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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

Installing and configuring XenApp 6.5


Now, let's take a look at the lab created by William to build the pilot farm at Brick Unit Construction, to test XenApp 6.5. Except where noted, most of these steps also can be applied to XenApp 6.0. He had two existing servers, an Active Directory domain controller, and a database server running on SQL Server 2008. He will deploy three new XenApp servers.

He will deploy Citrix Web Interface and Citrix License Server on one of the servers called BRICKXA65-01. Later, he will install Citrix XenApp 6.5 on servers BRICKXA65-02 and BRICKXA65-03.

The following is his plan to deploy the pilot farm:

  1. Install Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 on all servers. Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is required for all XenApp Applications servers, but he can use existing Windows Server 2008 R1 32-bit or 64-bit for database server, license server, and Web Interface servers.

  2. Join servers to the Active Directory domain.

  3. Configure Windows components (Windows Firewall...