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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD): Explore Advanced Management

Explore Session Recording, SmartAccess and SmartControl, smart cards and the Federated Authentication Service, backups and disaster recovery, and multi-zone and multi-site Citrix CVAD, formerly XenDesktop, architectures in this course.

Greg Shields - Pluralsight course - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD): Explore Advanced Management
Greg Shields
What you'll learn

In this eighth course out of nine, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD): Explore Advanced Management, you'll begin by implementing Session Recording to keep an eye on user activities in their sessions. Then, you'll explore SmartAccess and SmartControl along with smart cards and the Federated Authentication Service for advanced authentication and configuration control. Next, you'll discover at an architectural level the requirements for CVAD environment backups and preparations for disaster recovery. Finally, you'll expand your site into multiple geographic regions by exploring multi-zone and multi-site architectures. By the end of this course, you'll have more of the skills needed for building a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment.

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Greg Shields - Pluralsight course - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD): Explore Advanced Management
Greg Shields

Greg Shields is an Author Evangelist at Pluralsight.

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