Installing Virtual Desktop Agent
In this section, we will discover how to install Virtual Desktop Agent on the machines that we want to make available to users in a XenDesktop environment.
Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) is the software that enables a machine to connect to a XenDesktop. VDA can be installed on a desktop or a server operating system.
When you install VDA on a server machine, you can deliver not only a shared hosted desktop, but also applications.
You can deploy VDA through the following ways:
- The graphical user interface
- The command line
- Software management systems
- Active Directory scripts
We will install VDA by using the graphical user interface in a Windows 8 virtual machine called XD-Win8.
Later, we will also learn how to use command line ...
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