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Below you’ll find the chapters of my book: Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture, which I published through Amazon CreateSpace back in May 2016. In the coming months, I will be publishing one or multiple chapters per month/week, including a downloadable PDF version of each chapter. Go here for the accompanying blog post. To get started, and in case you do not know what the book is about here’s the back cover text describing its content:

Inside Citrix – The Flex Management Architecture, primarily focusses on the FMA, mainly from an architectural point of view. It will discuss, in detail all of its main components and services, their primary roles and responsibilities and how they all interact, also including some of the most common optional components, features and/or closely related technologies. From the basics to deep(er) dives where applicable, I will make sure to include something for everybody. This book is not meant as an installation and/or a how-to manual, instead, it will dive deeper into the FMA and related technologies, the true foundation of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.

Topics include but are not limited to: A deep dive into the FMA’s main services, its evolution, a detailed overview on the user authentication, application enumeration and launch process, Citrix printing, the ICA / HDX protocol, application delivery, MCS, PVS, troubleshooting, some history, some fun facts and figures and (much) more. I have concluded each chapter with multiple key takeaways (a few hundred in total) and also included over 100 so-called FMA facts throughout. Let me conclude by thanking you for purchasing and reading my book, I truly hope you found it of some use.

Inside Citrix Chapters, downloadable PDF files included

• Inside Citrix prologue – The one with copyrights and acknowledgements
• Inside Citrix chapter one – The one about the author
• Inside Citrix chapter two – The one with the why who and scope
• Inside Citrix chapter three – The one with all the relevance
• Inside Citrix chapter four – The one with the FMA and its evolution
• Inside Citrix chapter five  – The one with the FMA and its foundation
• Inside Citrix chapter six – The one with the Delivery Controller
• Inside Citrix chapter seven – The one with the Virtual Delivery Agent
• Inside Citrix chapter eight – The one with Storefront 
• Inside Citrix chapter nine – The one with the Central Site Database
• Inside Citrix chapter ten – The one with Citrix Receiver
• Inside Citrix chapter eleven – The one with Studio
• Inside Citrix chapter twelve – The one with Director
• Inside Citrix chapter thirteen – The one with all the licensing
• Inside Citrix chapter fourteen – The one with the Host Connection
• Inside Citrix chapter fifteen – The one with the NetScaler Gateway and ADC
• Inside Citrix chapter sixteen – The one with Provisioning Services
• Inside Citrix chapter seventeen – The one with Machine Creation Services
• Inside Citrix chapter eighteen – The one with all the FMA core services
• Inside Citrix chapter nineteen – The one with the ICA/HDX protocol 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty – The one about application delivery 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty one – The one with the user login process 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty two – The one where we deep dive into Citrix printing 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty three – The one with all the troubleshooting 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty four – The one with sizing and storage considerations 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty five – The one on Citrix Workspace Cloud 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty six – The one about the Citrix community 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty seven – The one with Appendix A – FMA facts 
• Inside Citrix chapter twenty eight – The one with Appendix B – Key Takeaways