Preparing the master virtual machine
As we are deploying Citrix XenApp to deliver the hosted application, in this section, we will be doing the basic task of preparing our virtual machine so that it can be used as a master template to deploy the virtual machine, which will be used in Machine Catalog to deliver the application.
For this section, I have already created a virtual machine with Windows server OS 2012 R2. To start preparing the master VM, we have to do the following things to avoid any issues:
- Join the virtual machine to an active directory domain.
- License and activate the operating system: This is important because once we create the machine from Master Image, it should contain the licensing information so that we don't have to do this task again and again.
- DHCP for network addressing: This is also important to avoid the IP conflicts if we don't use the DHCP.
- Install Virtual Delivery Agent: VDA is one of those plugins which facilitates the communication between the virtual...
