Simplify Deployments By Using Connector Appliances To Connect Ad To Citrix Cloud
Citrix News, Wednesday, September 13,2023
Historically, one of the key functionalities provided by Citrix Cloud Connectors is to connect on-premises Active Directory (AD) infrastructure to the Citrix Cloud console without the need for additional AD trusts.
This might be done so that the AD can be used as an Identity Provider (IdP) for adding VDAs to Machine Catalogs in DaaS, for creating machine identities when using Citrix Machine Creation Service (MCS), as part of a WEM solution, when using Kerberos to authenticate with a WebApp through SPA, or in numerous other scenarios.
Some of these use cases rely on other components in the Cloud Connector, such as the Broker Service for registering VDAs or MCS hypervisor plugins for provisioning VDAs to on-prem hypervisors. Even so, we are seeing many situations in which Citrix customers can make use of the advantages of the Connector Appliance in their environments, instead of leveraging the Cloud Connector.