Scripted installation of an Application

[JackelBarrett]

Hello,

I am running a Citrix cluster for Education, meaning we wipe the systems on a weekly basis.

How can I setup a scripted installation of the Citrix Application that I need to create rather than doing it by hand???

THank you,

 

[OzDog]

On the Metaframe XP CD, in the Support\Install directory there is an app called "unattendedinstall.exe"

Copy the CD to a network location, then Run the executable with the following syntax
unattendedinstall.exe <path & name of mfxp001.msi> <answerfile>.

EG.. (This is the whole command - so one line...)

\\server\MetaframeInstall\Support\Install\unattendedinstall.exe \\server\MetaframeInstall\mf\mfxp001.msi \\server\MetaframeInstall\UnattendedScript\script.txt

There are example scripts in the Support\install folder too. Cheers,
Sam

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[JackelBarrett]

My apologies, I believe I was unclear in what I was asking for. I am not looking to install Citrix Metaframe itself, but only to install the Published Applications (that the user attaches too) via a script.

I have setup a method to install Metaframe, but what I need is a script that allows me to publish the Desktop in an application. I have approx. 120 servers that need to have the app. published, and that is a decent amount of time when they are all done by hand. The only difference in any of the published apps would be the hostname of the system being added to the description area.

Thank you for your assistance.

 

[OzDog]

Ok, you are running many different published apps on different servers?

Anyway - join the CDN (Citrix Developer Network) at Citrix.com. I remember seeing an SDK in there that allowed you to publish apps programmatically, but don't remember the details. Cheers,
Sam

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[CitrixEngineer]

If you're using XPe, you can use IM to do this - just install the app on a clean MetaFrame server, and the Packager utility will record and create a modifiable script. There are plenty of documents on modifying IM scripts in Citrix's KB.

The great advantage of IM is that you can incorporate Publishing and Installing apps to many servers/groups of servers simultaneously and/or on a scheduled basis. CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk