Implementing Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0

This course is intended for IT professionals, such as server, network and system administrators. System engineers, analysts, consultants, architects and Citrix Solution Advisors are appropriate candidates for this course.

Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to perform the following:

• Identify the components, infrastructure, services and communications of Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0
• Identify system requirements and install Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0
• Configure a Provisioning Server farm
• Configure Provisioning Server role-based administration using Active Directory user groups
• Create a vDisk store
• Identify vDisk image modes and write cache types
• Create a vDisk
• Configure a Master Target Device and create a vDisk image
• Assign vDisks to target devices and enable Active Directory machine account password management
• Block ports for a target device, organize target devices into views and change the properties of target devices
• Administer vDisk connections; unassign, delete and backup vDisks; release vDisk locks; change vDisk properties and update a vDisk
• Administer server connections, change basic server properties and optimize performance by changing advanced server properties
• Configure two methods of high availability
• Install and enable printers on a vDisk and enable the Printer Management feature

Introducing Citrix Provisioning Server
Explaining the purpose of the Provisioning Server components
Identifying the Provisioning Server infrastructure
Identifying the Provisioning Server and network services required tboot target devices
Explaining how a target device boots over the network ta Provisioning Server vDisk

Planning an Installation
Identifying the roles of DHCP and Proxy DHCP
Recognizing when tuse a Proxy DHCP service
Designing a Provisioning Server farm
Identifying Active Directory group requirements and Console permissions for Provisioning Server role-based administration
Identifying Provisioning Server system requirements

Installation and Configuration
Installing Provisioning Server
Making appropriate installation decisions
Configuring Provisioning Server
Making appropriate configuration decisions
Configuring role-based administration
Adding sites ta farm and configuring site properties
Adding servers ta site
Creating a store and configuring store properties
Creating device collections and configuring device collection properties

Creating vDisks
Identifying vDisk image modes
Identifying write cache types
Creating a vDisk file
Assigning a vDisk ta target device
Mounting, formatting and unmounting a vDisk

Configuring a Master Target Device
Adding a Master Target Device tthe Console
Assigning a vDisk ta target device
Identifying system requirements for a target device
Building an image

Administering Target Devices
Adding target devices
Adding target devices ta device collection using a template
Configuring auto-add
Importing a target device
Streaming vDisks ttarget devices
Organizing target devices intviews
Configuring and copy target device properties
Configuring Port Blocker
Integrating Provisioning Server with Active Directory

Administering vDisks
Adding an existing vDisk tthe Console
Unassigning a vDisk
Deleting a vDisk
Releasing a vDisk lock
Copying vDisk properties
Updating a vDisk

Administering Servers
Viewing server connections 2
Administering server connections
Rebalancing server connections
Configuring basic and advanced server properties
Copying server properties at another server

Configuring High Availability
Explaining the difference between distributed HA and centralized HA configurations
Adding additional servers tthe bootstrap file
Enabling the HA option on a vDisk
Enabling load balancing on a vDisk
Configuring store path overrides for a distributed HA configuration
Configuring access ta Windows shared storage location for a centralized HA configuration
Configuring NTFS security permissions for a Windows shared storage location for a centralized HA configuration
Testing HA failover

Managing Printers
Installing printers on a vDisk
Enabling the Printer Management feature
Enabling printers on a vDisk