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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

Unattended install of XenApp 6.5


An unattended installation (also called silent installation) is one that does not require user interaction. Sometimes an unattended installation is called silent installation when it does not display any indication of status or progress. Mostly people use one or the other name to refer to automatic deployments.

Note

This process also, can be used to deploy XenApp 6.0 servers.

In XenApp 6.5, we can use two different commands to set up the server in unattended mode:

  • XenAppSetupConsole.exe: Is used to install XenApp components.

  • XenAppConfigConsole.exe: Is used to configure XenApp, join server to a farm, configure authentication, and so on.

We can use the following unattended install instructions to automatize the deployment of both physical and virtual XenApp servers.

Unattended install of XenApp Components

We learned how to install XenApp 6.5 in Chapter 3, Installing XenApp 6.5. We also found detailed information there. Let's take a quick look at the list of tasks...