Citrix Cloud On Premise Storefront



One of the main benefits of Citrix Cloud is that by moving components like the Delivery Controllers, StoreFront servers, and SQL servers to it, you reduce the footprint within your own data centers, and the time it takes to manage, monitor, and keep those components up to date with frequent code and security patches. Scenario: A Citrix Administrator is enabling TLS Secure connections between the Cloud Connectors and on-premises StoreFront. After configuring the TLS certificate on all Cloud Connectors and disabling HTTP connections, the administrator finds that no resources are being enumerated. Which extra step does the administrator need to take to allow enumeration to work between on-premises. Citrix StoreFront. Download as a PDF. Enterprise app store that enables mobile workspaces. Citrix StoreFront is an enterprise app store that improves security and simplifies deployments, delivering a modern, unmatched near-native user experience across Citrix Workspace app on any platform. If you plan to use an on-premises StoreFront deployment, to enumerate resources from Citrix Cloud, add the Cloud Connectors in as Delivery Controllers to your StoreFront store. To test, browse to your StoreFront URL, or use Workspace app, and you should be able to see resources enumerated from Citrix Cloud. If the service package purchased is Citrix Cloud Add-on, you will receive term on-premises User/Device licenses for the term of your corresponding Citrix Cloud subscription. Notwithstanding the foregoing, only those users or devices covered by your Citrix Cloud subscription may use on-premises term licenses to connect to the Citrix Cloud Services.

This post is a continuation of my previous posts into getting a simple Citrix Cloud Environment up an running and integrated with an on-premise environment as per this diagram:

Citrix Cloud On Premise Storefront

(taken from https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud/xenapp-and-xendesktop-service/technical-security-overview.html)

So far in the series we have gone through the following steps:

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1) Installed and configured the Citrix Cloud Connector – https://itsolutionsdirect.com/citrix-cloud-connector-installation/798/

2) Configured the Citrix VDA Agent and registered a server with Citrix Cloud – https://itsolutionsdirect.com/citrix-vda-agent-for-citrix-cloud/824/

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3) Created and configured the Delivery Group – https://itsolutionsdirect.com/citrix-cloud-delivery-group-creation/853/

4) Explored the scalability and performance of hosting services on-premise or in Azure –https://itsolutionsdirect.com/citrix-cloud-sizing-and-scalability/875/

The next logical step in this series is to implement the recommendations in Step number 4 which was to host StoreFront on-premise so that any AD Authentication is performed locally and the StoreFront servers are in close proximity to your clients. There are a few different scenarios which can be deployed which are discussed in more detail here: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud/xenapp-and-xendesktop-service/setting-up-storefront.html

So let’s go ahead and configure our existing infrastructure so that our Citrix Cloud is able to communicate with our on-premise StoreFront servers and ensure that everything is working as it should.

1) I am starting with a fresh StoreFront installation which is latest version is 3.11. This can be downloaded from https://www.citrix.co.uk/downloads/storefront-web-interface/

2) Step through the installation as you normally would do for a normal StoreFront installation (which it essentially is!)

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3) Select an appropriate Store name

4) Now this is the interesting bit. Where we would normally enter out Citrix Delivery Controller here we enter the name for the Cloud Connector. The Cloud Connector then proxies any requests onto the Citrix hosted Delivery Controllers over HTTPS.

5) Enter your authentication requirements, I am just using basic authentication for this test

6) Once you have gone through all your other configurations you should now have the Store configured and ready to test

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7) The next test is to ensure that we can access the StoreFront page which we can successfully

8) When we enter our credentials we are authenticated against the local AD Controllers and then the Citrix Cloud service is queries for our applications which are then displayed to us and launched successfully. Once again an extremely painless installation and configuration.

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Good job Citrix!! In the next article I will go through the NetScaler integration.