Chapter 5. Installing and Configuring Citrix^® StoreFront™

In the previous chapter, we installed our first Citrix Delivery Controller and configured XenApp 7.6, which represents the Control Layer in our Citrix infrastructure. The next step in implementing the Citrix solution is to go ahead and build the access layer, which begins with Citrix StoreFront. StoreFront is a piece of software installed on a web server based on the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) role in Windows 2008 or 2012. The purpose of StoreFront is to authenticate users and aggregate XenApp applications and desktops into a unified web portal (Receiver for Web) or a native Receiver store where users can easily access their hosted resources. With StoreFront, IT administrators can also provide access to the same resources to users who do not have Citrix Receiver installed on their endpoint device via the Receiver for HTML5 option—a concept demonstrated later in the book. In this chapter...