1. The installation source comes with the single setup feature for XenDesktop and XenApp.
Double-click the AutoSelect.exe, it will give you the option for deploying XenDesktop or XenApp.
2. Select XenApp. You can see the option for installing Citrix Delivery Controller for initial Citrix
XenApp environment setup. There are options for installing VDA for Windows and separate
Citrix components. I have selected to install CDC with all Citrix components in the same server.
3. I have selected Delivery Controller, Studio, Director, License Server, StoreFront in this server.
4. Select SQL Server 2012 Express for Datastore or you need to have a SQL server separately. Install
Remote Assistance for shadowing the client session from Director
5. It will automatically create the rules in the Windows Firewall.
6. It will show the summary of the installation before installation starts.
7. After installation Go to Start menu and click Citrix to find the components
8. Start Citrix Studio and setup a Site to deliver Citrix applications. From XenApp 7.5, Farm is not
available like XenDesktop.
9. Select an empty unconfigured Site as you are configuring for the first time. Give the Site name.
10. Provide SQL server name and the Database name and click test connection to verify.
11. As the Database does not exist, it will create a database automatically.
12. Database has been created and tested the database connection.
13. Before this setup I have download the Citrix license with this server hostname and configure
License server in this same server.
14. You can see the summary of the Site setup at the end.
15. The Site configuration has been completed.
16. Citrix Studio opens the Site and its components that have been created.
17. To deliver the applications or server desktop OS, you need to install VDA. So install VDA in the
Citrix application server.
18. Select enable connection to the server machine, if you want to deliver the desktop. To use PVS,
select to create a Master image.
19. The VDA will be installed, if you need to install Citrix Receiver select it.
20. Provide the Delivery Controller name
21. Select the features for improving the performance of the application.
22. It will automatically create the rules in the Windows Firewall.
23. It will display the summary of the installation and finish the VDA installation. Now the
applications in this server can be deliver to the users.
24. In the CDC, open the Citrix Studio and setup Machine Catalog
25. Select the Windows Server OS for the Machine Catalog operating system
26. I am not using MCS or PVS in this scenario to provision the server. I will deliver the application
through VDA installed in the server as well as the single instance of the Server OS Desktop.
27. Add the machine name where you installed VDA.
28. Machine Catalog has been created. Now open Delivery groups to create a group of servers to
deliver applications and desktops.
31. Provide the users for whom the applications to be delivered.
32. Provide the application name and the application details.
34. Select whether the application to be visible to all the users in a Delivery Group or to the
particular users.
35. You can also add the other applications from the server where you installed VDA.
36. Provide the StoreFront server name so that the Receiver can deliver the applications to the
users. Select Automatically, using the StoreFront Servers selected below.
38. Now the Delivery Groups with the Applications are ready to be delivered to the clients who
access through StoreFront server.
39. You can see the applications in the Delivery Group. If you use PVS then we can have multiple
server instance of the same application server.
40. You can also see how many Delivery Groups are using the StoreFront server for delivering the
applications.
41. I have configured the StoreFront as below. Now it is ready to test the applications from the
StoreFront server URL. I don’t have NetScaler configured in this scenario.
42. Type http://StoreFrontServer/Citrix/StoreWeb and login with your credential for accessing the
applications