Citrix to RDS Migration - How to update RDS Apps

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Nikumba

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We are currently looking to move from Citrix to RDS due to licence costs.

Currently we have a gold build, and two sets of servers set A and set B, one set is active at a time.

When we need to do an update to an app we will update the gold build then push it out over the non-active set of servers then overnight we will flip from A to B or B to A.

This allows us to back out any changes quickly if users have issues.

However I am not sure how you do this for RDS farm?

Anyone done this before and have some advice?

The RDS farm will be in VMWare if that makes any difference.

Thanks

Kimbie
 
If you wanted to retain the server pools, I guess you could maybe do something similar with server collections and disabling logons?
 
RDS is more manual than Citrix, but by no means inferior. I prefer it to the power of ten over Citrix (Horizon Cloud or View, WVD, pure RDS, Citrix- in that order ).

I'd have a gold image in vsphere. Update the apps on that as necessary, snapshot it, and then deploy X number of RDS hosts from that. Simply create a new collection, add the hosts to that, and flip the user entitlement at leisure.

As for the old collection, once you're happy that the new one is fine... Delete it.

That saves on manually having to update apps on multiple RDS hosts.

(Keep the gold image powered off so the snapshots don't grown over time)
 
We run a 20 node RDS farm and wouldn't be without App-V. It's been our absolute saviour, in both deploying and updating apps for both RDS and Windows 10. Together with FSLogix rules, it can seriously cut down admin overhead.

I honestly can't imagine our thin and thick desktops without those two technologies.

and before someone chimes in about MSIX

https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=2778
 
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