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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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Published in Apr 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689762
Length 422 pages
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Craig has more than thirty years' experience in the computer industry and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, and a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He has held many positions in the computer industry including software programmer; support engineer; field and corporate system engineer; technical marketing manager; product marketing manager; and product manager. He has worked for companies such as Celerity Computing; Emulex; Pinnacle Micro; Sync Research; Cisco Systems; Citrix Systems; Extreme Networks; Akamai Technologies; and smaller startup ventures. Craig currently works for Akamai as a Solutions Engineer and System Architect in the Rockies region of the USA. He has authored patent applications and patent designs and received an innovation award while at Extreme Networks. Craig is passionate about Technical Marketing and has written many deployment guides, books, and video tutorials. Throughout his career, Craig has developed an in-depth, hands-on knowledge of virtualization, especially with regard to hypervisors such as Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, XenServer, Linux KVM, and others. Craig has written books on Technical Marketing, Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x, and XenDesktop High Performance; he has also authored a XenApp 6.5 video series. https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigellrod
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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

Aero redirection

HDX delivers a Windows Aero or Windows 8 experience to any user, regardless of the client, by rendering the graphics content on the server. Aero redirection leverages the graphics processing unit (GPU) or integrated graphics processor on Windows client devices to provide users with a fluid Windows 7 Aero or Windows 8 desktop experience.

The Windows Aero options that become available in a virtual desktop are as follows:

  • The taskbar preview when a user hovers over an image in the taskbar

  • Windows Peek when a user hovers over the preview image in the taskbar

  • Flip when a user presses Alt + Tab

  • Flip 3D when a user presses the Windows key + Alt

In XenDesktop 7.x, Citrix changed the name of the feature from Aero redirection to desktop composition redirection.

Configuring Aero redirection or desktop composition redirection

The end user has to enable the Aero theme on the virtual desktop, and then the server-side graphics are automatically available when the virtual desktop is configured...

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Craig has more than thirty years' experience in the computer industry and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, and a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He has held many positions in the computer industry including software programmer; support engineer; field and corporate system engineer; technical marketing manager; product marketing manager; and product manager. He has worked for companies such as Celerity Computing; Emulex; Pinnacle Micro; Sync Research; Cisco Systems; Citrix Systems; Extreme Networks; Akamai Technologies; and smaller startup ventures. Craig currently works for Akamai as a Solutions Engineer and System Architect in the Rockies region of the USA. He has authored patent applications and patent designs and received an innovation award while at Extreme Networks. Craig is passionate about Technical Marketing and has written many deployment guides, books, and video tutorials. Throughout his career, Craig has developed an in-depth, hands-on knowledge of virtualization, especially with regard to hypervisors such as Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, XenServer, Linux KVM, and others. Craig has written books on Technical Marketing, Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x, and XenDesktop High Performance; he has also authored a XenApp 6.5 video series. https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigellrod
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