WINDOWS SERVER
2016
The demise of Azure RemoteApp
gives changes to RDS and Citrix
XenApp Express
Arjan Vroege & Danny van Dam
WINDOWS SERVER
2016
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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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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2016
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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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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2016
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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2016
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
WINDOWS SERVER
2016
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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2016RDS 2016 – Optimized for the Cloud –
Deployment Options
• Manual Installations
• Azure PowerShell
• Azure ARM Templates
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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
WINDOWS SERVER
2016Future of RDS
• Faster release cycle
• Great improvement coming up (NDA)
• They do listen