Excalibur Archives

Microsoft App-V 5: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8! Part 1

I have been spending quite a bit of time building and playing with Microsoft App-V 5 in my lab and decided I would post a quick setup guide to help get evaluation and initial environments up and running. This blog series will be broken into many parts, from SQL to App-V management, reporting, publishing, load balancing, sequencing, and client installations. The following topology diagram shows the initial environment including all the pieces broken out for scalability and high availability: For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation <-- YOU ARE HERE Part [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|April 23rd, 2013|Microsoft|5 Comments

Microsoft App-V 5: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8! Part 2

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation Part 2: Management and Reporting Server Installation <-- YOU ARE HERE Part 3: Publishing Server Installation, Registration, and Load Balancer Configuration Part 4: Sequencing and Client Installation To ease deployment, I’ve created a Prerequisites PowerShell quick reference. Copy the following to paste into an elevated PowerShell prompt: Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server Install-WindowsFeature Web-Asp-Net Install-WindowsFeature Web-Net-Ext Install-WindowsFeature Web-ISAPI-Ext Install-WindowsFeature Web-ISAPI-Filter Install-WindowsFeature Web-Windows-Auth Install-WindowsFeature Web-Mgmt-Console Install-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-45-ASPNET [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|April 23rd, 2013|Microsoft|1 Comment

Microsoft App-V 5: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8! Part 3

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation Part 2: Management and Reporting Server Installation Part 3: Publishing Server Installation, Registration, and Load Balancer Configuration <-- YOU ARE HERE Part 4: Sequencing and Client Installation On the Publishing Servers (WS12APPV502 and WS12APPV503 in my topology) complete the App-V installation, using the following processes. Repeat this same process for any additional publishing servers. To ease deployment, I’ve created a Prerequisites PowerShell quick [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|April 23rd, 2013|Microsoft|3 Comments

Microsoft App-V 5: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8! Part 4

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: Microsoft SQL Server Installation Part 2: Management and Reporting Server Installation Part 3: Publishing Server Installation, Registration, and Load Balancer Configuration Part 4: Sequencing and Client Installation <-- YOU ARE HERE The next logical step is to install the sequencing components. In my topology, I have a Windows 8 Sequencer and a Windows Server 2012 Sequencer. The installation process is the same for both. I would highly [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|April 23rd, 2013|Microsoft|5 Comments

Project Avalon Excalibur (aka XenDesktop 7) Technology Preview: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 Exclusively! Part 1

UPDATED May 24th, 2013: The new product name for Citrix Project Excalibur has been announced as XenDesktop 7! I can't speak for anyone else in the industry, but from my perspective, this is the most anticipated Tech Preview that I've been involved with to date! I am very excited about all the new capabilities that Citrix Project Excalibur (a component of Avalon) will bring to the table, and couldn't wait to get my hands dirty and start playing! Many industry experts have already covered some of the bases with Excalibur, that this is a move toward unifying XenApp and XenDesktop, [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|October 31st, 2012|Citrix, VMware|11 Comments

Project Avalon Excalibur (aka XenDesktop 7) Technology Preview: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 Exclusively! Part 2

If you've just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I've broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the Site Part 2: Preparing the Master Server for Imaging < YOU ARE HERE! Part 3: Creating the Hosting Infrastructure Connection and Deploying a Catalog from the Master Server Part 4: Creating the Delivery Group and Publishing an Application Part 5: Configuring StoreFront 1.3 Services and Launching a Published Application Again, install the .Net Framework feature by launching PowerShell [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|October 31st, 2012|Citrix, VMware|0 Comments

Project Avalon Excalibur (aka XenDesktop 7) Technology Preview: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 Exclusively! Part 3

If you've just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I've broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the Site Part 2: Preparing the Master Server for Imaging Part 3: Creating the Hosting Infrastructure Connection and Deploying a Catalog from the Master Server < YOU ARE HERE! Part 4: Creating the Delivery Group and Publishing an Application Part 5: Configuring StoreFront 1.3 Services and Launching a Published Application At this point we are ready to setup our [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|October 31st, 2012|Citrix, VMware|0 Comments

Project Avalon Excalibur (aka XenDesktop 7) Technology Preview: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 Exclusively! Part 4

If you've just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I've broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the Site Part 2: Preparing the Master Server for Imaging Part 3: Creating the Hosting Infrastructure Connection and Deploying a Catalog from the Master Server Part 4: Creating the Delivery Group and Publishing an Application < YOU ARE HERE! Part 5: Configuring StoreFront 1.3 Services and Launching a Published Application Navigate to Delivery Groups and select Create Application Delivery [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|October 31st, 2012|Citrix, VMware|0 Comments

Project Avalon Excalibur (aka XenDesktop 7) Technology Preview: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 Exclusively! Part 5

If you've just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I've broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the Site Part 2: Preparing the Master Server for Imaging Part 3: Creating the Hosting Infrastructure Connection and Deploying a Catalog from the Master Server Part 4: Creating the Delivery Group and Publishing an Application Part 5: Configuring StoreFront 1.3 Services and Launching a Published Application < YOU ARE HERE! Now we are ready to configure StoreFront. I've covered [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|October 31st, 2012|Citrix, VMware|4 Comments