Requirement is pretty simple:
1. Single SQL server hosting LOB database
2. Means for remote users to run the LOB desktop application which is served by the SQL Server.
Onsite real network - dead simple. In Azure, well!!...
- Have created a Cloud Service (which I guess in the real world is about the same as assigning a Static Public IP).
- Have created a simple, non-domain joined VNET. Just need a simple network for the VMs to communicate.
- Have created the SQL VM, set it up and all working locally.
- Have (accidentally) created a 2012 VM, installed the LOB app and got it working communicating with the SQL box. Then discovered this probably wouldn't be suitable to use for the RemoteApp template.
Started again using the Azure Remote Desktop Session Host image created within the VNET and added the LOB app to that. Checked all working before syspreping (via the supplied analyse tool) to create a suitable RemoteApp template, which one would naturally assume would reside in the VNET same as the VM it was created from.
Created the RemoteApp collection and after a few of hours of waiting for something to happen, finally got to publish the LOB app and try running it. Failed because the LOB app couldn't find the SQL Server VM.
Read up some more and found that I shouldn't have used Quick Create to create the RemoteApp collection. Instead I should have used the "with VNET" option. So started again down that road.
Now I'm stuck! I cannot progress any further with the collection config without "joining local domain". But haven't got a local domain and in any case what exactly is a "local domain"? This is in the Azure cloud and has nothing to do with an on-premise domain. That's something we might do later i.e. link them, but for now they're independent networks.
All I want to do is have the RD server that runs up to service the RemoteApp running in the same VNET i.e. same local subnet as my SQL VM server. Then it would work just fine, just like it did when I created the RemoteApp template image.
So how can I do that?
Adam@Regis IT
