CPV-200-1I Implementing Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 — A 2-Day Course

Course Synopsis

This CPV-200-1I Implementing Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 course (also known as CPV2001I, CPV-2001I, CPV-2001, CPV2001) provides learners with the skills needed 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.

Course Objectives

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

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

Suitable For

This course is intended for IT professionals, system architects and system engineers.

Course Prerequisities

There are no preparatory recommendations for this course

Certification

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.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

London — £955 (+VAT)

31 Mar–1 Apr 2010
11–12 May 2010
24–25 Jun 2010

Outline Course Contents

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
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
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 connections 2
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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