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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

Configuring the Delivery Controller


Now that all the prerequisites have been met, you are ready to configure the XenApp Delivery Controller and site as a secure solution with only the level of access that is needed to communicate with the backend resources and manage the VMs. Let's proceed with setting up the new XenApp site from the Citrix Delivery Controller:

  1. From the Citrix Studio welcome page under Site Setup, choose Deliver applications and desktops to your users to launch the XenApp site configuration wizard.

  2. In the Introduction section, select A fully configured, production-ready Site (recommended for new users). This will allow you to leverage the wizard to create the site database, establish licensing, and connect to the hypervisor, network, and storage resources. Under Site name, choose and define a name for the new XenApp site to your preference; something short but descriptive is usually good. You may want to base it on the type of environment (lab versus production), geographic...