Chapter 3. Setting Up the Infrastructure Components

In this chapter, we are going to work on setting up the base of our Citrix XenApp infrastructure, which is the prerequisite and a very important part of the Citrix XenApp desktop infrastructure.

Overview

We will be setting up four different infrastructure components listed here:

  • Domain controller: As per Citrix, at least one domain controller is required for the XenApp 7.6 deployments, and that should have the active directory domain services role installed on it.
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP): The DHCP plays an important role when we configure Citrix Provisioning Services, which is the software streaming technology by Citrix. With Citrix Provisioning Services, one can provision or re-provision ...

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