XenAppPrep - soon to be released
Been having a little look at Shannon Ma’s Citrix web log today and have been reading with interest about XenAppPrep which is a tool that allows you to clone XenApp servers in a nice clean manner. You basically setup your XenServer with all the apps and customisation /fine tuning required, install the XenAppPrep application and run it to remove all machine specific information. Run any other tools such as sysprep and then capture your image using whatever imaging software you usually use.
When the clone comes online the XenAppPrep service starts, reset all the machine specific information and start services such as IMA. You’ve now got a nice clean new XenApp Server without any of the normal hassle associated with cloning a Citrix server.
You can read more about XenAppPrep at the link below and read about Automated Deployment on Shannon’s blog which is linked in the blogroll to the right of this article.
http://shannonma.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/cloning-a-xenapp-server-with-xenappprep/
