For example, we created 10 virtual desktops in Machine Creation Services, but we only assigned five to this delivery...

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