I’ve been doing a heap of work with a new Citrix XenApp 6.5 deployment using single sign on, here are a bunch of links that helped me get everything up and running.
Configure Pass-through Authentication for Citrix XenApp 6.5
http://www.virtuallyimpossible.co.uk/configure-pass-through-authentication-for-citrix-xenapp-6-5/
Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right!
Some useful stuff about getting folder redirection working.
http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/11/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right/
Configure URLs for online plugin
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112674
A Field Guide to XenApp 6.5 Session Pre-Launch
This gives a great explination of what pre-launch is too.
http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/10/a-field-guide-to-xenapp-session-pre-launch/
XenApp applications won’t launch in a PVS environment with multiple network interfaces
http://www.jasonsamuel.com/2012/10/08/xenapp-applications-wont-launch-in-a-pvs-environment-with-multiple-network-interfaces/
Removing hidden or ghosted devices from a Windows virtual machine (2010145)
Useful if you’ve cloned or P2Ved a machine.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2010145
How to Set Up Session Sharing Precedence Over Load Balancing in a XenApp Farm
Useful for prelaunch and when you have non concurrent licensing.
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126839
Automatic creation of user folders for home, roaming profile and redirected folders
Why you would try to do this manually I don’t know.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/06/30/automatic-creation-of-user-folders-for-home-roaming-profile-and-redirected-folders.aspx
Security Recommendations for Roaming User Profiles Shared Folders
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757013.aspx
Load balance XML brokers through Netscaler
http://www.thegenerationv.com/2009/07/how-to-resolve-xml-black-hole-in-xenapp.html
How to fix the latency issue with load balanced XML Brokers through netscaler (TL;DR enable UDP 137 to your virtual server IP)http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX118670
Understanding Citrix XML Broker
A good overview of how all the XML bits work
http://apttech.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/understanding-citrix-xml-broker-and-troubleshooting-one-xml-broker-issue/
How to Use the Command Line to Install the Version 11.2 Plug-in or Later
Pretty much required to get SSO working (unless you’re running the Enterprise version)
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123448
Why You Shouldn’t Install Citrix Receiver on Citrix XenApp
Only true if you don’t use session pre-launch!
http://www.xenappblog.com/2011/why-you-shouldnt-install-citrix-receiver-on-citrix-xenapp/
Reduce application launch time with Session Pre Launch
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/receiver-windows-34/receiver-windows-session-pre-launch.html#receiver-windows-session-pre-launch
XenApp 6/6.5 Profile Optimization
http://www.citrixirc.com/?p=99
Customize the default local user profile when preparing an image of Windows
This seems like way more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289
To specify a template or mandatory profile for Citrix User Profile Manager
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/user-profile-manager-5-x/upm-template-profile-t.html#upm-template-profile-t
UPMConfigCheck Tool
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132805
