

Alex will see his subscription’s directory at the top right.Īsk your Azure AD admin to create an Azure AD account for you: Alex requests Pras, the Azure AD admin to create an Azure AD account for him. Identify the subscription’s directory: Alex logs in to the new Azure portal using his Microsoft account credentials and not an Azure AD account. Pras is the Azure account owner. Here’s what Alex needs to do. To meet this requirement, let’s take an example. The key requirement for the account is that it needs to be a member of the Azure AD associated with the subscription. Azure AD Account SetupĪn Azure AD account and an Azure subscription is required to create a host connection in Citrix Studio. If you need to provision machines into your Azure subscription, first you would need to successfully authenticate against the Azure AD tenant that the subscription is linked to. By “linked” it means the subscription trusts the authentication provided by that Azure AD tenant for resources contained within that subscription (like VMs, storage accounts, virtual networks etc.).Īzure Resource Manager uses Azure AD for authentication. If you are the administrator of an Azure AD tenant directory and that tenant contains about 30 or more accounts which are a combination of Microsoft accounts considered “Guests” and Azure AD accounts which are “Members”.Īzure subscriptions are linked to one Azure AD tenant. These are usually of the form AD is a massive multi-tenant directory system.

Microsoft accounts (also known as personal accounts).Īzure Active Directory accounts (Work or School accounts). There are two types of accounts you can login to access Microsoft services: Note: This feature was introduced “Cloud First” in the XenApp and XenDesktop service a few months ago.Īzure’s global footprint can be utilised to deploy virtual apps and desktops from any of the Azure data centers closest to where your users are, so they get the best interactivity and performance at lowest latency.Īs Citrix admin, you need to know how Azure accounts, subscriptions, Azure Resource Manager and Azure Active Directory are linked together. One of the features of XenApp 7.11 is the support for Azure Resource Manager, which allows you to extend your existing XenApp deployment to Microsoft Azure right from Citrix Studio.
