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The demise of Azure RemoteApp

gives changes to RDS and Citrix

XenApp Express

Arjan Vroege & Danny van Dam

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Arjan Vroege &

Danny van Dam

Consultant Consultant

@arjanvroege @dnyvandam

www.vroege.biz www.dannyvandam.net

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2016 Agenda

• What’s new to RDS 2016

• Azure N-Series (including Demo)

• RDS 2016 vs Citrix 7.11

• Azure RemoteApp Retirement & Migration

• RDS 2016 on Azure (including Demo)

• Citrix XenApp Express (including Video)

• Q & A

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What’s new in RDS 2016

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Azure N-Series

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2016ANNOUNCEMENT:

More details on this blog:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-n-series-general-availability-on-december-1/

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RDS 2016 vs Citrix 7.11

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RDS 2016 XenDesktop 7.11

App Layering 3rd Party (Unidesk) AppDisks

Build in imaging SCVMM/SCCM or 3rd Party tools PVS/MCS

NVIDIA Grid GPU

Virtualization1-on-1 pass through

Full NVIDA GRID Support -

XenServer

Manageability Server Manager, 3rd Party toolsDirector, Studio, Management

consoles

App-V integrationFull App-V back-end required or

3rd party toolsNo App-V back-end required

Workspace Environment

Manager3rd Party (RES WM/AppSense)

Workspace Environment Manager

(Norskale)

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RemoteApp Deprecated

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2016Azure RemoteApp Retirement Details

• 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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2016Azure 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

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RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud

Deployment of RDS 2012 consists of the following:

• 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

LAN

Internet

Azure MFA

(optional)

DMZ

RD Web and

Gaterway

Server

RD Web and

Gaterway

Server

RD Session Host

Servers

RD Connection

Broker

RD Connection

Broker

SQL Server Hosting

RD Database

User Profile Disk

Share

Single Server

or VSAN

Remote

Worker

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RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud -Improvements

• Use Azure SQL Database • No need of SQL Always On or SQL database Mirroring

• Support for Azure AD Domain Services• No need for Active Directory Domain Controller servers in Azure

IaaS

• 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

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RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud

Deployment of RDS 2016 consists of the following:

• 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

LAN

Internet

RD Web and

Gaterway

Server

RD Web and

Gaterway

Server

RD Session Host

Servers

RD Connection

Broker

RD Connection

Broker

User Profile Disk

Share

Single Server

or VSAN

Remote

Worker Azure SQL

database

Azure AD

Application Proxy

Azure Cloud

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Deployment Options

• Manual Installations

• Azure PowerShell

• Azure ARM Templates

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Citrix XenApp Express

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2016Citrix + 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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2016Next Generation Service for Remoting Apps

Fast Simple

Azure RemoteApp Citrix XenApp

XenApp Express

Azure

Marketplace

The fastest, simplest way to

access apps from the cloud

FlexibleScalable

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2016New! Citrix XenApp Express service

XenApp Express

• 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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2016Citrix XenApp Express Characteristics

• 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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2016Future of RDS

• Faster release cycle

• Great improvement coming up (NDA)

• They do listen

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Volgende sessie 11:30 – 12:30 uur

Winning hearts and mindsof your users with anoptimized VDI environment

Pim van de Vis