Install and Configure Citrix XenApp 6.5 (Part III)

In Part II, you have completed the XenApp installation. However, like other application servers, configuration is required to get XenApp up and running.

Let continue our journey from following screen:

 

Click "Configure"

 Select the upper option to create a new XenApp farm (a group of XenApp servers with shared configuration). If you need join this XenApp to existing farm, select the bottom one. The steps are similar.

Fill in the name of farm and Citrix administrator account

 

Select the bottom one if you have existing Microsoft SQL server which is highly recommended for production.  The "New Database" means it will install a SQL express for you.

 

Fill in the database server name and database name. using Windows authentication is highly recommended.

 

Fill in the database access credential. Please take note here. If this account is changed in the future without any planning serious disaster will appear.

 

Test connection after entering the database credential.

 

Don't change anything here. The settings here are per server settings that cannot be changed in the future exception re-installation.

 

Don't select anything here. No option available here as this the first server. 

 

Select "Add the Authenticated Users" and deselect "Add Anonymous users" if you don't let your application accessed by anonymous.

 

Click "Apply". It may take an hour to complete.

 Click "Finish" to complete the configuration steps.

 

Reboot the server. 

After reboot, open "Citrix AppCenter" console. Congratulation if you get the screen after Discovery process.

 

Up to now, your XenApp is up and running. However, in order to reduce nightmare happens, we will need to have more configuration steps. 

Part IV is for you.