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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

Overview of this book

XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6.5 Farms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing Citrix Web Interface Server


One of the common tasks, almost every customer wants is the customization of Citrix Web Interface and William is no exception. He wants to remove all Citrix branding logos and change color to corporate colors (blue and red). The following is a screenshot of the original Citrix Web Interface Logon page and its different parts.

  1. Header section

  2. Header Citrix logo

  3. Horizontal Page Upper section

  4. Product Name logo

  5. Device image

  6. Horizontal Page Lower section

  7. Tagline text

  8. Footer Citrix logo

  9. Footer HDX logo

  10. Footer section

Now, let's help William to customize the Web Interface. The process will require:

  • Backup of Web Interface folder

  • Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS to understand and/or customize changes

The first step is creating a backup of Web Interface folder, just in case. He needs to back up the folder C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\XenApp, where XenApp is the folder of the XenApp Web Site's site.

Also, if the site got corrupted after any change, we can repair the site, using...