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Mastering XenApp??

By : Jha
Book Image

Mastering XenApp??

By: Jha

Overview of this book

Citrix® XenApp® is one of the leading pieces of Application delivery software that delivers Windows compatible apps to users on any device, anywhere. Citrix® XenApp® also gives administrators the ability to manage and control the freedom of mobility by increasing the security and saving costs at the same time. This book will provide you with all the knowledge required to successfully deploy and master a complete Citrix® hosted application. First, it will cover essential concepts of the architecture of XenApp®. You will then learn how to set up Hypervisor and how to set up Infrastructure components. Next you will learn how to Set up Citrix® Components, XenApp® resources, PVS, and Netscaler. We will further look at how to prepare the environment for Rollout. Additionally, you will learn how to configure the Citrix® components such as Citrix® Director. Moreover, you’ll learn about shared desktop for delivery to end users and the application of policies for effective and secure delivery. Finally, you will learn how to implement provisioning services for a Citrix® XenApp® 7.6 environment.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Setting up the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

The role of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is to assign the IP configuration to the clients automatically, which means this server role can help us in avoiding the manual task of assigning the IP configuration to the clients manually.

I have included this topic here because this Windows server role will play a critical role when we will implement the Citrix Provisioning Services to create and manage the disk images, and with the help of DHCP, we will boot the machines/virtual machines and configure the IP details as well.

We will install this server role on the Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 server. Let's take a look at the step-by-step configuration of DHCP:

  1. To start the configuration, open the server manager and then click on Add roles and features:
    Setting up the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  2. It will open a wizard that will take you through the steps of installation required to install DHCP role to the server. Click on Next:
    Setting up the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  3. In the Select installation type window, we will choose...