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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 Citrix Licenses


Now we are going to install Citrix Licenses on our License server. We are going to install XenApp Evaluation Licenses. These licenses are valid for 90 days and they are perfect to evaluate XenApp.

The first step is to log in at www.citrix.com/mycitrix (this requires a MyCitrix account) and in the Choose a Toolbox menu select Previews/Betas – License Retrieval:

Then select XenApp Evaluation in the horizontal menu.

In this page, we need to click on the hyperlink of one of the serial numbers to start the activation process.

Next, we need to enter the hostname of Citrix License Server.

Note

Important: The hostname is case-sensitive.

To determine the hostname, on our license server machine, we need to open a command prompt window and type hostname.

The hostname returned will be in case-sensitive format. Copy this name to the hostname field box in MyCitrix.

The site then confirms the license allocation and tells us we can download the license.

And finally we are ready to download...