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When you evaluate or purchase the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service, the Citrix Service Operations team provides ongoing onboarding help. That team also communicates with you to ensure that the core Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service is running and configured correctly.
The onboarding steps are:
- Sign up for a Citrix account and request a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service trial.
- Discuss integration requirements with Citrix.
- Complete settings in the Citrix Cloud portal.
To sign up for a Citrix account and request a trial, contact your Citrix Sales Representative. When you’re ready to proceed, go to https://onboarding.cloud.com.
After you log on, in the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service tile, click Request Trial. The text changes to Trial Requested. You will receive an email when your trial is available.
While waiting for the trial, you can review the information referenced in Where to go next. Although Citrix hosts and delivers your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service solution, you manage the machines that deliver applications and desktops, plus the applications and users. You can spend this time setting up the infrastructure to your corporate services, such as Active Directory.
When you are authorized to access the trial, the text on the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service tile changes to Manage.
When you click Manage, a 1-2-3 configuration workflow opens in the Studio management console. However, before you can proceed with that workflow, set up your resource location (or finish setting it up) by adding Citrix Cloud Connectors.
Where to go next
- If you haven’t already set up your hypervisor or cloud service, or Active Directory, see Set up a resource location.
- If your host environment and Active Directory are already set up, see Create a connection.
- To review the entire configuration process, see Install and configure.