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AppSense: Professional Overview On-Site Training

AppSense: Professional Overview

Course Description/Agenda

In this course, you will gain the necessary foundation to implement user virtualization solutions using the AppSense Management Suite. Through a combination of formal lecture and hands-on exercises, you will learn how to install, configure, and administer the four components of the AppSense Management Suite. This course also helps you prepare for the AppSense Certified Professional exam (APP-100).

Certification:

AppSense Certified Professional

What You'll Learn

• Purpose and functionality of AppSense Management Center, AppSense Environment Manager, AppSense Application Manager, and AppSense Performance Manager
• Architecture and communication between the components that make up the AppSense Management Suite
• Perform an enterprise installation of the AppSense Management Suite
• Set up and configure the management server, personalization server, and central statistics server
• Purpose and functionality of the AppSense Management Center components
• Manage endpoints by creating, configuring, and managing deployment groups, deploying packages, configuring event notifications, and configuring alerts
• Role and use of triggers, conditions, and actions in creating an AppSense Environment Manager policy configuration
• Policy vs. personalization
• Create, configure, and deploy an environment policy configuration
• How AppSense Environment Manager enables and manages user personalization
• Enable, configure, and test user personalization
• Perform personalization analysis and a manual archive and rollback of an application's personalization settings
• Configure application access control rules
• Deploy and test application access control configurations
• Four methods of managing user rights
• Configure and test self-elevation
• Configure and test application network access control
• Utilize AppSense Performance Manager to ensure critical applications receive the necessary system resources
• Configure a statistics strategy and view statistics

Who Should Attend

• Systems administrators
• Service desk personnel
• IT professionals wishing to become AppSense administrators

Course Prerequisites

• Experience performing administrative tasks associated with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP, including managing user accounts, profiles, and security groups
• Familiarity with Active Directory, including Group Policy objects, sites, and group/user accounts
• Familiarity with the fundamentals of Microsoft SQL Server administration
• A demonstrated understanding of Windows troubleshooting techniques and tools such as Task Manager, Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, etc.

Course Outline

1. AppSense User Virtualization Platform

• Components of the AppSense Management Suite
• Purpose and functionality of the AppSense Management Center, AppSense Environment Manager, AppSense Application Manager, and AppSense Performance Manager
• Diagramming the architecture and communication between the components that make up each of the applications

2. Core Installation

• Stand-alone vs. enterprise installations
• System requirements and prerequisites for installing the AppSense Management Suite
• Performing an enterprise installation of the AppSense Management Suite
• Setting up and configuring the management, personalization, and central statistic servers

3. AppSense Management Center

• Purpose and functionality of the AppSense Management Center components
• Navigating the management console
• Creating and configuring a deployment group
  • Installing the client communications agent on managed computers
  • Installing packages and validating the correct package version has been installed on the endpoints
• Set up security, configure an alert rule, and verify licensing

4. AppSense Environment Manager: Policy

• Policy vs. personalization
• Navigating the AppSense Environment Manager console
• Role of triggers, conditions, and actions
• Built-in conditions and actions and how nodes are used to structure the timing of them
• Create, configure, and deploy an AppSense Environment Manager policy configuration

5. AppSense Environment Manager: Personalization

• User personalization and how AppSense Environment Manager enables and manages user personalization
• Enable, configure, and test user personalization

6. AppSense Environment Manager: Archive and Analysis

• Performing a personalization analysis and interpreting output from the analysis report
• Actions and commands that can be run from within the personalization analyzer
• Edit registry settings and perform a manual archive and rollback of an application's personal settings

7. AppSense Application Manager: Application Access Control

• Different security methods
• Navigate the AppSense Application Manager console
• Test the "out of the box" configuration
• Create, deploy, and test application access control configurations

8. AppSense Application Manager: Application Network Access Control and User Rights Management

• Benefits of user rights management
• Four methods of managing user rights
• Configure and test self-elevation
• Configure and test application network access control
• Run the rules analyzer and interpret its output

9. AppSense Performance Manager

• Purpose and functionality of AppSense Performance Manager components
• Ensure quality of service for critical business applications
  • Managing CPU resources
  • Managing memory resources
  • Managing disk resources
  • Managing licensing issues
  • Auditing system resource issues

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