Customer Reviews

Citrix XenApp Platinum Edition for Windows: The Official Guide

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

If you are looking for advanced techniques, this is not the book.

If you are looking for what management wants to hear, this is the book.

If you are a newb, this is the book.

Hi,

I received this book with great expectation since it i stated as "The Official Guide". However, this is "The Official Guide" if you are planning to sell Citrix solution to your management or your client. It shares a little of technical inside info what I was expecting. So I recommend this book for sales people (internal or external), not to system administration guys who would expect some best practices while deploying these type of solutions ...

Best,

Damir

If you start your Monday mornings with a $6 coffee and then sit back to catch up on all the Gartner white papers - this is the book for you.

If you actually run and support Xen App (5 or 6 now - not 4.5) this book does not have much to offer.

It is a good guide to project planning but that's where it stops. I think i was like 180 pages in before I had a picture with an actual product screen shot.

I was really hoping for much more hands on -

Combined with Citrix XenApp Platinum Edition Advanced Concepts: The Official Guide this book makes a good generic overview of how to deploy a new Citrix XenApp installation. Others have stated that it could delve into more technical detail, and that is true. It covers the corporate politics of an doing one of these projects, which is good because that's something that we all to often forget about in IT (and dooms projects to failure).

It could use an update for XenApp 6, but is generic enough to still mostly apply.

This product came to me exactly as advertised and showed up in short order. I'd call it a very good transaction.