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Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Lesson 7 – Configuration Logging
Configuration logging is a way of auditing changes to your XenApp farm. You will need a separate database for this. The user account you use to access the db will need db-owner rights to the configuration database and SELECT on the sys.users and sys.objects views in the master database. With this enabled then we can…
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Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Lesson 6 – Adding workergroups
In this lesson we look at creating work groups. These were introduced into XenApp 6 and allow for easier assignment of applications and policies and for fail-over load balancing. Individual XenApp servers can be added to a worker group or you can add Active Directory Groups or OUs. We will look at creating a worker…
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Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Lesson 5 – Adding Farm administrators with AppCenter and PowerShell
In this lesson 5, we add administrators to our XenApp 6.5 farm. Using both PowerShell and AppCenter. More than this though, we also look at installing the management tools onto Windows & so that we may use the management tools on our own desktop.
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Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Lesson 4 – Zone Data Collectors and elections
In this lesson we look more at the data collector elections, ZDC elections.XenApp servers are organized into zones which would normally represent geographical locations within your organization. So you may have a data centre in London with XenApp servers and a data centre in Manchester also with XenApp servers. In which case, you would create…
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Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Lesson 3 – Adding a second server to the farm
In this video we add the second Citrix XenApp 6.5 server to our farm. This time round we can see that we have choice between session controller and hosts or host only. We assign the session host only role to illustrate that the server cannot participate in data collect elections. Additionally we see that this…
