Advanced Administration for Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 (CXA-300)

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This course provides learners with the skills necessary to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot network environments running XenApp for Windows Server 2008 software. Learners are introduced to the tools used to monitor the XenApp farm, record farm activity and generate reports. In addition, learners take away the skills needed to maintain data and server integrity and to scale, optimize and troubleshoot the XenApp farm.

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This course is intended for IT professionals, such as server, network, system and help desk administrators familiar with Microsoft � Windows Server™ 2003 and Windows Server 2008 environments. System engineers, analysts, consultants, architects and Citrix Solution Advisors are appropriate candidates for this course.

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The following are preparatory recommendations for this course:

Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services

Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Terminal Services

Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Reporting Services

Working knowledge of the architecture and administrative tasks associated with Citrix XenApp

CXA-201-1I Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 or CXA-202-1I Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 Skills Update

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

• Determine when and how to use monitoring tools to administer network environments running Citrix XenApp software
• Configure metrics, alarms and Health Monitoring and Recovery tests
• Plan and optimize the server farm
• Monitor and troubleshoot connectivity to the data store
• Monitor and troubleshoot the Citrix IMA Service and the ICA communication channel
• Troubleshoot session initialization, client settings and Application Streaming sessions
• Monitor and troubleshoot published and streamed applications
• Determine how Citrix and Active Directory policies are applied and troubleshoot unexpected policy results
• Monitor, optimize and troubleshoot printing and printing policies
• Monitor, optimize and troubleshoot Web Interface and Secure Gateway