After downloading the XenDesktop 7.6 installation media from your personal Citrix account, run the CTX_Licensing.msi installer, located under the following installation media path: x64\Licensing. Accept the Citrix License Agreement option and click on the Next button.

Select a destination folder's path for the program as default—we selected: C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\—then click on the Install button. Click on the Finish button when license server is successfully installed.

On the first configuration screen, you must assign port numbers for the License Server Port, Vendor Daemon Port, Management Console Web Port, and Web Services for Licensing port fields, as shown in the following screenshot, then click on the OK button:

You can decide to leave default ports for these three options or change them. In any case, the ports you will decide to use must be opened on Windows Server's personal firewall.

To generate the license file for importing to our license server, run a web browser installed on your client machine, connect to www.citrix.com/MyCitrix, and log in using your credentials.

Go to Activate and Allocate Licenses and click on Allocate Licenses.

Insert the exact hostname of your license server and select the number of licenses you want to allocate. Generate the license file by clicking on the Allocate button.

Now, you will be able to save the file. When prompted for the location, select the path on which the license manager will read the file with the .lic extension, as C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Licensing\MyFiles.

Then to configure the license server, search for the Citrix License Administration Console link (using the Windows + C key combination or by clicking on the Search icon), and then click on it.

You'll see the summary dashboard; click on the Administration button and insert the administrative credentials for your machine (domain or local admin account):

After a quick look in the Summary tab, click on the first button on the left-hand side menu—the User Configuration.

Add a new user account to differentiate from standard administrative machine credentials; we can decide to create this account as Locally Managed Admin, Domain Administrator, or Domain Administrator Group. After these operations, click on Save.

Now, it is time to configure alerting. Depending on our needs, we can set up critical and important alerts. It is preferable to leave them as default settings, and click on Save to archive the options.

In the Server Configuration menu, configure the port for the web server (default is 8082) and session timeout period (default is 30 minutes, but if possible you should reduce this value, so you can avoid inactive sessions locking unused resources). For security reasons, it is a good practice enabling SSL (port 443) and eventually using a personal certificate for strong authentication (as shown in next screenshot).

The available port range is from 27000 to 27009, on which the License Server is configured; the default port is 27000.

At the end comes the most important part, Vendor Daemon Configuration. After that, this license file has been generated. Click on Import License, browse for the file location, and upload it by clicking on the Import License button. If everything is ok, you will receive a confirmation message about the success of the loading operation.

Click on Vendor Daemon (in our case, the default daemon is called Citrix), then and click on Reread license file, to make sure that everything is correct.