Now it’s time to publish our first application to our clients. Go into the Citrix Delivery Services Console if it is not already running.
On the left side of the window drill down to Citrix Resources > XenApp > Applications. In the right actions pane click Publish Applications.
Click Next.
I’ll publish the Calculator, so enter a Display Name and click Next.
This is a simple application published from the XenApp server. Click Next.
Browse for the Calc.exe of enter the information as above and click Next.
Click Add to select the server that this application is published from.
Double click Servers in the top box. Then double click the XenApp server to add and it will appear in the bottom. Then click OK.
Make sure a server appears, then click Next.
Click Add to select users for this application.
Double click this server, then double click the user group you’d like to publish this application to. I’ll choose the local standard “Users” group. If the XenApp server is in a windows domain it will also publish to members of the Domain Users group. Click OK.
Click Next.
Click Next.
Click Finish.
The published application should now appear in the Delivery Console.
Installing the Citrix Online Plugin
Now let’s configure a client computer for XenApp 6. One important thing to note is that you should be running the latest version of the Citrix XenApp Online Plugin client version 12. You can download it here. I had issues getting previous versions of the Plugin to connect to the XenApp 6 server, but with version 12 all is well. Also since Program Neighborhood is no longer included with the current Plugin client that functionality appears to no longer be supported. Instead we’ll use the XenApp Services Site we set up earlier (formerly Program Neighborhood Agent) to provide the settings for our client to connect with.
Now we need to install the Online Plugin client on a workstation. There are two clients bundled in the Plugin client download, I will install the Full Plugin client, CitrixOnlinePluginFull.exe. It will proceed with the installation. Once completed it should prompt you for the server.
Enter your server name and click Update. It should now ask for your logon credentials. If it doesn’t, right click the Citrix icon in the system tray and select Log On.
Enter your user, password, and domain if this is an Active Directory environment. To specify a local user account to the XenApp server type the computer name in the domain field. Click OK.
Now left click the Citrix icon and select your application that you published earlier. You should now be running your first XenApp 6 published application!
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