Publishing an Application in Citrix Xenapp 5

Publishing an application in Citrix is the act of making an application/desktop available either through the web interface or through the programme neighborhood.

There are quite a few settings to think about when publishing an application that affects not only security but performance of an application.

Applications are published to the access management console and rather than walking through the wizard clicks I will explain the various options you could choose on the way.

So once you have opened the access management console and chosen new/publish application in the application folder you will get to choose the following:-

Name
The first tab where you need to enter information is the name tab, all this requires is a friendly name and description of the app you are publishing.

Type
This tab allows you to specify what you are publishing. You can publish an application (i.e. adobe reader) , a complete desktop (good for using with thin clients) or content (i.e. web page or document).

Location
This is the file path to the applications exe or document.

Server
This allows you to select the server(s) that the application is installed on and you want users to have access too. For example a Citrix Farm consisting of 5 servers may all have adobe reader installed but for whatever reason you may only want users accessing adobe reader on 3 of the 5 servers.

Users
This is where you can specify users/groups that will have access to the published application. You can also specify to allow anonymous access which means all users will have access to the application. In real world Citrix deployments access is controlled by groups as administering individual users access to every application you publish will quickly become a nightmare.