Citrix XenApp Reference Design
A few years back, a rock star by the name of Rick Dehlinger created a reference design document that serves as a blueprint to document/implement Citrix farms. Starting in 2005, Roddy Rodstein maintained the document. Here is a brief explanation from the document itself:
“The XenApp Platinum Reference Design is a best-practice based comprehensive standard. The XenApp Platinum Reference Design was designed with simplicity, reproducibility, usability, scalability, supportability, security, privacy and accessibility in mind. The XenApp Platinum Reference Design represents a complete XenApp Platinum standard that can be leveraged as a vanilla solution or modified to more accurately reflect organizational-specific needs.”
I have personally used this reference document in the past to implement farms, and I have to tell you - if you use this framework to produce deliverable documentation, you will not regret it. The reference document helps you step through the design/configuration of all major components of a XenApp farm giving justifications for each design decision and setting.
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