Organization Best Practices

[Anon4343]

What organizational structures are you finding that works best for you?

I'm trying to use the same session host pool for multiple teams, but am having trouble deciding when to use a Workspace vs an Application Group. It looks like there are limitations where a Host Pool can only have one Workspace and an Application Pool can only be assigned to one Workspace.

Is it possible to set up something like the following? Is this even a good practice?

Example 1

Host Pool	Workspace	Application Group	Applications
Standard1	All Depts	Microsoft Office	Word, Excel
Standard1	Accounting	Payroll	Doleout
Standard1	Accounting	Accounts Payable	Quickbooks
Standard1	HR	Recruiting	LinkedIn Manager
GPU1	Graphic Design	Web Designers	Adobe InDesign

Because of the limitations stated above, I can only get the following. This requires an additional Host Pool.

Example 2

Host Pool	Workspace	Application Group	Applications
Standard1	Accounting	Payroll, Accounts Payable	Doleout, Word, Excel, Quickbooks
Standard2	HR	Recruiting	LinkedIn Manager, Word, Excel
GPU1	Graphic Design	Web Designers	Adobe InDesign, Word, Excel

To limit the host pools, I could instead do the following

Example 3

Host Pool	Workspace	Application Group	Applications
Standard1	Standard1	Accounting Payroll, Accounting Accounts Payable, HR Recruiting	Doleout, Word, Excel, Quickbooks, LinkedIn Manager
GPU1	GPU1	Graphic Design Web Designers	Adobe InDesign, Word, Excel

Do you see where I'm confused? I'm missing something obvious.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Anon4343 I think you would need to first decide what you want to limit - do you want to limit number of hostpools? Let's say you want only 1 hostpool. Then its easy - you just have multiple appgroups with the apps you have mentioned and publish it to various user groups. The app groups will all be registered to 1 workspace - Example 3.

Let's say you are not too bothered about #hostpools but want to limit users from different departments on the same host. Then Example 2 works.

Example 1 is not feasible since all appgroups in a hostpool have to be registered to the same workspace.

[#3]

Excellent! Thank you!