Delivering applications with

Azure RemoteApp

Rasmus Hald [Microsoft] @RasmusHaldDK

• Deliver applications to multiple mobile platforms (BYOD)

• Provide access to legacy applications

• Respond to the dynamic business requirements for IT:

• Seasonal/temporary workers

• Vendors

• New employees (mergers and acquisitions)

• Reduce infrastructure costs (move CAPEX to OPEX)

• Protect corporate resources and ensure compliance

Today’s challenges

On-premises In cloud

Remote Desktop Session

Host deployed on cloud

infrastructure services

Customizable with minimum

capital expenditure

RDS

on IaaS

Session-based desktops

and RemoteApp

Cost-effective, easy to

manage

Session-based

computing

Access to pooled or personal

Virtual Desktops running

Windows Client OS

High performance, app

compatibility

Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure

User

Windows Server session-

based applications delivered

from the Azure Cloud

Turnkey solution, scale

without large CAPEX

Azure

RemoteApp

Azure RemoteApp

combines Windows

application experience

and powerful RDS

capabilities

on Azure’s reliable

platform and helps IT

to bring, scale, agility

and global access to

corporate applications.

Centralize and

protect corporate

resources on Azure’s

reliable platform

Protect

Provide access to

corporate applications

from anywhere, on any

device

Enable

Scale up or down to meet

dynamic business needs

without large capital expense

or management complexity

Scale

Remote applications

delivered from the

reliable Azure platform

Delivered via

Microsoft Remote

Desktop Protocol and

RemoteFX

Scale without large

capital expense

Access from Windows,

iOS, Mac OS X, and

Android devices

Flexible hybrid

or cloud deployment

options

Demo User experience

RemoteApp

cloud deployment

• Image available with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013

preinstalled

• Rapid provisioning: apps quickly available

• Automatic maintenance of platform image: OS and apps

always up-to-date, Microsoft antimalware

• User logon with Microsoft account or corporate credentials

federated with Azure Active Directory

RemoteApp

hybrid deployment

• Fully customizable apps, OS, and settings

• IT can manage template images and apply

updates via Azure Portal

• Full access to on-premises network

• User logon with corporate credentials federated

with Azure Active Directory

Windows Server 2012 R2 session virtualization

Dynamic scalability

Global presence

High fidelity with RDP

Secure, WAN-ready connectivity

Clients for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android

RemoteApp Service

Published apps

Microsoft account

Identity options

RDP

Elastic runtime

…

DirSync/Federation (optional)

Persistent user data (50GB per user)

Custom template image or prebuilt with Office

On-premises network

Windows Server Active Directory

Azure Active Directory

Authentication

User

• Core technology: Azure Virtual Networking with Site-to-Site VPN

• RemoteApp Virtual Networks built on Azure to seamlessly access on-premises resources

• Core technology: Azure Active Directory with DirSync

• RemoteApp leverages Azure AD to control user access and enable Single Sign-On

• Core technology: Windows Server Active Directory on-premises

• RemoteApp hybrid session hosts are domain-joined and conform to on-premises policies

RemoteApp Service

Identity options

Authentication

RDP

Domain Joined

On-premises network

Subject to IT policy via GP, System Center, or other enterprise management tools

DirSync

User

Persistent user data (50GB per user)

Elastic runtime

…

Azure VPN

Custom template image Maintained via Azure Portal

Corporate Apps

Corporate apps

Azure Active Directory

Demo Publishing apps

RemoteApp

cloud deployment

• Image with Office 2013 ProPlus pre-installed available

• Access to cloud-connected data and services

• Users sign on with Microsoft Account or with federated identity

with Azure AD

• Rapid provisioning, automatic maintenance, turn-key

RemoteApp

hybrid deployment

• Ideal for corporate LOB apps

• Hybrid Networking provides secure access to

on-premises resources

• Federated identity with Azure AD

• Domain-joined and conforms to on-premises IT policy

• Image-based software update via Azure Portal

High fidelity with RDP

Secure, WAN-ready connectivity

Clients for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android

Windows Server 2012 R2 session virtualization

Dynamic scalability

Global presence

Cloud deployment (platform image)

Latest OS and

application

updates rolled

out on an

ongoing basis

Hybrid deployment

Ongoing updates:

Update running

RDSH VMs with

GP, WSUS, SC, and

other management

tools from on-

premises

Image-based updates:

Upload a new

template image and

apply it to a

RemoteApp service

instance

Updates rolled out

automatically

Automatically

maintained

Updates under

IT control

Feature RemoteApp

Window Server version Windows Server 2012 R2

Office Existing Office 365 ProPlus customer are allowed to use one of your installs at no extra cost.

Bring your own applications

Device/OS support

Windows 8.x, Windows 7, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8.1, iOS, Android, Mac OS X, ; Windows

Embedded Standard 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows Embedded POSReady7, Windows

Embedded Thin PC, Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry.

Microsoft account support

Active Directory, virtual network (optional)

Storage (per user) 50 GB

Regions Central US, East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe,

East Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan East, Japan West, Brazil South

Priced per user/per month

No additional Windows

Server or RDS licenses

needed

Compute, Ingress\Egress

and storage costs

included

• Differentiated based on performance

• Plan types for users can be changed any point in time

Two tiers: Basic and Standard

Designed for light weight applications

(e.g. data entry, expense reporting)

Basic

Designed for knowledge workers or

information workers to use

Productivity applications such as

Microsoft Office

Standard

Basic Standard

Target user Task worker Information worker

Application types Lightweight LOB / data entry

applications Productivity applications

Starting price (user/month) $10 $15

Hours included in starting price

(month) 40 40

Hourly overage rate (Hour) $0.175 $0.20

Cap price (user/month)* $17 $23

Office Existing Office 365 ProPlus customers can use one of their installs

with Azure RemoteApp at no extra cost.

• Prices listed above are for each user accessing one App Collection. • Rounded off to nearest integer; might vary depending on the currency.

What is an App

Collection?

RemoteApp template

image that contains the

applications or programs

shared by a set of users.

Hours of use

Low starting price at $10 per user per month, pay no more than $17

Pri

ce (

$)

Hourly overage charge from 40 hours to 80 hours.

80

$0.175/hour

Above 80 hours, pay no more than $17

$17

Starting price includes

40 hours/month

40 0

$10

Basic

$10

$17

$10 + (80hrs-40hrs) * $0.175 $10 + (80hrs-40hrs) * $0.175

$17

Hours of use

Pri

ce (

$)

Hourly overage charge from 40 hours to 80 hours.

80

$0.20/hour $23

Starting price includes

40 hours/month

40 0

$15

Standard

$15

$23

$15 + (80hrs-40hrs) * $0.20

$15 + ((80hrs-40hrs) * 0.20 = Fixed Capped Price

Above 80 hours, pay no more than $23

Low starting price at $15 per user per month, pay no more than $23

$23

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