Nowadays, all these prerequisites are embedded in the installation phase. Also with previous versions several prerequisites should be installed in advance before the XenApp installation could be performed. From XenApp 6 Citrix changed this behavior by separating the actual installation and the phase to set-up or connect to the XenApp environment. If you have installed an earlier release of Citrix XenApp you probably remember that you have to provide a lot of configuration settings during the installation phase. Both SQL and Windows Authentication can be used.įigure 1: Creating the SQL database for the XenApp 6.5 environment. When using a dedicated SQL server, the database should be created in advance via the normal SQL steps. When you are planning to have more than 10 Citrix XenApp servers, Citrix advises to use this dedicated SQL Server even if one is not available. Therefore a dedicated SQL server is advised, when one is available.

Secondly, the server also has the SQL database role, so should always have resources available to carry out the tasks for this role. First of all, this server is important and should be available as much as possible (Citrix XenApp servers have the ability to work without a database for 96 hours). This works fine, but has some disadvantages. For a small environment an SQL express can be used, which will be located at the first server you install. PreparationsĬitrix XenApp needs to have a database in which the (static) settings are stored. The first part of this series describes the installation steps of the first server (which will create the XenApp environment) and the following server that will join the XenApp environment afterwards.

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