Project Avalon Excalibur (aka XenDesktop 7) Technology Preview: Installation and Configuration Using Windows Server 2012 Exclusively! Part 4

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If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into five parts:

Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the Site
Part 2: Preparing the Master Server for Imaging
Part 3: Creating the Hosting Infrastructure Connection and Deploying a Catalog from the Master Server
Part 4: Creating the Delivery Group and Publishing an Application < YOU ARE HERE!
Part 5: Configuring StoreFront 1.3 Services and Launching a Published Application

Navigate to Delivery Groups and select Create Application Delivery Group:


Click Next:

Select the Catalog and enter a quantity of servers to be added to the delivery group. Click Next.

User profile settings can be defined directly using this wizard. I’ll save this piece for a future blog post. For now, leave the default setting selected and click Next:

Enter a delivery group name and click Finish:

Since the next step requires that we browse to the installation location for Microsoft Office, it would be best if we power up the machines in the catalog at this point. To do this, we can double click the delivery group:

From the Windows Server Machines tab we can select all the servers and click Start from the right action pane:

Click Yes to power on the servers:

After a couple minutes the servers will power on and we can proceed with creating the applications. Select the Applications section and click Create Application:

Click Add Existing:

Check the delivery group and click OK:

Click Next:

Click Browse next to program executable:

Uncheck Show only available machines. Select a server from the list and choose C$ from the Share drop-down. Click Browse.

To publish Outlook 2013, browse to \\Server\C$\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\Outlook.exe. Double Click the executable.

For Outlook 2013 no additional parameters are required. Click Next:

Click Add. Browse to find the appropriate Active Directory Security Group and click Next.

Optional: Enter a client folder and click Next:

Optional: Change any necessary Advanced options such as Advanced Access Controls, Appearance, Content Redirection, Multimedia, ApplicationsStrings, or Security. Click Next:

Provide a descriptive application name and click Next:

Review and click Finish:

Optionally repeat these steps to publish the remainder of the Office suite. Continue below to configure the StoreFront 1.3 Services and launch a published application.

To continue reading, please choose from the following:
Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the Site
Part 2: Preparing the Master Server for Imaging
Part 3: Creating the Hosting Infrastructure Connection and Deploying a Catalog from the Master Server
Part 4: Creating the Delivery Group and Publishing an Application < YOU ARE HERE!
Part 5: Configuring StoreFront 1.3 Services and Launching a Published Application

If you have any questions, comments, or just want to leave feedback, please do so below. Thanks for reading!

–youngtech

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