ULTEO OPEN VIRTUAL DESKTOP

V4.0.2
INSTALLING OVD ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER

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Contents
1

Prerequisites

1.1

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 Installing the Application Server

2.1

Session Manager Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 Registering the Server and Publishing Applications

4 Launching a Session

5 Internal System

5.1

Examining the Windows Agent Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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This documentation describes how to install an Ulteo OVD Application Server (ApS)
on a Microsoft Windows server system.
This documentation does not describe the OVD installation or conguration. For that,
please read the Installation documentation.

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Section 1
1.1

Prerequisites

System Requirements

Evaluations/POCs: Minimum prerequisites are 1 CPU core and 1GB RAM

Production environments: Ulteo recommends a minimum of 4GB RAM and 2
CPU cores
The supported operating systems are:
Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86/x64
You also have Terminal services (2003) or Remote Desktop services (2008R2
and 2012R2) installed and congured.

The Windows server may run in workgroup or be member of an AD domain but

must not run as a domain controller.

You need to disable the Network Level Authentication for the Remote Desktop settings.

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An Ulteo OVD Session Manager installed and running.

The Ulteo OVD Application Server setup. It can be download from this place at www.ulteo.com.

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Section 2

Installing the Application Server

Copy the setup setup on the Windows machine.

Execute it.

The only installation data required is the host/IP address of the Session Manager. (We
use sm.test.demo here as an example, but of course, you have to specify your own
domain name).
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Finish the installation. The Windows agent should be congured and running.

2.1

Session Manager Integration

Your Windows server should appear among the Unregistered servers.

If your server does not show up in the list, you might have a DNS conguration issue,
or the Windows agent has a bug. Please refer to Section 5.

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Section 3

Registering the Server and Publishing Applications

First, register your Windows server and switch it from "maintenance" to "production"
mode.
You should be able to list applications that are installed on your Windows server.

Now, you can fulll the Display name eld and also the Redirection name eld.
The next step is to add some Windows applications to an existing Application Group
so that users get authorized to run those your Windows applications. If you dont
have an existing Application Group please refer to the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop
Publication documentation rst.

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Section 4

Launching a Session

If you launch a session, you should be able to access to your Windows applications
from the application menu and from desktop icons if you enabled that option in the
administration console.

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Section 5
5.1

Internal System

Examining the Windows Agent Log

In a default Windows installation, the log le can be found at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Ulteo\ovd\main.log.
Its also possible to read some debug messages in the Windows Event Viewer (on
the Application section).

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