We figured it would be a good idea to create a
how-to document outlining the quickest way to
configure terminal services for Citrix XenApp on
your Windows Server 2008 (x64,x86) OS.
In this
scenario, we have recently built out a Windows
Server 2008 system via our local Microsoft
Virtual PC configuration on our Windows 7 64bit
OS. The build was relatively easy, you can
follow our step by step doc
here to review the process. Now that we have
the OS ready, lets configure for terminal
service...
- click on start - run, then type in
"control" w/o the quotes and hit enter or
click on "ok"
- step 1 will bring up the control panel.
Click on "administrative tools" and then
click on "server manager"
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- (above is a screen capture of
administrative tools)
- within the server manager UI, click on
"Roles" and then click on "Add Roles"
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- Now click on "next at the "add roles
wizard"
- for the seasoned server expert,
go ahead an click on the box to the
right of "skip this page by default"
if you don't want to see this prompt
again.
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- after you have made your selection,
click on next to proceedd
- you'll then be prompted by a
friendly reminder indicating, terminal
services is not needed for
administrative purposes. I believe you
can have two successive connections to
any server without needing any
additional CALS. But for this scenario,
its for XenApp - so we want to add the
role anyway so click on "next" to
proceed.
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- make selection and click on "next"
to continue..
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- this is a fresh install of server
2008 so there are no worries here, click
on next to continue..
- this next prompt depends completely
on the the type of environment your are
creating. we have a mixed mode terminal
server client environment so we are
going to select "do not require network
level authentication". note: this is a
lab environment and the message says its
less secure, and we already know that.
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- click on next to proceed
- now you have several options for the
licensing mode. configure later, per
device, or per user. we are going to
select per user. if you have multiple
cals and all are different, know which
ones you are in need of prior to the
selection. I guess its also worth
mentioning, these settings can be
changed at any time. Plus this is lab
environment anyway.
- click on "next to proceed"
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- in this lab, we don't yet have a
domain setup yet so we are going to
select the default. here is where you
would configure your domain users. Note:
this can be changed at any time.
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- yep we get it, and all of which is
explained above, we agree..
- click on "install" to finally
configure your terminal services.
- Oh, and Reboot please. Click on
"close" to prompt for the reboot..
