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Mani000
Former Employee
Jun 17, 2020

Running application on Client

I have one silly question to ask! Can I have a setup wherein I install an application on a desktop, having a client OS (which is a high configuration machine) and there are other clients (laptops) which are accessing that application on the desktop? Can that config be called server-client arch? Can I then migrate that desktop machine on to Azure?

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  • Scott_Gray's avatar
    Scott_Gray
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 04, 2020

    Mani000When you say "install an application on a desktop" are you, for the sake of example refering to applications like Word or Excel that are installed on the desktop itself? It this is what you are refering to then it sounds like you are after application presentation software, for example:

     

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/virtual-desktop/

     

    This will allow you to present the "Desktop" application as though it were installed locally on the machine, but infact is running on a server somewhere else.

     

    There is a lot of infromation on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/ that may help migrate your physical OS to the cloud, or it may be better to spin up a new VM instance with clean OS and start over.

     

    In terms of presenting the application from your exisitng desktop, RemoteApp may be the way to go.

     

     

     

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