Silvestri - Citrix XenDesktop 7 Cookbook

Gaspare A. Silvestri is an IT specialist with 10 years of experience in the Information Technology market. Currently, he works as the CTO for an ICT company based in Italy. Being a multicertified IT director, he considers his job as the first of all his passions, with a particular preference for the areas of virtualization and Unix. He is always curious and in search of new IT projects on which to perform research activities. Gaspare has been involved in the design, tuning, and consolidation of physical and virtual infrastructures for important system integration companies based in Italy.

Gaspare is also the author of Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook , by Packt Publishing .

Thanks to Viola and Manuelathe shining stars of my life.

Thanks to my parentsfor the road of life they have given to me.

Thanks to Tiziana and Sergiofor the help they gave me with my shining stars.

Thanks to Robertowho gave me the opportunity to start working on the Citrix platforms some years ago.

A special thanks to Steven Wrighta wonderful person who permitted me to use his fantastic software (WrightSMS2 in , Configuring the XenDesktop Advanced Logon ).

Thanks to the coffee and Miles Daviswho have been my main fellowships during working hours.

Special thanks to the entire Packt staff and the Technical Reviewersfor the exceptional work they have done with me and for all the work we have done together.

Jack Cobben is no stranger to the challenges that enterprises can experience when managing large deployments of Windows systems and Citrix implementations, with over thirteen years of systems management experience. In his free time, Jack writes for his own blog at www.jackcobben.nl and is active on the Citrix support forums. He loves to test new software and share the knowledge in any way he can. You can follow him on twitter via @jackcobben. While he works for Citrix, Citrix didn't help with, or support, this book in any way or form.

Ferdinand Feenstra , based in the Netherlands, is a Citrix Certified Architect and a senior specialist for Microsoft environments. He is working in the IT field since 1998, and he has experience in many complex environments with different customers in different functions.

His experience is categorized into building and designing Citrix environments, implementations and migrations projects, and consultancy projects. Since he began working with Citrix in 2004, a new world of solutions and the opportunity to work on any device combined with a great user experience came his way. This makes IT more dynamic and easier to adopt for users. You can find his blog at www.CitrixGuru.net or check his tweets on Twitter at @f_feenstra.

This is the fifth review for him. He has already reviewed Instant EdgeSight for XenApp by Vaqar Hasan , XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide by Daniele Tosatto , Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook by Gaspare A. Silvestri , and Implementing Citrix XenServer Quickstarter by Gohar Ahmed .

Ferdinand works for Imtech ICT Communication Solutions B.V., which is a Citrix Gold Solution Advisor. With 2,500 IT professionals, Imtech ICT is part of Royal Imtech NV (30,000 employees worldwide). Solutions that Imtech provides range from embedded software for high-tech industrial environments and business software applications to IT infrastructures. Imtech ICT Communication Solutions BV designs and implements large-scale infrastructures, such as virtual desktop environments, secure networks, servers, unified communications, storage, and backup solutions. Among Citrix, Imtech ICT provides (managed) solutions based on Cisco, HP, VMware, Avaya, Microsoft, and other major market leading vendors. For more information, visit www.imtech.com/nl/ICT.

Florian Zoller works as a senior IT consultant for a consulting company in Germany. He has several years of experience in designing and implementing Citrix infrastructures. Additionally, he is an expert in automated server- and client-deployment technologies.