In this article I describe how to publish a remoteapp using Microsoft Azure. First login to the Azure Portal using your (admin) creds and create a RemoteApp :
After you select the +NEW button use the following steps to create a RemoteApp:
Give a name, the region you wish the data to be stored and the plan details. Notice that by default there are 3 images to choose from. In this example who use the default available. In a later post I shall describe how to use your own images. After you click Create RemoteApp Collection, your RemoteApp Collection will be created. This can take a couple of minutes. When this task is finished you see something like this :
The name, status, address and other information is displayed. Double-click this bar.
You notice this screen:
You have several options : Dashboard (this page), User Access (control which users have access), Publishing (choose which applications to publish), Sessions (see the current sessions), Scale (scale your RemoteApp)
Click publish remoteapp programs!
Now you can choose from a list of programs installed in the image you choose before. Select any of them. You see the selected program being published. You can go to the publishing menu and you see al the Apps which are published as a RemoteApp.
It’s also an option to manually enter programs when you now the exact path or any one which is listed in the start menu. Ok! We are ready to go. Let’s download the Azure RemoteApp client here. After you have installed the client, let’s start the client! Login as the user you gave access to earlier. (users) and you see something like this :
Let’s start Visio for example :
The first time to application is set up (profile etc) and so it takes a bit langer to start the application.
Et voila Visio is started! You don’t see the difference between Visio installed locally or as a RemoteApp :
