Standard deployment Citrix^® Component

Citrix Receiver is an easy-to-install client software that provides access to your XenDesktop and XenApp installations. This is a mandatory client which has to be installed on the user's device to establish the connection with the XenApp environment. Citrix also releases support for the user device on which users don't have permission to install the Citrix Receiver; in those cases, user can access the resources from the HTML5-supported browser.

Citrix Director provides a detailed and intuitive overview of XenDesktop environments. It enables support and helpdesk teams to quickly and seamlessly perform crucial support tasks for their end users while, at the same time, monitoring and troubleshooting system issues before they become system-critical.

StoreFront provides a unified interface for XenApp, XenDesktop, and VDI-in-a-Box to deliver the resource, either via web or receiver to the users. It also allows users to connect from anywhere and any device.

Most of you are already aware that Citrix announced the end of life for the Citrix web interface on August 24, 2016, but you can still use the web interface. If you have the software maintenance or subscription advantage programs, then the EOL date is June 30, 2018. The reason behind the end of life was that the web interface was written in J# code, and Microsoft had announced the end of life of this technology. As a result, Citrix developed StoreFront from scratch to provide the next generation features.

Just like web interface, StoreFront also authenticates users and enumerates desktops and applications into the stores that users can access through the receiver, but it goes beyond web interface to simplify the management of XenApp and XenDesktop deployments. StoreFront has the ability to enumerate the resource and authenticate multiple XenApp Farms or XenDesktop sites, which improves the performance.

It also has some other attractive features:

Installed on servers in the data center, the controller authenticates users and manages the assembly of users' virtual desktops and application environments and brokers connections between users and their virtual desktops and applications. It controls the state of the desktops, starting and stopping them, based on demand and administrative configuration.

Also, from the Delivery Controller server, you manage the complete XenApp infrastructure, starting from managing the administrator to optimizing the user experience. This is the first server that you install to create the XenApp environment. When installing this, you configure most of the parts starting from naming your site, configuring the database, specifying your License Server, and other tasks.

Citrix Studio is a high-level admin console to configure and manage the XenApp and XenDesktop components. Admin can do the following tasks with the help of Citrix Studio: