Just a quick post, when moving from XenApp 5 to 6 the recreation of the farm can take some time, lots of new options, lots of new considerations. We have a large number of farm administrators internally and recreating that list / assigning permissions was something I avoided as long as I could due to the monotony of the task in question.
Fortunately, Powershell stepped in and made my life extremely easy, below is a quick list of tasks you need to do to quickly export and import farm administrators:
On the source server, ensure to install the powershell cmdlets for XenApp.
Run the following command and export to a shared directory:
get-xaadministrator | Export-Clixml servershareadmins.xml
Now on the target XenApp 6 server, run the following command:
import-clixml 'servershareadmins.xml' | new-xaadministrator import-clixml 'servershareadmins.xml' | set-xaadministrator
And that’s it!
Well actually, its not, some permissions and values have changed from 5 to 6 so you still need to review the permissions (around applications and servers) , but the pre-creation of administrative accounts and any translated permissions will be immediately set.