Unattended install of XenApp 6.5

An unattended installation (also called silent installation) is one that does not require user interaction. Sometimes an unattended installation is called silent installation when it does not display any indication of status or progress. Mostly people use one or the other name to refer to automatic deployments.

Note

This process also, can be used to deploy XenApp 6.0 servers.

In XenApp 6.5, we can use two different commands to set up the server in unattended mode:

• XenAppSetupConsole.exe: Is used to install XenApp components.

• XenAppConfigConsole.exe: Is used to configure XenApp, join server to a farm, configure authentication, and so on.

We can use the following unattended install instructions to automatize the deployment of both physical and virtual XenApp servers.

Unattended install of XenApp Components

We learned how to install XenApp 6.5 in Chapter 3, Installing XenApp 6.5. We also found detailed information there. Let's take a quick look at the list of tasks...