Managing Citrix Administrators

Citrix provides a very simple (and powerful) approach to manage Citrix Administrators. We can assign the Citrix Administrator role to existing Active Directory accounts for both users and groups.

Adding a Citrix administrator

Now we are going to help William Empire from Brick Unit Construction create a full administrator for himself.

From the Start menu, he selects All Programs | Citrix | Management Consoles | Citrix AppCenter if it's XenApp 6.5 or the Citrix Delivery Services Console if it's XenApp 6.0.

In the left pane, he needs to expand Citrix Resources and then XenApp, click on farm name, and then on the right pane, he needs to select Action | Add administrator.

Finally, he needs to click on the Add button and select the desired user or user group account. In this case, he is going to add the wempire account as a Citrix administrator.

On the Privileges page, he needs to select the privilege level he wants to grant to his own user account. He has three options...