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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By : Guillermo Musumeci
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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By: Guillermo Musumeci

Overview of this book

<p>XenApp 6 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. It reduces resources and costs for application distribution and management. Using Citrix XenApp 6, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> starts by introducing the basics of XenApp 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 Farms.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Installing and Configuring XenApp 6


Now, let's take a look at the lab created by William to build the pilot farm at Brick Unit Construction, to test XenApp 6. He had two existing servers, an Active Directory domain controller, and a database server running on SQL Server 2008. We will deploy three new XenApp servers.

He will deploy Citrix Web Interface and Citrix License Server on one of the servers called BRICKXA01. Later, he will install Citrix XenApp 6 on servers BRICKXA02 and BRICKXA03.

The following is his plan to deploy the pilot farm:

  1. Install Windows Server on all servers (Windows Server 2008 R2 is required for all XenApp applications servers, but he can use Windows Server 2008 R1 32-bit or 64-bit for the database server, license server, and Web Interface servers.

  2. Join servers to the Active Directory domain.

  3. Configure Windows components (Windows Firewall and IE ESC).

    1. Install Citrix Licensing Server and Citrix Web Interface on BRICKXA01.

    2. Configure Citrix Licensing Server.

    3. Install Citrix Licenses...