Desktop Director 2.1Shane BroomhallAPAC Readiness

Overview of Desktop Director

• Is a web-based administration tool

• Was introduced with XenDesktop 5 (Rhone)

• Designed for daily operations such as monitoring, performing routine tasks and user troubleshooting

• Displays session details

• Role based access control

What is Desktop Director?

Site Management View

Information displayed in Desktop Director 2.0

Desktop Group

User Troubleshooting View

Machine Details

DashboardMachine

ListUser

Details

XD SessionDetails

XA SessionDetails

Changes in Desktop Director 2.1

MachineDetails

• Reset Personal vDisk task

• Personal vDisk status

Available in:

• Machine Details page

• User Details page

• XenDesktop Session Details page

Support for Personal vDisk

• Personal vDisk state

• Personal vDisk profile size

• Personal vDisk profile used

• Personal vDisk app size

• Personal vDisk app used

Personal vDisk statusRunning or an error - Error details will be shown on a mouseover of the error icon

Reflects the amount of disk space used and turns to red when it goes over 75%(default)

HDX panel changes

2.0 2.1

Installation and Upgrade

1. Install Desktop Director 2.1 using the XenDesktop 5.6/stand-alone installer

2. Assign XenDesktop administrative rights through Desktop Studio for the Desktop Director users

3. Check the WinRM/Remote Assistance configuration and permissions for VDA(see CTX127301, CTX125243 and eDocs)

4. Install Flash Player if it is not present on the machine where the browser to access Desktop Director is running

5. Log on to Desktop Director with delegated administrator’s credentials

http://<DesktopDirector server IP>/DesktopDirector/

Installation and configuration

• Use XenDesktop 5.6 iso or Desktop Director 2.1 iso and just follow the instructions

• The upgrade retains the existing configuration settings

Upgrade

Component Version(s)

XenDesktop XenDesktop 5 SP1/5.5/5.6 (*1) (*2)

XenApp XenApp 6.5

Web browser Internet Explorer 8/9

Firefox 7 for Windows/Mac

Flash Flash 10

Requirements

(*1) Personal vDisk is not supported for XenDesktop 5 SP1 or XenDesktop 5.5(*2) The HDX information display is not supported for XenDesktop 5 SP1

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