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Mastering XenApp

By : Sunny Jha
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Mastering XenApp

By: Sunny 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 (16 chapters)
Mastering XenApp
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the domain controller


In this section of this chapter, I will take you through the step-by-step configuration of the active directory domain service. We will do this configuration on one of the preinstalled Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 servers.

We will use this role of Microsoft for authenticating the XenApp 7.6 users to apply group policy and manage computer accounts.

Tip

We already have the preinstalled Microsoft Windows server 2012 R2, so now we will set up the active directory domain service on it. Before we start doing the configuration, there are a few points that you should be aware of:

In earlier versions of Microsoft Windows, we used to have the DCPROMO command to install the ADDS, but in Microsoft Windows 2012, it is not supported.

It is recommended that the server on which you will be installing ADDS should have a static IP address assigned to it.

Let's begin the configuration by following these steps:

  1. To start the configuration, click on ADD roles and features on the server...