VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure: Identity Management & Networking for Success

VMware Horizon Cloud Service in Microsoft Azure provides a single platform for delivering virtualized Windows applications and shared desktop sessions from Windows Server instances using Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) running on Microsoft Azure. With Horizon Cloud, you can publish business-critical Windows applications along with software as a service (SaaS) applications, mobile applications, and desktops in a single digital workspace that can be easily accessed with single sign-on from any authenticated device. or operating system (OS)

Most companies already have an on-premise user identity using Active Directory (AD), and when delivering a service in the cloud, it is often important that the same identity and credentials are available for use in the cloud. Alternatively, if your company is exclusively cloud based and you want to take advantage of native cloud services, such as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), without the overhead of having to manually manage domain controllers ...

But how can you do this? What options are compatible with Horizon Cloud? Well, we help answer all your questions in our new white paper, "Network and Active Directory Considerations in Microsoft Azure for use with VMware Horizon Cloud Service."

 In the technical document, we first presented a key terminology in Microsoft Azure, and then presented six different configuration modes to achieve identity management with the Horizon Cloud service:

•      Link from site to site, using only local AD
•      No site-to-site link, AD in the provisioned Azure virtual machine
•      AD replication controllers in virtual machines provisioned by Azure (identity synchronized from the facilities)
•      No site-to-site link, using Azure AD is only synchronized with AD Domain Services
•      No site-to-site link, with local synchronization from AD to Azure AD through AD Connect
•      Site-to-site link, with local AD synchronization on Azure AD using AD Connect

Finally, we discuss some key considerations in the technical document related to the creation of networks, which will help ensure that the implementation (at any scale you need) is a success.