In this document we will see a manual migration process of an organization with Citrix XenApp 6 or 6.5, we'll look at how to export both policies and apps from our old farms to a new community in Citrix XenApp 7.6, optionally we can also make an on-site upgrade of the XenApp 6.x servers themselves to VDA 7.6 to be able to reuse them!

If we want to export application settings or policies from our Citrix Xenapp 6.x farms with IMA to our Citrix XenApp communities 7.6 with FMA, We will be able to download XenApp Migration Script from the official MyCitrix website. If you want to see all the new features that the version brought 7.6 on both XenApp and XenDesktop, feel free to view this document! Additionally, we will be able to make an on-site upgrade of the XenApp servers themselves 6 o XenApp 6.5 a Virtual Delivery Agent 7.6, the Citrix installer itself will uninstall all the software that is obsolete and will install the VDA of this new version!

Importing/Exporting Policies and Applications,

Once decompressed, from a XenApp server 6 or 6.5, if we are interested in exporting Citrix policies, we will execute the following commands from PowerShell to obtain an XML file that we will later import into our community 7.6:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Import-Module .ExportPolicy.psd1
Export-Policy -XmlOutputFile ".Config_Politicas.XML" -LogFile ".Politicas_export. Log"

If what we are interested in is exporting the applications and their configurations from our farm 6 or 6.5 to the new community of the 7.6 we'll do the following from PowerShell:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Import-Module .ExportXAFarm.psd1
Export-XAFarm -XmlOutputFile ".Config_Granja.XML" -LogFile ".Granja_export. Log"

To import the above configurations, In the case of directives, from a PowerShell of a Controller we will run:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Import-Module .ImportPolicy.psd1
Import-Policy -XmlInputFile ".Config_Politicas.XML" -LogFile ".Politicas_import. Log"

Being able to add the parameter '-Preview’ which will tell us what changes you will make.

We will also import the applications and their configurations, we can set the parameter '-Preview’ so you can simulate the import and see what changes you might make, It would be important to see all the parameters as it has several interesting ones.

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Import-Module .ImportXAFarm.psd1
Import-XAFarm -XmlInputFile ".Config_Granja.XML" -LogFile ".Granja_import. Log"

Sample screenshot of community apps 6.5 imported in a 7.6, just as if we go to the directives we will also have them!

On-site upgrade from XenApp 6.x to VDA,

If we want, we will be able to update our application servers with Citrix XenApp 6.x, replacing old Citrix software with new, on the same DVD it will detect us and tell us that we can “Replace XenApp 6.5 with VDA”,

If we run the wizard, we will check that it will uninstall the old version of Citrix and install the new VDA! We will have to restart during the migration a couple of times and we will have the server ready again to be able to serve apps from the new community!!!

Official Guide to migrate XenApp 6.x and video How to use the tool.