RAS Web Portal: Prerequisites and Installation

The RAS Web Portal allows users to launch published applications and desktops from different farms.

Requirements

• Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.5
• ASP.NET role
• IIS 7.0 (Windows Server 2008) or IIS 7.5 (Windows Server 2008 R2)
• IIS 8.0 (Windows Server 2012) or IIS 8.5 (Windows Server 2012 R2)
• Parallels Remote Application Server

Supported Client Operating Systems and Browsers

Automatic Client Detection and Installation

Installation

We recommend that you do not install the RAS Web Portal on an Active Directory machine.

Run the RAS Web Portal setup program by double-clicking the RASWebPortal.msi or RASWebPortal-x64.msi file on the IIS machine that will be used as your access point to the published applications.

To install RAS Web Portal:

1. Run the RASWebPortal.msi or RASWebPortal-x64.msi file on the IIS machine that will be used as your access point to the published applications.
2. The RAS Web Portal Setup wizard opens.
3. Read the info on the Welcome page and click Next.
4. On the next page, read the End-User License Agreement. If agreed, select the I accept the terms in the License Agreement option and click Next.
5. On the RAS Web Server Port page, specify the port number. The RAS Secure Client Gateway is installed on port 80 by default and is configured to forward HTTP requests to the local host on port 81. Therefore, clients will still be able to access the RAS Web Portal on port 80. You can choose to install the RAS Web Service on any other port, and also use an existing port used by other web sites.
6. Click Next and then click Install.
7. Click Finish when the installation is completed.

Please note that IIS7 caches dynamic content as well as static content. To disable the caching for .aspx, .asmx and .ashx pages for the RAS Web Portal directory with an asp.net page that depends on the session state, perform the following on the RAS Web Server, 2XWebPortal, and 2XWebService.

Disabling Caching for folders consisting on .aspx, .asmx and .ashx

1. Run the Server Management console.
2. Navigate to Roles > Web Server (IIS) > Internet Information Services.
3. Repeat steps 4 to 12 for the following sites: RAS Web Server, 2XWebPortal, and 2XWebService.
4. Select the folder that contains the .aspx, .asmx and .ashx pages for which you need to disable caching.
5. In the Feature View, double-click Output Caching.
6. If there is a rule there already for the .aspx extension, double click it and continue from step 8. Otherwise right click and select Add.
7. Enter .aspx for the File name extension.
8. Check User-mode caching.
9. Select Prevent all caching.
10. Check Kernel-mode caching.
11. Select Prevent all caching.
12. Click OK.
13. Close the Server Management Console.