AppSense: Professional Overview (3225)
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
Skills Gained
- Purpose and functionality of AppSense Management Center, AppSenseEnvironment Manager, AppSense Application Manager, and AppSense PerformanceManager
- Architecture and communication between the components that make up theAppSense Management Suite
- Perform an enterprise installation of the AppSense Management Suite
- Set up and configure the management server, personalization server, andcentral statistics server
- Purpose and functionality of the AppSense Management Center components
- Manage endpoints by creating, configuring, and managing deploymentgroups, deploying packages, configuring event notifications, and configuringalerts
- Role and use of triggers, conditions, and actions in creating an AppSenseEnvironment 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 anapplication'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 applicationsreceive the necessary system resources
- Configure a statistics strategy and view statistics
Who Can Benefit
- Systems administrators
- Service desk personnel
- IT professionals wishing to become AppSense administrators
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.
Syllabus
1. AppSense User Virtualization Platform
- Components of the AppSense Management Suite
- Purpose and functionality of the AppSense Management Center, AppSenseEnvironment Manager, AppSense Application Manager, and AppSense PerformanceManager
- Diagramming the architecture and communication between the componentsthat make up each of the applications
2. Core Installation
- Stand-alone vs. enterprise installations
- System requirements and prerequisites for installing the AppSenseManagement Suite
- Performing an enterprise installation of the AppSense Management Suite
- Setting up and configuring the management, personalization, and centralstatistic 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 beeninstalled 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 thetiming of them
- Create, configure, and deploy an AppSense Environment Manager policyconfiguration
5. AppSense Environment Manager: Personalization
- User personalization and how AppSense Environment Manager enables andmanages user personalization
- Enable, configure, and test user personalization
6. AppSense Environment Manager: Archive and Analysis
- Performing a personalization analysis and interpreting output from theanalysis report
- Actions and commands that can be run from within the personalizationanalyzer
- Edit registry settings and perform a manual archive and rollback of anapplication'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 UserRights 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
