Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ido Miles Ben-Shachar

Ivan J Leichtling

Sriram Sampath

Robert Wilhelm Schmieder

Ersev Samim Erdogan

Amjad Hussain

Tristan William Scott

Deana Rae Fuller

Ashwin Palekar

Meher P Malakapalli

Kevin Scott London

Niraj Agarwala

Joy Chik

Wilhelm R Schmieder

John E Parsons, Jr

Leonard Alan Collins

Mahadeva K Alladi

Artem Belkine

Jonathan Austin Hoover

Kashif Mehmood

Travis Michael Howe

Dustin Lyle Green

Chee Heng Chew

Nelly L Porter

Lon-Chan Chu

Yikang Xu

Kevin Timothy Shields

John E Parsons

Jeffrey R Blum

Claus T Giloi

Sergey A Kuzin

Robert K Leitman

Elizabeth A Bastiaanse

Mahadev K Alladi

Ajay Kumar

Nadim Y Abdo

Ara Bernardi

Kathryn L Parker

Garrett R Vargas

David C Steere

Mahesh Sharad Lotlikar

Kenneth Lawrence Young

Sarah E Zuberec

Olga Ivanova

Greg A Keyser

John Ian Ferrell

Kamen Kamenov Moutafov

Munindra Nath Das

Mark H Enomoto

Rouslan Beletski

Tudor Baraboi

Alberto Henriquez

Raymond Matthew Reskusich

Scott A Skorupa

Subhashini Raghunathan

David T Dopson

Gautam Swaminathan

Robert-Wilhelm Schmieder

Andrew Eremenko

Sukvinder S Gill

Kevin Sott London

Christopher Benjamin Black

Lisen Ding

Ayesha M Mascarenhas

Naga Vankata Rajagopal Ramadugu

Ramasamy Pullappan

Ruiquing Zhu

Vadim Ponomarev

Jingyuan Li

Donghang Guo

Nihar Namjoshi

Ray Reskusich

Pui Loi Joy Chik

Mahesh Lotlikar

Olga B Ivanova

Mahadeva Kumar Alladi

David Steere

Meher Malakapalli

An endpoint broker to provide application launch endpoints from multiple data centers having different tenancy sets. Upon accessing a request for an application launch endpoint connection for a user, the broker selects a data center, from amongst multiple data centers that have different tenancy sets, that is to provide an endpoint in satisfaction of the request. The endpoint broker identifies an endpoint from the selected data center, and then associates the identified endpoint with the user. The user is then provided access to the identified endpoint using the association. Thus, a user is not restricted to having an endpoint from a single data center. If there are concerns with providing an endpoint from one data center, an endpoint may be provided from another data center in a manner that is transparent to the user.

Endpoint data centers of different tenancy sets

Embodiments are directed to provisioning private virtual machines in a public cloud and to managing private virtual machines hosted on a public cloud. In one scenario, a computer system receives authentication information for a private domain from an entity. The entity indicates that their private virtual machines are to be provisioned on a public cloud, where the entity's private domain is accessible using the authentication information. The computer system establishes a virtual network on the public cloud which is configured to host the entity's private virtual machines, where each virtual machine hosts remote applications. The computer system establishes an authenticated connection from the virtual network to the entity's private domain using the received authentication information and provides the entity's private virtual machines on the public cloud. The remote applications provided by the private virtual machines then have access to data stored within the entity's private domain using the authenticated connection.

Providing domain-joined remote applications in a cloud environment

Disclosed are techniques for providing a platform that allows a user to remotely establish a connection with a virtual machine operating on a server farm In a typical scenario, when a user requests for a connection to access third party plug-in applications, the application program interface may interact with the session broker process to identify sessions or suitable servers to which the user can be connected. The user may access the third party plug-in applications through the identified sessions or suitable servers.

Enabling virtual desktop connections to remote clients

Embodiments are directed to provisioning private virtual machines in a public cloud and to managing private virtual machines hosted on a public cloud. In one scenario, a virtual network is established at a public cloud environment based on a request received from a private domain, and an authenticated session is established between the virtual network and the private domain. A virtual machine is hosted within the virtual network. The virtual machine is configured to be accessible to a user authenticated to the virtual machine, and is configured to run an application using data received from the private domain. Private data is received from the private domain over the authenticated session, and the authenticated user is provided access to the application running at the virtual machine, including providing the authenticated user access to the private data.

Disclosed are techniques for determining the status of virtual machine sessions on a computing device for a user by reading from a memory location written to by a program executing within a virtual machine. The memory location is preferably a registry key that contains the status of a remote user session operating on a guest operating system operational on the virtual machine, the virtual machine executing in a virtual environment comprising a plurality of virtual machines operating on a computing device.

Session monitoring of virtual desktops in a virtual machine farm

Techniques for configuring a commodity server to host virtual hard disks are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtual hard disk file can be split into a plurality of differencing VHD files and one or more of the files can be downloaded to a virtualization host as it runs off the VHD files stored on the server. After the one or more VHD files are downloaded, the virtualization host can be configured to use the local copy instead of the copy on the commodity server. In addition to the foregoing, other techniques are described in the claims, the detailed description, and the figures.

Techniques for streaming virtual machines from a server to a host

Techniques are disclosed for efficient remote presentation session connectivity and routing. In an embodiment, the roles of a remote presentation session deployment involved in receiving a connection from a client and determining a virtual machine (VM) to serve the client's remote presentation session are consolidated on one or more servers of the deployment that host such VMs. When this consolidated role receives a connection set up communication from a client, it uses information local to it and its server to determine a VM to serve the remote presentation session. Where the deployment comprises a plurality of such servers, the consolidated role may communicate with an inter-server connection broker to determine a different server that will conduct the remote presentation session.

Techniques for efficient remote presentation session connectivity and routing

The adjustment of a number of application launch endpoint servers that may be used to service incoming connection requests. Application launch endpoints are entities, such as running code, that may be used to launch other applications. Examples of endpoints include virtual machines or sessions in a session management server. The system load associated with the incoming connection rate and number of users is monitored. In response, an add threshold and a perhaps a remove threshold is calculated. If the system load rises above the add threshold, application launch endpoint server(s) are added to the set of endpoints that can handle incoming connection requests. If the system load falls below the remove threshold, application launch endpoint server(s) are removed from to the set of endpoints. The add and remove thresholds may be calculated per tenant, and adjusted based on tenant behavior.

Automatic adjustment of application launch endpoints

The updating of virtual machines. A task broker schedules update tasks for multiple virtual machines on the host machine. As each update task is to be performed, if the virtual machine is not currently running, as might be the case for a personal virtual machine, the virtual machine is caused to begin running to allow the update task to be performed on the virtual machine. Also, a pooled virtual machine is updated by copying information from the old virtual hard drive to a location to allow the information to be preserved as the master image is updated. After the update is completed, the virtual machine is formed, associated with the new virtual hard drive, and copied back to the virtual machine.

Personal and pooled virtual machine update

Embodiments are directed to authenticating a user to a remote application provisioning service. In one scenario, a client computer system receives authentication credentials from a user at to authenticate the user to a remote application provisioning service that provides virtual machine-hosted remote applications. The client computer system sends the received authentication credentials to an authentication service, which is configured to generate an encrypted token based on the received authentication credentials. The client computer system then receives the generated encrypted token from the authentication service, stores the received encrypted token and the received authentication credentials in a data store, and sends the encrypted token to the remote application provisioning service. The encrypted token indicates to the remote application provisioning service that the user is a valid user.

User authentication in a cloud environment

Disclosed are techniques for providing a platform and application program interface (API) that leverages a terminal services session broker infrastructure to support third party plug-in applications. In a typical scenario, when a user requests for a connection to access third party plug-in applications, the application program interface may interact with the session broker process to identify sessions or suitable servers to which the user can be connected. The user may access the third party plug-in applications through the identified sessions or suitable servers.

Platform for enabling terminal services virtualization

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Ido Miles Ben-Shachar