Citrix StoreFront Configuration

1. When the wizard starts enter a store name.

2. Now we need to add the delivery controllers (Controller1) that StoreFront will interface with

6. Once the store is created it will give you the web browser URL that you can use to access it. Also take note that to access StoreFront from a web browser you must append “Web” to the store URL, as the URL shows below. Don’t try going to /Citrix/Store as that won’t work.

7. To change the StoreFront base URL you can go to the Server Group node and in the right pane select Change Base URL. Change URL to use HTTPS and port 8080

8. Back in the StoreFront console, after refreshing, you can see that the service is using HTTP.

9. One quick tweak to make authentication easier is to set a default domain. This way the user doesn’t have to enter a domain when authenticating to the StoreFront web site. Locate the Authentication node, then in the right pane click on Configure Trusted Domains.

And that’s pretty much it to get an operational StoreFront. If you open your browser and go to the full web store URL you should get a green bubbly Citrix receiver page.

XenDesktop 7 Machine Catalog

1. In Desktop Studio we want to create a VM catalog,

2. Choose the OS type

3. We will be using VMs and Citrix Machine Creation Services, so the defaults are fine.

4. Use the default

5. Choose the master image WDK_8_1 master image

6. A great feature of XenDesktop is the ability to customize the catalog hardware at provisioning time, so you can offer different tiers of VMs from the exact same master image. No need to build up templates with the same OS and software stack, just to customize the vCPUs and memory specs.

7. OU –

8. On the summary screen you need to give the catalog a name and a description.

9. After you kick off the provisioning process you get a nice status. MCS first makes a copy of your master VM, then does its magic to create copies

10. When the provisioning is completed you now have one machine catalog entry

11. If you double click on the machine catalog it will bring up a search window with the individual VMs listed. You can now power them on and wait for them to show a “registered” status. If you click on an individual VM it will pull up even more details. If a user had an active session to the VM then you get a plethora more data.

As you can see, creating a machine catalog from a master template is quick and easy. Within Desktop Studio you can view a tremendous amount of detail about the catalog and individual VMs.

The wizard is run directly from a Provisioning Services Console.

• Right-click on the Site icon in the Console tree panel, then select the Streamed VM Setup Wizard... menu option. The Welcome to the Streamed VM Setup Wizard appears.

• Click Next to begin the setup.
• Select the type of hypervisor (Xenserver per the Simulation) to connect to, then enter the required connection credentials.

• Click Next to verify the connection.

Note: For convenient reuse, the most recently used hypervisor and username will be cached in the registry of the local machine running this instance of the Console.

Note: XenServer 5.5 Update 2 hypervisors are not supported in the 5.6.1 Streamed VM Setup Wizard. System Center Virtual Machine Management (SCVMM) servers require PowerShell 2.0 to be installed.

• Optional. On the Hypervisor cluster screen, select the hypervisor host or cluster to host the VMs, then click Next.
• Select one VM template from the specified host, then click Next.
• On the Collection and vDisk page, select the collection in which to add VMs.
• Select a single shared vDisk within to assign to VMs within that collection, then click Next.

Web_Server vDisk

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• Set the number of VMs to create, the number of vCPUs, and the amount of Memory each new virtual machine will use.

1 VM per the Simulation- CCHWebServer

• Enable the radio button next to one of the following methods used for adding Active Directory computer accounts, then click Next:

Note: An Active Directory administrator will need to delegate rights to the Provisioning Services Console user to allow Active Directory account creation.

Note: The domain and OU default to those of the current user.

Note: New computer names to be created are first validated that they do not already exist as computers in Active Directory, VMs, or target devices.

• If the Create new accounts method is selected:

Use – Web Server OU

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• Review all configuration settings, and then click Next to confirm and finish configurations.

Note: Clicking Cancel cancels the configuration of any additional machines, and the quantity of successfully configured machines displays under the Progress bar. If the wizard fails or is cancelled in the middle of an operation, any progress made is retained. If cleanup of existing progress is required, it must be done manually, which includes removing the following:

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