• Announcement made on 12th of August • End-of-Sales 1st of October 2016 • End of service on August 31st, 2017 •
Stronger collaboration with Citrix resulting in XenApp Express as their replacement product (‘Azure RemoteApp 2.0’)
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Azure RemoteApp Migration Options Self-Managed • RDS on IaaS • Citrix on IaaS Fully Managed • Citrix XenApp Express • PaaS Hosting Providers like ASPEX, MyCloudIT
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RDS 2016 on Azure IaaS
RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud
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Deployment of RDS 2012 consists of the following:
Single Server or VSAN
Azure MFA (optional)
User Profile Disk Share RD Connection Broker RD Web and Gaterway Server
Remote Worker
Internet
RD Web and Gaterway Server
SQL Server Hosting RD Database RD Session Host Servers
DMZ
RD Connection Broker
LAN
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2 x RD Gateway (load balanced) 2 x RD Web (load balanced) 2 x RD Connection Broker 2 x RD Licensing Server Multiple RD Session Hosts Single or Clustered File Server SQL Always On Cluster or SQL database mirroring
Total number of servers: 8 VMs
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RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud Improvements
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Use Azure SQL Database • No need of SQL Always On or SQL database Mirroring
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Support for Azure AD Domain Services • No need for Active Directory Domain Controller servers in Azure IaaS
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Support for Azure AD Application Proxy • Use Azure AD AppProxy for publishing RD Gateway and RD Web • No inboud ports needed to RD Web and RD Gateway • Make use of Azure AD functionality like User Filtering and Multi Factor Authentication
RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud
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Single Server or VSAN
Deployment of RDS 2016 consists of the following:
User Profile Disk Share
RD Connection Broker
RD Web and Gaterway Server
Remote Worker
Internet
Azure AD Application Proxy
Azure SQL database RD Session Host Servers
RD Web and Gaterway Server
Azure Cloud
RD Connection Broker
LAN
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2 x RD Gateway 2 x RD Web 2 x RD Connection Broker 2 x RD Licensing Server Multiple RD Session Hosts Single or Clustered File Server
Total number of servers: 6 VMs
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RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud – Deployment Options
• Manual Installations • Azure PowerShell • Azure ARM Templates
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Citrix XenApp Express
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Citrix + Microsoft Strategic Partnership
• First and only to offer optimized Skype for Business • • • •
experience Azure-first solutions and day 1 support for Windows Server 2016 NetScaler & XenMobile integrations with Microsoft EMS First and only to enable Win10 VDI in Azure public cloud Fastest way to deliver Windows apps from Azure
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Next Generation Service for Remoting Apps
Azure RemoteApp Fast
Simple
Azure Marketplace
XenApp Express The fastest, simplest way to access apps from the cloud
Citrix XenApp Scalable
Flexible
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New! Citrix XenApp Express service • •
XenApp Express
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Citrix Cloud is hosted on Azure New XenApp Express simplifies the delivery of Windows Apps from Azure
Customer brings Windows Server Images with Apps installed or chooses Citrix prepared images Customer Brings RDS CALs or buy RDS SALs
Customer brings Azure subscription Customer pays for IaaS consumption (App Workloads and Storage)
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Citrix XenApp Express Characteristics
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Product ‘sold’ through the Azure Marketplace Management of the service through Citrix Cloud interface Resources will be added to existing Customer Azure subscriptions Customer will pay for the used Azure IaaS services
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The future of Desktop Delivery
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Future of RDS
• Faster release cycle • Great improvement coming up (NDA) • They do listen
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