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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

Overview of this book

If you want to effectively deploy the various components of Citrix XenApp to create an enterprise environment for application and desktop delivery, this hands-on guide is perfect for you. You start off by understanding the need and benefits of Citrix XenApp with respect to Virtualization technology. After this, you will get to grips with the requirement analysis and designing aspect of building XenApp systems and all the necessary installation and configuration procedures for Citrix XenApp, StoreFront and NetScalar Gateway are explained one by one in detail. Step-by-step, you will learn to deploy your first XenApp with the Machine Creation Services method and Provisioning Services method. After this, you will explore the administering part of applications and systems, followed by printing in the XenApp environment. Next, you will learn all the trips and tricks required to troubleshoot and support the XenApp environment. By the end of this book, you will be ready to go live with your new XenApp environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Index

Chapter 4. Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp®

We are finally here and ready to deploy Citrix XenApp in a virtual environment. In this chapter, we will install and configure the software in a guest OS on a hypervisor. The following step-by-step approach is undertaken during the installation:

  • Creating a VM in XenServer

  • Installing Windows 2012 R2 on a VM from a CIFS share

  • Configuring networking and joining a machine to the domain

  • Mounting the XenApp ISO image and installing the XenApp 7.6 software

  • Creating another machine and installing Citrix License Server 11.12.1

  • Configuring the XenApp site