Here, Citrix, we know that many of you have both Citrix XenDesktop and System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) . We know that you pack all your applications in MSI and App-V and ConfigMgr use to deploy your apps to your traditional desktops.
The question we often hear "how do I use my existing ConfigMgr infrastructure, packaged applications and processes to easily deploy applications in a Citrix environment?"
The XenDesktop connector explicitly designed for that purpose.
The connector allows you to use ConfigMgr to deploy applications in a XenDesktop server OS battery from ConfigMgr, and it ensures that if you are using either PVS or MCS for provisioning, the clones not get caught in the installation / reboot hell and the Master VM for your PVS or MCS catalog gets properly updated - making it easy for you to deploy an image refreshed at any time.
once your application is deployed ConfigMgr can then be used to publish the application in Citrix StoreFront where it can be selected for use by users on any device that has installed Receiver (iPad., Android, Mac, PC, Windows Phone, etc.)
Finally for managed computers (Domain joined PC with installed ConfigMgr agent), you can specify the version of an application, a user must obtain - app- V, MSI, OR XenDesktop published application. For example, using the policy ConfigMgr you can determine a user access through Citrix Receiver Visio if the machine they use are not then on the corporate network that they would have a local copy deployed App-V for them if they were on the corporate network.
In summary, the connector lets you use the Configuration Manager as a deployment mechanism of the central application that allows you to:
- Deploy MSI books Visa applications -V XenDesktop OS Server farms in the same way that you deploy on traditional desktops - an administrator can deploy an application on the desktop (physical or virtual) in your organization
- Publish applications StoreFront / receiver from ConfigMgr
- selectively deploy applications. as App-V, MSI OR XenDesktop Published Application Managed PC
what can you test with this version
In this first Tech Preview you can test the following key scenarios ?:
- Use one site System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager to manage a site XenDesktop
- Use one site System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager to manage a site XenDesktop
- deploy MSI or App-V applications XenDesktop bodies OS 7.1 Server (workers)
- deploy applications PVS managed OS Server catalogs
- Enable SCCM to deploy XenApp deployment type for managed clients
limitations
As this version is a Tech Preview please note the following limitations:
- We do not support this connector in an environment production and strongly recommends that be used in laboratory or PoC environments.
- There will be no upgrade this Tech Preview to the final version. We may ask you to completely uninstall the Tech Preview, its components and the data in System Center before installing the final version. We strongly recommend you not to install the connector in a production environment.
- We support the connector when used against one site System Center and unique online XenDesktop.
- We hold that XenDesktop server OS (RDSH) scenarios and does not support XenDesktop scenarios OS client (VDI / RDVH) scenarios
- We do not support the software deployment orchestrated the catalogs MCS servers based in this release.
- There is no support for high availability (HA) configurations in this release.
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