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The Azure platform is ever-changing and best practices will change along with it. At the time of this article was published, the best practices were followed for a generic environment - however the reader should perform their own due diligence on the current best practices for delivering Windows desktop applications via cloud hosted remote Apps, and also the best way to integrate into their organisation. |
Subscription
An Azure subscription needs to be created. Visit https://portal.azure.com/ and sign in with an existing Microsoft account, or create one.
Search for Subscriptions by starting to type subscriptions in the search bar - select Subscriptions when presented.
Azure Active Directory
The Azure Active Directory is an identity service. This is where you create users. When you create an Azure subscription, the directory is created for you. You may already have your users in this directory if you already have an Office 365 subscription - as this uses the same directory for managing users.
Login to your Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com/ and search for Active Directory and select it.
Press the Add button to add a subscription
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One the left hand pane, select Users
A list of users should appear.
If you have no users, create them.
Azure Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
Before we can create a virtual machine, an Azure Active Directory Domain Service needs to be created. The Windows Server machine we later will be provisioning requires a Domain to connect to before Remote Desktop Services can be deployed, and the Azure Active Directory Domain Service is what we use to establish a Domain. On-prem Domains can be used instead via VPN gateway, but that is beyond the scope of this document.
Azure Virtual Machine
An Azure virtual machine is used to deliver the Jiwa application via Remote Desktop Services. This is a Windows machine running Windows Server 2019 or later.
Typically, we use B4ms sized VM’s for up to 30 users. For more users either create additional VM’s and load balance, or just scale up to B8ms. If you only have 1 to 12 users, or it's a test machine, you might get away with a B2ms
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Jiwa typically runs at 512 MB per user; allow 2GB for the operating system.
Azure Active Directory
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SQL Azure
For Azure SQL we use Standard tier – 50 DTU’s is usually the minimum, but we have a couple of customers using less.
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