About this Course
Duration: 2 days
Implementing Provisioning Server 5.0 prepares learners to install, configure and administer Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 farms. Topics covered in this course include designing a farm; creating, assigning and administering vDisks; managing target devices and other farm components; and configuring high availability.
Audience
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.
Preparatory Recommendations
There are no preparatory recommendations for this course.
Key Skills
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
Instructional Method
This instructor-led training course provides interactive presentations, discussion and practical application through hands-on labs and group activities.
Course Length
2 days
Certification Preparation
This course prepares learners to take the 1Y0-A06 Implementing Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 exam, a requirement for the Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) for Citrix Provisioning Server 5 certification.
Topic Outline
The following list outlines the topics covered in CPV-200-1I.
• 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 to boot target devices
o Explaining how a target device boots over the network to a Provisioning Server vDisk
• Planning an Installation
Identifying the roles of DHCP and Proxy DHCP
Recognizing when to use 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 to a farm and configuring site properties
Adding servers to a site
Creating a store and configuring store properties
o 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 to a target device
Mounting, formatting and unmounting a vDisk
• Configuring a Master Target Device
Adding a Master Target Device to the Console
Assigning a vDisk to a target device
Identifying system requirements for a target device
Building an image
• Administering Target Devices
Adding target devices
Adding target devices to a device collection using a template
Configuring auto-add
Importing a target device
Streaming vDisks to target devices
Organizing target devices into views
Configuring and copy target device properties
Configuring Port Blocker
Integrating Provisioning Server with Active Directory
• Administering vDisks
Adding an existing vDisk to the Console
Unassigning a vDisk
Deleting a vDisk
Releasing a vDisk lock
Copying vDisk properties
Updating a vDisk
• Administering Servers
Viewing server connection
Administering server connections
Rebalancing server connections
Configuring basic and advanced server properties
Copying server properties to another server
• Configuring High Availability
Explaining the difference between distributed HA and centralized HA configurations
Adding additional servers to the 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 to a 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
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