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Hi all,

We are migrating to a new XenApp 6.5 with 6 servers.

My question is, how do you manage these XenApp servers for maintenance? Like when you want to test a new published application?

At the moment, Im doing this:

  • Disable logons on Server1 (for example).

  • Install the published application, publish it to server1

  • Quickly enable the logins on Server1. Start the new published application

  • Disable back the logons to Server1, so nobody can logon to this server.

Whats the best procedure for this?

Thanks!

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I have 6 Xenapp servers, for testing I have a 7th that doesn’t associate with the farm. From there I will publish a new app and test myself. If the app is specific I will get a test bed of users and assign them to that server, then give them a unique login for that specific Citrix test server. After testing the app will be published to all the rest and normal logon resumes.

-Jay

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Our test server is in the farm, but the applications available to standard users don’t run on it. A separate set of apps that run exclusively on that server are set up for admins to use. If we need a wider testing group, we’ll push some users onto the test server temporarily by publishing the test server apps to those users.