If so, more info on TS can be found online here. What do I need to license Windows 7 or 8 on the XenDesktop? Did I miss something here? Did they tell you this?
XenDesktop is just the delivery tool from the server to the client. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.
Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. We are now looking away from this, and towards desktops, or Virtual Desktops. I'd just like to know what people's opinion is of XenDesktop. Best Answer.
Ghost Chili. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Popular Topics in Microsoft Licensing. The example in this guide uses a single virtual network for all Azure hosted XenDesktop 7 workloads. The scenario in this document leverages Azure shared storage as provided to the VM instances provisioned within Azure. In addition a Windows Server File Server has been configured within Azure as a shared file service for the storage of user profiles and data. Additional storage can be allocated within the environment as required for other workloads not documented in this guide.
Please confirm your storage requirements as part of your cost models. The provisioning of VM Instances within Azure is accomplished through manual creation of the instances through the Azure portal. Larger scale environments can be provisioned using Azure PowerShell scripting. The appendix of this guide provides some sample scripts used to provision various instances and workloads within Azure.
The portal UI examples in this guide are used for the sake of clarity, while it is generally recommended that a CSP leverage the Azure PowerShell scripts to ensure continuity when provisioning instances over time or at larger scale.
For the scenario in this guide, secure access to desktops and applications within Azure is provided through the WWCO on premise NetScaler Gateway when connecting to Azure hosted workloads. Some of the Roles and Services enabled on various servers include:. As stated earlier, a single virtual network is used for this scenario.
Below is a brief walk-through of how a Virtual Network would be created for this scenario using the Azure Portal.
Once the virtual network is in place the Azure AD Controllers must be created and joined to the on premise Forest. Creation of the Active Directory Servers can be accomplished through either manually provisioning the instances through the Azure Portal or by using the Azure PowerShell. In the Portal, click Virtual Machines and then click Create a virtual machine. Provide a unique administrator name for this instance. Once it is running you will want to disable the default administrator account to provide a higher level of security for this VM.
This same basic procedure can be followed to provision all of the VM instances required for the environment. As an AD controller you will next need to install the AD roles for your environment. When the provisioning of a VM is finished, you will see the instance in a running state. A screen shot of the complete set of VM instances provisioned in Azure for this sample design demonstrates the state of these VMs. When the networking and VM instances are in place, this means the standard XenDesktop installation procedures as outlined in the product documentation were followed.
There are no special considerations when implementing XenDesktop delivery controllers or worker servers within Azure as proposed in this sample design. Leveraging public cloud infrastructure such as Azure virtually eliminated any need for a new WWCO capital investment, allowing them to bring their new service online quickly in a globally available, state of the art cloud hosted infrastructure.
By leveraging Citrix XenDesktop 7 WWCO was capable of providing an industry leading desktop virtualization solution, ensuring the best user experience across any device, in as enabled by Citrix technologies like HDX. XenDesktop Modular Reference Architecture.
Citrix Project Accelerator. Microsoft Windows Azure Site. This section includes some basic information for using Azure PowerShell scripts to build a Hosted Desktop environment within Azure. They are currently a community contribution that is being folded into the product lifecycle and enhanced by MSFT and properly released.
Be sure to have your Azure management certificate properly stored in yourPersonal certificate store prior to connecting to your subscription. Here are some useful commands to use the cmdlets to drive machine and service creation.
These commands must be used to configure your Azure PowerShell session to communicate with your specific Azure subscription. The Import the Settings command speeds up as it lists all subscriptions you have access to. Visual Studio also uses this command. Note: by default a new service is created and the VM added, unless an existing Service name is defined.
As seen above, the command New-AzureDns created a configuration XML object that is applied to a virtual network or to a service when adding the first virtual machine.
This setting can only be added with the first virtual machine in the Service. These are some script samples that were created to enable working through scenarios with Azure Virtual Machines IaaS. As the Azure platform continues to evolve some cmdlets and parameters may change.
Please work through the Azure help and documentation to ensure your scripts provide you with the correct configurations. If you want to publish the application only to a specific user group add the users or security group and click OK.
Edit and select all the applications you want to publish and click Next. Optionally you can configure the Citrix Receiver if installed on the master disk with the correct StoreFront server. Fill in the Delivery Group name, Display name and Delivery Group description for users anything you like and click Finish. To create a second Delivery Group for example Windows 8.
In this case I will only publish the Windows 8. Select Desktops and click Next. Add a AD security group for this delivery group and click Next.
You are now ready to add the XenDesktop 7. Nice article. I was wondering when you select desktops and applications can you filter some users to not get the desktop and just get the apps? Thanks for the guide Robin, do you know if we need to have a virtual machine host if we just want to deploy apps? Is recommended to use a separate virtual machine host for the Publisched Apps, but you can also use the XenDesktop controller for it if you install the XenDesktop Agent on it.
I do have a question regarding Windows Server R2. This is true — I have never configured it, as all I set up was a session host, as per the instructions. I have an RDS Licensing Manager host, but without the Connection Broker I am not sure how to set the licensing parameters … or how that would work with Citrix rebuilding the machines on update.
Hi Tony, did you receive more detailed instructions on how to configure the RDS Licensing, as we have the exact same issue? Hi Robin. I am setting up a test environment for XenApp 7. The architecture beneath the farm seems pretty stable aside from some GPO tweaks but I am having trouble getting individual CMIDs for the servers as I add them to the farm. This obviously affects the licensing of Office and ultimately would affect the user experience. Installing and Configuring Citrix XenDesktop 7.
XenDesktop 7. NET Framework 3. NET Framework 4. NET 2. Create a Site Fill in a site name anything you like and click Next Enter the database server and a database name. Select the correct catalog, choose the number of machines you want to add to the delivery group and click Next Choose what you want to publish within this delivery group.
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