Manage application groups

Introduction

This article describes how to manage the application groups youcreated．

SeeApplicationsfor information about managing applications in application groups or delivery groups, including how to:

• Add or remove applications in an application group.
• Change application group associations.

Managing application groups requires the delegated administration permissions of the Delivery Group Administrator built-in role. For details, seeDelegated administration．

Enable or disable an application group

When an application group is enabled, it can deliver the applications that have been added to it. Disabling an application group disables each application in that group. However, if those applications are also associated with other enabled application groups, they can be delivered from those other groups. Similarly, if the application was explicitly added to delivery groups associated with the application group (in addition to being added to the application group), disabling the application group does not affect the applications in those delivery groups.

An application group is enabled when you create it. You cannot change this when you create the group.

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectEdit Application Groupin the action bar.
3. On theSettingspage, select or clear theEnable Application Groupcheck box.
4. SelectApplyto apply any changes you made and keep the window open, or selectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Enable or disable application session sharing between application groups

Session sharing between application groups is enabled when you create an application group. You cannot change this when you create the group. For more information, seeSession sharing with application groups．

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectEdit Application Groupin the action bar.
3. On theSettingspage, select or clear theEnable application session sharing between Application Groupscheck box.
4. SelectApplyto apply any changes you made and keep the window open, or selectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Disable application session sharing within an application group

Session sharing between applications in the same application group is enabled by default when you create an application group. If you disable application session sharing between application groups, session sharing between applications in the same application group remains enabled.

You can use the PowerShell SDK to configure application groups with application session sharing disabled between the applications they contain. In some circumstances this can be desirable. For example, you might want users to start non-seamless applications in full-size application windows on separate monitors.

When you disable application session sharing within an application group, each application in that group launches in a new application session. If a suitable disconnected session is available which is running the same application, it is reconnected. For example, if you launch Notepad, and there is a disconnected session with Notepad running, that session is reconnected instead of creating a new one. If multiple suitable disconnected sessions are available, one of the sessions is chosen to reconnect to, in a random but deterministic manner. If the situation reoccurs in the same circumstances, the same session is chosen, but the session is not necessarily predictable otherwise.

You can use the PowerShell SDK to either disable application session sharing for all applications in an existing application group, or to create an application group with application session sharing disabled.

PowerShell cmdlet examples

To disable session sharing, use the Broker PowerShell cmdlets New-BrokerApplicationGroup or Set-BrokerApplicationGroup with the parameter SessionSharingEnabled set to False and the parameter SingleAppPerSession set to True.

• For example, to create an application group with application session sharing disabled for all applications in the group:

  New-BrokerApplicationGroup AppGr1 -SessionSharingEnabled $False ‑SingleAppPerSession $True

• For example, to disable application session sharing between all applications in an existing application group:

  Set-BrokerApplicationGroup AppGR1 -SessionSharingEnabled $False ‑SingleAppPerSession $True

Considerations

• To enable theSingleAppPerSessionproperty you must set theSessionSharingEnabledproperty to False. The two properties must not be enabled at the same time. TheSessionSharingEnabledparameter refers to sharing sessions between application groups.
• Application session sharing works only for applications that are associated with application groups but are not associated with delivery groups. All applications that are associated directly with a delivery group share sessions by default.
• If an application is assigned to multiple application groups, make sure that the groups do not have conflicting settings. For example, one group with the option set to True, and another group’s option set to False results in unpredictable behavior.

Rename an application group

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectRename Application Groupin the action bar.
3. Specify the new unique name and then selectOK．

Add, remove, or change the priority of delivery group associations with an application group

An application group can be associated with delivery groups containing shared (not private) machines that can deliver applications.

You can also select delivery groups containing shared machines that deliver only desktops, if both of the following conditions are met:

• The delivery group contains shared machines and was created with a version earlier than 7.9.
• You have Edit Delivery Group permission.

The delivery group type is automatically converted to “desktops and applications” when theEdit Application Groupdialog is committed.

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectEdit Application Groupin the action bar.
3. Select theDelivery Groupspage.
4. To add delivery groups, selectAdd．选择复选框可用gro交付ups. (Incompatible delivery groups cannot be selected.) When you finish your selections, selectOK．
5. To remove delivery groups, select the check boxes of the groups you want to remove and then selectRemove．Confirm the deletion when prompted.
6. To change the priority of delivery groups, select the check box of the delivery group and then selectEdit Priority．Enter the priority (0 = highest) and then selectOK．
7. SelectApplyto apply any changes you made and keep the window open, or selectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Add, change, or remove a tag restriction in an application group

Adding, changing, and removing tag restrictions can have unanticipated effects on which machines are considered for application launch. Review the considerations and cautions inTags．

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectEdit Application Groupin the action bar.
3. Select theDelivery Groupspage.
4. To add a tag restriction, selectRestrict launches to machines with the tagand then select the tag from the menu.
5. To change or remove a tag restriction, either select a different tag from the menu or remove the tag restriction by clearingRestrict launches to machines with this tag．
6. SelectApplyto apply any changes you made and keep the window open, or selectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Add or remove users in an application group

For detailed information about users, seeCreate application groups．

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectEdit Application Groupin the action bar.
3. Select theUserspage. Indicate whether you want to allow all users in the associated delivery groups to use applications in the application group, or only specific users and groups. To add users, selectAdd, and then specify the users you want to add. To remove users, select one or more users and then selectRemove．
4. SelectApplyto apply any changes you made and keep the window open, or selectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Add, change, or remove an application icon in an application group

Perform the following steps to add, change, or remove an application icon.

1. In the navigation pane, selectApplications．

2. On theAll Applicationstab, select an application and then selectProperties．

   To make changes at an application group level, navigate to theApplication Groupstab, select an application in a group, and then selectProperties．

3. Select theDeliverypage and then selectChange．TheSelect Iconwindow appears.

4. In theSelect Iconwindow, do either of the following:

   • To add an icon, selectAddand then browse to the icon.
   • To remove an icon, select it and then selectRemove．
   • To change an icon, select it for the application.

   Important:

   • You cannot add an icon whose size is greater than 200 KB.
   • You can add only .icon files.
   • You cannot remove built-in icons.
   • You cannot remove an icon of an application that is in use.

5. SelectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Change scopes in an application group

You can change a scope only if you have created a scope (you cannot edit the All scope). For more information, seeDelegated administration．

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group in the middle pane and then selectEdit Application Groupin the action bar.
3. Select theScopespage. Select or clear the check box next to the scopes you want to change.
4. SelectApplyto apply any changes you made and keep the window open, or selectOKto apply changes and close the window.

Delete an application group

An application must be associated with at least one delivery group or application group. If deleting an application group will result in one or more applications no longer belonging to a group, you are warned that deleting that group will also delete those applications. You can then confirm or cancel the deletion.

Deleting an application does not delete it from its original source. However, if you want to make it available again, you must add it again.

1. FromManage > Full Configuration, selectApplicationsin the left pane, and then select theApplication Groupstab.
2. Select an application group and then selectDelete Groupin the action bar.
3. Confirm the deletion when prompted.

Organize application groups using folders

You can create folders to organize application groups for easy access.

Required roles

By default, you must have one of the following built-in roles to create and manage folders for application groups:

• Cloud Administrator
• Full Administrator
• Application Group Administrator

You can delegate management actions to other users by creating custom roles. The following table lists the permissions required for each action.

Action	Required permissions
Create application group folders	Create Application Group Folder
Delete application group folders	Remove Application Group Folder
Move application groups folders	移动应用ion Group Folder
Rename application group folders	Edit Application Group Folder
Move application groups to folders	Edit Application Group Folder, Edit Application Group Properties

For more information, seeCreate and manage roles．

Create and manage folders

You can use the Actions bar or the right-click menu to create and manage application group folders. In addition, you can drag an application group or a folder to a desired location in the folder tree.

Good to know:

• You can nest folders up to five levels (excluding the default root folder).
• A folder can contain application groups and subfolders. You can delete a folder only if it and its subfolders don’t contain application groups.
• All resources in Full Configuration (such as machine catalogs, delivery groups, applications, and application groups) share a folder tree in the back-end. To avoid name conflicts with other resource folders when renaming or moving folders, we recommend you give different names to first-level folders in different folder trees.