Chapter 3. Installing XenApp 6.5

In the last chapter, we learned about common Citrix farm terminologies, concepts, and discovered our case study, Brick Unit Construction. We discussed how to design a simple Citrix XenApp 6.5 farm and wrote a simple pilot plan. Now, we are going to install our first XenApp 6.5 servers.

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 ...

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