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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 demo.
- Discuss integration requirements with Citrix.
- Complete settings in the Citrix Cloud portal.
To sign up for a Citrix account and request a demo, contact your Citrix sales representative. When you’re ready to proceed, go to https://onboarding.cloud.com.
After you sign in, in the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service tile, click Request Demo. Provide the requested information. A Citrix representative will contact you to discuss your requirements, environment, and plans. Depending on our representative’s assessment, you’ll be authorized to participate in an administrator demo or a proof of concept trial.
While waiting for the demo, you can review the information linked 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 demo, 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 service’s Manage console. Before you can proceed with that workflow, set up your resource location (or finish setting it up) by adding Citrix Cloud Connectors.
If you currently subscribe to a different Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service
Your Citrix Cloud account allows you to subscribe to only one of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops services at a time (for example, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops OR Citrix Managed Desktops, but not both). If you currently subscribe to one of these services, and want to subscribe to this service, you can either:
- Subscribe to this service using a different Citrix Cloud account.
- Decommission the service you already have.
For guidance, see CTX239027.
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.