Citrix Director is a component of XenApp/XenDesktop and is used to manage and monitor user sessions via a web browser. This article goes through the steps of installing Director 7.9 on a server and optionally configuring SSL for use with it. Insert the Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 installation media. Once the autorun program starts click Start for either XenApp or XenDesktop. Click Citrix Director under the Extend Deployment section. Accept the license agreement and click Nex

Citrix Provisioning Services can be used to automate the creation of virtual desktops and XenApp servers using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard. This article goes through the process of creating a VM template that Provisioning Services can use to create VM's from. Using XenDesktop Setup Wizard to create multiple VM's and create a delivery group on XenDesktop. Log on to the VMware vSphere Web Client. Click on VMs and Templates. Select the master VM image used to create the Provisio

To access published applications and/or desktops virtual desktops and XenApp session servers need to be deployed into a machine catalog and added to a delivery group. The Machine catalog is just a collection of VM's or physical computers that have the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent installed and are available for use by users. The Delivery Group provides access to published desktops and/or applications; computers available in one or more machine catalogs are added to the deliv

To allow users to log on to virtual desktops and/or servers the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) needs to be installed on each machine that will except user sessions. This article goes through the steps of installing the VDA on a Windows 7 virtual desktop. Insert the Citrix XenDesktop 7.9 media kit in the DVD-Drive of the virtual desktop Click on Start for XenDesktop. Click on Virtual Delivery Agent for Windows Desktop OS under Prepare Machines and Images. Select Create a

Citrix StoreFront sits between the client machines and XenApp/XenDesktop delivery controllers. StoreFront queries the delivery controllers for the desktops and applications that have been published on XenApp/XenDesktop and presents them back to the user. The user can then launch the desktops and applications using the Citrix Receiver or a web browser. This article goes through the steps of configuring StoreFront... The first step is to create an SSL certificate on StoreFront.

Citrix StoreFront is the web component that is part of the XenApp/XenDesktop infrastructure. It is a required component used to launch desktops and/or applications via a web browser or directly through the Citrix Receiver. The following article goes through the steps to installing this piece of software on a Windows server. Insert the Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 installation media into the CD-ROM drive. Once the Autorun starts, click on Start next to either XenApp or XenDesk

In order for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop to interact with the hypervisor a hypervisor connection needs to be created. The connection is used by XenApp/XenDesktop to create virtual machines and manage them. This article goes through the steps of setting it up with VMware vSphere. The configuration work is carried out on the XenApp/XenDesktop Delivery Controllers. XenApp/XenDesktop makes an https connection to the VMware vCenter Server and therefore needs to trust the certificate

By default XenApp and XenDesktop Delivery Controllers uses http for communication, which is not very secure. This article goes through the steps to encrypt traffic sent to the Delivery Controller using SSL/TLS on port 443. First the Delivery Controller needs to be issued a trusted an SSL certificate, so open the MMC console. Click on File > Add/Remove Snap-in... Select Certificates from the list and click Add. Select Computer account because the computer needs to be able to a

Once the XenApp or XenDesktop Delivery Controller has been installed a site is created containing all the environments configuration. Part of the site creation process is the creation of three databases configuration (site), logging and monitoring. This article will go through the steps of creating a site including the three databases. Launch Citrix Studio and click Deliver applications and desktops to your users. Enter Site name and select An empty, unconfigured Site, so you

Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 Delivery Controller is a required component that brokers connections to Remote Desktop servers and virtual desktops. This article goes through the process of installing the Delivery Controller component on its own server. Insert the XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 installation media and click Start next to XenApp or XenDesktop depending upon, which product was purchased or is to be evaluated. Under Getting Started, click on Delivery Controller to begin the