I have noticed that there isint any information around for deploying software to Citrix XenApp servers and changing the servers to install mode to install any exe's so i thought I would share my findings for deplying software to xenapp servers from Altris 7.6. Our XenApp servers are all 6.5
Firstly I created 2 batch files, 1 to run install mode and another to run execute mode and called them xa_install_mode.bat and xa_execute_mode.bat
change user /install
change user /execute
I then created a task package delivery to copy the batch files to the same location on all xenapp servers c:\scripts, in our infrastructure we over 200 servers. Create a software package and add the files but when you go to the command line don't fill anything and select advanced, you'll see an option to copy files.
I then created a new task for the software package for the exe that I needed installing and created the command line to run silently. Then I created 2 task command scripts that call the batch files we created earlier, one that runsthe install mode batch file and the other to change back to execute mode. The scripts I created is below.
start /min c:\scripts\xa_install_mode.bat
start /min c:\scripts\xa_execute_mode.bat
Now all the tasks are created I then created a new server job and called the job XA install Software. I added the first task that copies the files, then the second task that runs the xa_install_mode task. I added the third task which is the software package with install silent command and the last task which is the script that runs the xa_execute_mode.bat.
Then deploy by eitther quick delivery or my case new scheule and tagetted all our XA servers, after a while the process completed and the software installed without issues.
You will not have to do this if you installing a msi package as this will change the user mode for you as I have been recently informed for XenAppp 7+, not sure for xenapp 6.5 however.