Alexandria, Virginia MOC Course 20416 Windows Server Training -> Implementing Desktop Application Environments

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This five-day course provides students with the skills and knowledge to be able to design, deploy and manage a physical as well as a virtual Windows Server 2012 application management infrastructure. Students will also learn to design, deploy and manage Windows 8 Enterprise applications in a physical and virtual environment as well as in the cloud. Students should have experience with course 20415: Implementing a Desktop Infrastructure, and have their Windows 2012 Server certification (MCSA) or equivalent skills. This course also maps to and supports exam 70-416: Implementing Desktop Application Environments.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for IT Professionals who are interested in specializing in Windows 8 application deployments and managing the application environments for large organizations. People attending this training could be support technicians or currently in deployment roles and are considering taking the next step in their career or enhancing their skills in the areas of planning and deploying Windows 8 desktops.

A secondary audience for this course is IT professionals who are looking to take one or both exams: 70-415: Implementing an Enterprise Desktop and Device Infrastructure and 70-416: Implementing Desktop Application Environments as a stand-alone, or as part of the requirement for the MCSE: Desktop Infrastructurecertification.

Course Outline

Module 1: Designing an Application Distribution Strategy

This module discusses the high-level aspects of designing an application distribution strategy. The topics covered can help students identify the aspects in an environment that influence application distribution and identify the most common distribution methods used in the Windows environment.

Lessons

• Developing an Application Lifecycle Strategy
• Determining Business Requirements for Application Distribution
• Overview of Application Distribution Strategies

Module 2: Diagnosing and Remediating Application Compatibility

This module describes the process for addressing common application compatibility issues experienced during a new operating system deployment. The module also explains how to use Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to help inventory, analyze, and mitigate application compatibility issues.

Lessons

• Diagnosing Application Compatibility Issues
• Evaluating and Implementing Remediation Solutions
• Resolving Compatibility Issues by Using ACT

Module 3: Deploying Software by Using Group Policy and Windows Intune

This module discusses using Group Policy and Windows Intune to deploy software as part of a software deployment strategy. It also covers sideloading, which is the specialized software deployment method specific to Windows Store apps.

Lessons

• Deploying Software by Using Group Policy
• Sideloading Windows Store Apps
• Deploying Software by Using Windows Intune

Module 4: Deploying Applications by Using Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1

This module describes how to use System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 to manage the software deployment and management lifecycle, including deploying software, targeting a group of user or computers, validating the success of software deployment, and removing software from computers when that software is no longer required.

Lessons

• Understanding Software Deployment by Using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
• Deploying Software by Using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1

Module 5: Configuring Self-Service Application Deployment

This module describes planning, configuring and using self-service application deployment. It describes configuring self-service application deployment for Windows Intune clients and for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager clients, in addition to using Microsoft System Center 2012 - Service Manager and Microsoft System Center 2012 - Orchestrator to improve the self-service application deployment process.

Lessons

• Understanding Self-Service Application Deployment
• Configuring Self-Service with Windows Intune
• Self-Service Deployment by Using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
• Self-Service Deployment with Service Manager and Orchestrator

Module 6: Designing and Implementing Presentation Virtualization Infrastructure

This module introduces you to presentation virtualization concepts and to the components that are used for presentation virtualization in computers running Windows so that you can plan the deployment of apps using presentation virtualization in your environment.

Lessons

• Assessing Presentation Virtualization Requirements
• Planning Presentation Virtualization Infrastructure
• Deploying Presentation Virtualization Infrastructure
• Extending the Presentation Virtualization Infrastructure

Module 7: Preparing, Configuring, and Deploying Presentation Virtualization Applications

This module discusses presentation virtualization strategies and which strategy to use in a given situation. It also discusses how to deploy applications to Remote Desktop Session Host servers as traditional, RemoteApp, and Remote Desktop Web Access applications.

Lessons

• Determining Presentation Virtualization Application Strategies
• Planning and Deploying Remote Desktop, RemoteApp, and Remote Desktop Web Access

Module 8: Designing and Deploying an Application Virtualization Environment

This module discusses how to determine which application virtualization infrastructure model best suits an organization’s needs. Additionally, this module covers how to determine which Windows Server 2012 roles and features are needed to support the model you have selected,  and which Group Policy settings should be configured.

Lessons

• Overview of Application Virtualization Models
• Deploying Application Virtualization Infrastructure Components
• Configuring Application Virtualization Client Support

Module 9: Preparing, Sequencing, and Deploying Virtual Applications

This module describes sequencing applications by using the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer. It also describes how to stream sequenced applications and how to locally install sequenced applications.

Lessons

• Sequencing Applications with App-V 
• Deploying App-V Applications

Module 10: Planning and Implementing Application Updates and Security

This module discusses how to configure the appropriate infrastructure to streamline the deployment of software updates to applications. It also covers how to plan and configure application security.

Lessons

• Planning Application Updates
• Deploying Updates by Using WSUS
• Deploying Application Updates by Using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
• Implementing Application Security

Module 11: Planning and Implementing Application Upgrades

This module covers planning and implementing application upgrades and supersedence, including how to deploy multiple versions of an application, how to uninstall applications, how to retire applications, and how to manage user settings.  It also covers planning application concurrency and implementing it by using App-V, Client Hyper-V, RemoteApp, VDI, and Remote Desktop Services.

Lessons

• Overview of Application Upgrades
• Overview of Application Concurrency

Module 12: Monitoring Application Deployment, Use, and Performance

This module describes using application monitoring as an essential part of managing applications in an enterprise environment. It also covers planning software inventory and metering, and monitoring application resource use.

Lessons

• Planning Application Monitoring
• Planning Software Inventory and Metering
• Monitoring Application Resource Utilization

Labs

Lab: Designing an Application Distribution Strategy
Lab: Diagnosing and Remediating Application Compatibility
Lab: Centralizing Software Deployment by Using Group Policy and Windows Intune
Lab: Deploying Applications by Using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
Lab: Configuring Self-Service Application Deployment
Lab: Deploying and Implementing Presentation Virtualization Infrastructure
Lab: Configuring Applications for Presentation Virtualization
Lab: Planning and Deploying Application Virtualization Infrastructure
Lab: Preparing, Sequencing, and Deploying Virtual Applications
Lab: Preparing and Deploying Application Updates
Lab: Upgrading Applications
Lab: Monitoring Application Deployment, Utilization, and Performance

What You'll Learn

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Design an application distribution strategy that is appropriate for an organizational environment.
• Diagnose and remediate application compatibility problems for desktop and presentation virtualization-based deployments.
• Use Group Policy and Windows Intune to deploy applications to client devices.

• Deploy applications centrally using Configuration Manager.

• Configure self-service application deployment using Configuration Manager, Service Manager, and Windows 8 Application Store.

• Design and deploy Windows Server 2012 roles and features to support presentation virtualization.

• Prepare, deploy and manage applications for Remote Desktop, RemoteApp, and Remote Desktop Web Access.

• Design and deploy Windows Server 2012 roles and features to support application virtualization.

• Virtualize and deploy applications by using App-V and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.

• Plan and configure the appropriate infrastructure to streamline the deployment of software updates to applications, and plan and configure application security.

• Plan and implement application upgrades, supersedence, and application coexistence.

• Monitor the deployment, performance, and utilization of applications and determine whether current application hosting platforms are meeting business needs.

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