Install Citrix StoreFront 3.0.1 from the Command Line

With this blog post I want to show you how to install Citrix StoreFront 3.0.1 with all it´s necessary prerequisites from the command line.

If you start the Citrix StoreFront installer via GUI the installer takes care of all the prerequisites on your system. You can see this behaviour in the screenshot:

In enterprise environments it is often not wanted to have installers taking care of prerequisites. I am a fan of total control over the environments I am taking care of. Every component needs to be installed in a controlled way.

Let´s see what we need to install before running the Citrix StoreFront installer to prevent the “uncontrolled” installation of additional Features and Roles.

Prerequisites

StoreFront needs a Web Server to be able to run. Some additional Sub-Features are needed as well.

• Web Server (IIS)
• Web Server
• Common HTTP Features
• Default Document
• HTTP Errors
• Static Content
• HTTP Redirection
• Health and Diagnostics
• HTTP Logging
• Security
• Request Filtering
• Basic Authentication
• Windows Authentication
• Application Development
• .NET Extensibility 4.5
• Application Initialization
• ASP.NET 4.5
• ISAPI Extensions
• ISAPI Filters
• Management Tools
• IIS Management Console
• IIS Management Scripts and Tools
• .NET Framework 4.5 Features
• .NET Framework 4.5
• ASP.NET 4.5
• WCF Services
• TCP Port Sharing

In order to install them via command line we open a PowerShell console and insert the following commands:

Add-windowsfeature Web-Server
Add-windowsfeature Web-Basic-Auth
Add-windowsfeature Web-Http-Redirect
Add-windowsfeature Web-Windows-Auth
Add-windowsfeature Web-App-Dev
Add-windowsfeature Web-Net-Ext45
Add-windowsfeature Web-AppInit
Add-windowsfeature Web-Asp-Net45
Add-windowsfeature Web-Mgmt-Tools
Add-windowsfeature Web-Scripting-Tools
Add-windowsfeature NET-Framework-45-Features

Now we have installed all the prerequisites and we can go on with the Citrix StoreFront installation. The parameters are as follows:

StoreFront Installation

CitrixStoreFront-x64.exe [-silent] [-INSTALLDIR installationlocation] [-WINDOWS_CLIENT filelocation\filename.exe] [-MAC_CLIENT filelocation\filename.dmg]

Installation via PowerShell works this way:

start-process -FilePath "YOURSOURCESSHARE\CitrixStoreFront-x64.exe" -ArgumentList "-silent" -wait 

The file locations of the Windows and Mac client belong IMHO to an additional customizing script for StoreFront. Therefore I won´t add them at this time.

Below you can find my installation script for the Citrix StoreFront server. It assumes you have a Windows Server 2012 R2 in place that is member of a domain and fully patched.

What it does (very simple):

• installs Web Server Features and Roles
• installs Citrix StoreFront 3.0.1
• Reboots the system

Before you use it insert your file share path to the variable $labsources.

# Script Variables

$labsources = "\\FILESERVER\SHARE"
Write-Host "Install: Citrix StoreFront 3.0.1" -ForegroundColor Green
# Part 01 - Prerequisites

Write-Host "Part 01 - Installing Prerequisites..." -ForegroundColor Green
# Install necessary Windows-Features for StoreFront 3.0.1
# Windows-Feature Web-Server

Write-Host "Installing Web-Server" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Server
# Windows-Feature Web-Basic-Auth

Write-Host "Installing Web-Basic-Auth" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Basic-Auth
# Windows-Feature Web-Http-Redirect

Write-Host "Installing Web-Http-Redirect" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Http-Redirect
# Windows-Feature Web-Windows-Auth

Write-Host "Installing Web-Windows-Auth" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Windows-Auth
# Windows-Feature Web-App-Dev

Write-Host "Installing Web-App-Dev" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-App-Dev
# Windows-Feature Web-Net-Ext45

Write-Host "Installing Web-Net-Ext45" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Net-Ext45
# Windows-Feature Web-AppInit

Write-Host "Installing Web-AppInit" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-AppInit
# Windows-Feature Web-Asp-Net45

Write-Host "Installing Web-Asp-Net45" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Asp-Net45
# Windows-Feature Web-Mgmt-Tools

Write-Host "Installing Web-Mgmt-Tools" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Mgmt-Tools
# Windows-Feature Web-Scripting-Tools

Write-Host "Installing Web-Scripting-Tools" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature Web-Scripting-Tools
# Windows-Feature NET-Framework-45-Features

Write-Host "Installing NET-Framework-45-Features" -ForegroundColor Green

Add-windowsfeature NET-Framework-45-Features
Write-Host "Finished Installing Prerequisites..." -ForegroundColor Green

Write-Host "Part 02 - Installing Software..." -ForegroundColor Green
# Install Citrix StoreFront 3.0.x

Write-Host "Installing StoreFront..." -ForegroundColor Green

start-process -FilePath "$labsources\XenDesktop_76\StoreFront_30\CitrixStoreFront-x64.exe" -ArgumentList "-silent" -wait 
# Reboot system

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Rebooting System..."

Restart-Computer -ComputerName $env:COMPUTERNAME

I hope this is useful for you.

All information without warranty.

Cheers,
Sinisa

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