Installing Parallels RAS
This chapter describes how to install and activate Parallels RAS.
- Introduction
- Installing Parallels RAS
- Getting Started with Parallels RAS
- Farm and Sites
- RAS Connection Broker
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RAS Secure Gateway
- Overview
- Adding a RAS Secure Gateway
- Manually adding a RAS Secure Gateway
- Checking the RAS Secure Gateway status
- Configuring a RAS Secure Gateway
- Secure Gateway tunneling policies
- Configure logging
- Viewing Secure Gateway summary and metrics
- Using computer management tools
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RD Session Hosts
- RD Session Host types
- Add an RD Session Host
- Add a template-based RD Session Host
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Manage RD Session Hosts
- Manage host pools (RD Session Hosts)
- Manage templates (RD Session Hosts)
- Manage hosts (RD Session Hosts)
- Manage sessions (RD Session Host)
- Using scheduler (RD Session Hosts)
- Using scheduler (RDSH WIP)
- Planning for high availability
- Managing logons
- Using computer management tools
- Publishing from an RD Session Host
- Viewing published resources
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Supported providers
- Add a provider
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Manage VDI
- Manage providers (VDI)
- Manage host pools (VDI)
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Manage templates (VDI)
- Virtual desktop templates
- Multi-provider template distribution
- Creating a VM template
- How hosts are created from a template
- Manually adding a host
- Assigning a template to a host pool (VDI)
- Template maintenance
- Template status
- Managing multi-provider template distribution
- Managing template-based hosts
- Manage hosts (VDI)
- Manage sessions (VDI)
- Using scheduler (VDI)
- Using scheduler (VDI WIP)
- Configure logging
- Enabling high availability for VDI
- Site defaults (VDI)
- Using computer management tools
- Viewing Provider summary
- Remote PC pools
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Azure Virtual Desktop
- Introduction
- Prerequisites
- Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop
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Manage Azure Virtual Desktop
- Manage providers (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Manage workspaces (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Manage host pools (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Manage templates (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Manage hosts (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Manage sessions (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Using scheduler (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Using scheduler (Azure Virtual Desktop WIP)
- Site defaults (Azure Virtual Desktop)
- Using Parallels Client with Azure Virtual Desktop
- Verify the deployment
- Remote PCs
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Publishing
- Overview
- Publishing a desktop
- Publishing an application
- Publishing an application with MSIX app attach
- Publishing a web application
- Publishing a network folder
- Publishing a document
- General management tasks
- Manage published applications
- Manage published desktops
- Manage published documents
- Manage folders
- Site defaults (Publishing)
- Using filtering rules
- Configuring preferred routing
- Understanding session prelaunch
- Checking effective access
- Specifying client settings
- Quick keypad
- Session Management
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SSL Certificate Management
- Generating a self-signed certificate
- Generating a certificate signing request (CSR)
- Let's Encrypt certificates
- Importing a certificate
- Exporting a certificate
- Assigning a certificate to Secure Gateways and HALBs
- Auditing certificates
- Permissions to manage certificates
- Upgrading from an older RAS version
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Connection and Authentication Settings
- RAS Connection Broker connection settings
- Remote session settings
- Logon hours settings
- Restricting access by Parallels Client type and build number
- Multi-factor authentication
- Allowing users to change domain password
- Allowing users to discover RAS connections via email address
- Load Balancing and HALB
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RAS Multi-Tenant Architecture
- Overview
- Architecture description
- Deploying Tenant Broker and Tenants
- Managing Tenants
- Shared Gateways
- Third-party network load balancers
- Web Client and Themes
- Monitoring Tenants
- Tenant Broker compatibility and updates
- Upgrading from an older RAS version
- Configuring notifications
- Communication ports
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SAML SSO Authentication
- Introduction
- System requirements
- SAML basics
- SAML configuration
- Parallels Client configuration
- Parallels client policy configuration
- Test the SAML SSO deployment
- Error messages
- Parallels Web Client and User Portal
- Universal Printing
- Universal Scanning
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User Device Management and Client Policies
- Inviting users to connect to Parallels RAS
- Mass configuring user devices
- Enabling Help Desk support
- Monitoring devices
- Windows device groups
- Managing Windows devices
- Scheduling Windows devices & groups power cycles
- Client Policies
- Configuring remote file transfer
- Reporting
- Performance Monitor
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Common Management Tasks
- Recovery - add a root administrator
- Host name resolution
- Computer management tools
- Site information
- Site settings
- Using MSIX application packages
- Using template versions
- Settings audit
- Upgrading RAS agents
- Licensing
- Configure HTTP proxy settings
- System event notifications
- RAS session variables
- Maintenance and backup
- Problem reporting and troubleshooting
- Logging
- Suggest a feature
- Parallels RAS Management Portal
- Parallels RAS APIs
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Appendix
- Microsoft license requirements in Parallels RAS
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Port reference
- Parallels Client
- Web browsers
- HALB
- RAS Secure Gateway
- RAS Connection Broker
- RAS Console
- SSRS
- RAS Reporting
- RAS Web Administration Service (REST/Management Portal)
- RAS PowerShell
- RAS Provider Agent
- RAS Enrollment Server
- RAS RD Session Host Agent
- RAS Guest Agent
- RAS Remote PC Agent
- Tenant Broker
- Active Directory and Domain Services ports
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- RAS performance counters