XenApp 5.6 to 6.7 migration: selective applications to use

XenApp 5.6 to 6.7 migration: selective applications to use - Import

The XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.6 Migration Tool consists of a series of simple PowerShell scripts

This Export Farm and policy data from XenApp 6.5 in XML files. These XML files are then imported via a script into an existing XenDesktop 7.6 site. The scripts are from the XenApp 7.6 product download page, you will be with an appropriate login ID to have access the product software page login: http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenapp.html

to the scripts to use is simple and Citrix eDocs contains detailed instructions: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop-76/xad-xamigrate.html

After the export, you have the XML files, allowing you to do selective imports the -MatchFolder or -NotMatchFolder modifiers. For example, your XenApp 6.5 has a farm application folder named EMEA, which contains the following folders: Distribution, IT support and accounting. You can use the following command to import the applications in the fields of sales and accounting folder, but the IT support folder skip:

  Import XAFarm -XmlInputFile myFarmFile.xml   -MatchFolder "Applications / EMEA" -NotMatchFolder "Applications / EMEA / IT Support"  

In addition, you can instead only the sales and accounting folder for import, give all other with the following command skip:

  import XAFarm -XmlInputFile myFarmFile.xml   -MatchFolder "Applications / EMEA / (Sales | Accounting)"  

Finally, one might use -NotMatchFolder modifier alone everything, but to import the IT support folder:

  import XAFarm -XmlInputFile myFarmFile.xml   -NotMatchFolder "Applications / EMEA / IT Support " 

Do not forget that you can practice these modifiers by adding -Preview until the end of the command. In this way, you can see the results of the import script to see without actually importing objects into your website.

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