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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

Managing Citrix Administrators


Citrix provides a very simple (and powerful) approach to manage Citrix Administrators. We can assign the Citrix Administrator role to existing Active Directory accounts for both users and groups.

Adding a Citrix administrator

Now we are going to help William Empire from Brick Unit Construction create a full administrator for himself.

From the Start menu, he selects All Programs | Citrix | Management Consoles | Citrix AppCenter if it's XenApp 6.5 or the Citrix Delivery Services Console if it's XenApp 6.0.

In the left pane, he needs to expand Citrix Resources and then XenApp, click on farm name, and then on the right pane, he needs to select Action | Add administrator.

Finally, he needs to click on the Add button and select the desired user or user group account. In this case, he is going to add the wempire account as a Citrix administrator.

On the Privileges page, he needs to select the privilege level he wants to grant to his own user account. He has three options...