M20416: Implementing Desktop Application Environments

This five-day course provides students with the skills and knowledge to be able to design, deploy and manage a physical as well as a virtual Windows Server 2012 application management infrastructure. Students will also learn to design, deploy and manage Windows 8 Enterprise applications in a physical and virtual environment as well as in the cloud. Students should have experience with course 20415: Implementing a Desktop Infrastructure, and have their Windows 2012 Server certification (MCSA) or equivalent skills. This course also maps  to and supports exam 70-416: Implementing Desktop Application Environments.

  Course objectives After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Design an application distribution strategy that is appropriate for an organizational environment.
• Diagnose and remediate application compatibility problems for desktop and presentation virtualization-based deployments.
• Use Group Policy and Windows Intune to deploy applications to client devices.
• Deploy applications centrally using Configuration Manager.
• Configure self-service application deployment using Configuration Manager, Service Manager, and Windows 8 Application Store.
• Design and deploy Windows Server 2012 roles and features to support presentation virtualization.
• Prepare, deploy and manage applications for Remote Desktop, RemoteApp, and Remote Desktop Web Access.
• Design and deploy Windows Server 2012 roles and features to support application virtualization.
• Virtualize and deploy applications by using App-V and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
• Plan and configure the appropriate infrastructure to streamline the deployment of software updates to applications, and plan and configure application security.
• Plan and implement application upgrades, supersedence, and application coexistence.
• Monitor the deployment, performance, and utilization of applications and determine whether current application hosting platforms are meeting business needs.