Presentation Server 4.5: Administration

Course Overview

CTX-1259AI Citrix Presentation Server 4.5: Administration provides the foundation necessary to effectively deploy and administer Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and its components, including Load Manager, Installation Manager, Web Interface, Application Streaming and Secure Gateway.

Learners will receive hands-on training for installing Citrix Presentation Server and Presentation Server Clients and for using the various administrative consoles to configure published resources, policies, individual server and server farm settings, load evaluators, isolation environments, printers, streaming applications and much more.

Audience

This course is intended for IT professionals, such as server, network, systems and help desk administrators familiar with Microsoft(R) Windows(R) environments. Systems engineers, analysts, consultants, and architects are also appropriate candidates for this course.

Skills Gained

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

• Install Presentation Server 4.5 in a Windows Server 2003 environment
• Install and configure Presentation Server Clients
• Publish applications, resources and content
• Configure and manage policies for Presentation Server
• Configure ICA connection and session settings
• Configure and manage server and server farm settings
• Configure load evaluators and monitor load using Load Manager
• Deploy applications using Installation Manager
• Deploy applications into an isolation environment
• Configure and manage network and session printing
• Install and configure Web Interface

Configure streaming profiles, install the Streaming Client and configure Presentation Server to stream applications

Secure access to published resources through ICA encryption, Citrix SSL Relay and Secure Gateway

Prerequisites

It is recommended that learners have experience administering Microsoft Windows ServerT 2003 environments. In addition, Citrix recommends that learners complete the following eLearning courses:

• CTX-1455CW Citrix Common Management Platform 4.5: Administration
• CTX-1255AW Citrix Presentation Server 4.0: Architectural

Examinations

Citrix instructor-led training course CTX-1259AI prepares candidates for exam 1Y0-259 Citrix Presentation Server 4.5: Administration. Exam 1Y0-259 is the core exam required for certification as a Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) for Citrix Presentation Server 4.

Course Outline

Provided is the topic outline for CTX-1259AI.

• Installing Citrix Presentation Server
• Citrix Presentation Server Overview
• Identifying Components of Presentation Server
• Introducing New Features and Feature Enhancements
• Identifying Management Consoles in Presentation Server
• Installation of Presentation Server
• Making Installation Decisions
• Installing and Configuring Citrix Presentation Server Clients
• Citrix Presentation Server Client for Windows
• Identifying New Features in the Client for Windows
• Using the Client for Web
• Using the Program Neighborhood Agent
• Using the Program Neighborhood
• Client Connection Security
• Configuring Remote Configuration
• Installation of the Client for Windows
• Creating Custom Packages Using the Client Package
• Installing the Clients Manually
• Deploying Clients Using Active Directory
• Publishing Resources
• Publishing Resources
• Organizing Published Resources for Users
• Advanced Settings for Published Resource
• Configuring Advanced Access Control Properties
• Configuring Server-to-Client Content Redirection
• Implementing Resource Limits and Client Options
• Configuring Resource Appearance
• Published Resource Management
• Viewing Published Resource Usage
• Modifying Published Resource Properties
• Disabling or Hiding a Published Resource

Configuring Policies in Presentation Server

• Policies in Presentation Server
• Identifying Policy Rules
• Creating Policies in Presentation Server
• Applying Policies Using Filter
• Prioritizing Policies
• Using the Policy Search Engine

Configuring Sessions in Presentation Server

• Session Connection Settings
• Configuring Virtual IP Addresses
• Configuring Broadcast Setting
• Configuring the Citrix XML Service
• Configuring Time Zone Settings
• Configuring Novell Directory Services
• Session Reconnection Configuration
• Configuring Keep-Alive Setting
• Configuring Session Reliability
• Configuring Auto Client Reconnect
• Session Performance Configuration
• Configuring Display Settings
• Configuring SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration
• Configuring SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration
• Configuring SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration
• Configuring SpeedScreen Latency Reduction
• Configuring SpeedScreen Image Acceleration
• Configuring Presentation Server
• Citrix Administrator Accounts and Permissions
• Adding Administrator Accounts
• Configuring Administrator Permissions
• Configuring Folder Permissions
• Configuration Logging
• Creating the Configuration Logging Database
• Configuring Configuration Logging
• Data Collectors and License Servers
• Configuring Data Collectors
• Specifying the License Server
• Performance Settings
• Implementing Virtual Memory Management
• Administration Settings
• Configuring Remote Console Connections
• Configuring Shadow Settings
• Configuring Load Management
• Load Calculation
• Load Evaluator Configuration
• Creating Custom Load Evaluators
• Assigning Load Evaluators to Servers and Applications
• Load Monitoring