Sparx EA - Azure remote app deployment

[shas]

Hello SMEs,

Could you please guide me on if Sparx EA is supported to be run from Azure RemoteApp hosts? I am intending to use Azure SQL DB as repository and preferably Sparx Cloud service as well to keep things simple.

Really Appreciate your help

Shas

[Helmut Ortmann]

Hi Shas,

as far as I remember in this forum is at least one thread regarding Azure. Search for it.

Try e.g. (at first glance it looks like a solution):
http://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,24068.msg196089.html#msg196089

Helmut

[shas]

Thanks Helmut.

The post you mentioned is regarding deploying repository to Azure SQL DB. I have been successfully able to configure and use that. My question was for installing the EA client on Azure RemoteApp which allows users to use Remote Desktop Service to the cloud EA instances and use it. The user doesn't need to have any local installation of EA on their machines in such case. I couldn't find any post regarding the same - hence checking if anyone tried it.

Shas

[Jochen Wendebaum]

I am trying to get EA17 set up as a Remote App on an Azure cloud VM.

I can successfully start the application, but registry settings (like license server info) are always lost.
Has anyone managed to set up that thing so that the settings do not have to be re-entered?

Putting the registry settings into
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Sparx Systems]
instead of
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sparx Systems]
or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sparx Systems]
did not help.

[Jochen Wendebaum]

Im my search I found the file C:\Program Files\Sparx Systems\EA\Startup\eastartup.cfg
which says:

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#This is the EA kickstart configuration file that loads early in the EA startup cycle
#Supported input properties are indicated below

#APPDATA2 - a second location to search for ModelPatterns, Workspace Layouts, User Settings
#APPDATA2=C:\eaalt

#USERSETTINGS - overrides use of the user registry for personal settings and other user configurable options
#USERSETTINGS=C:\eaalt\CurrentUser.db

# Enable these Addins.
#ADDIN=Addin1_name:Addin1_class.Main
#ADDIN=Addin2_name:Addin2_class.Main
It sounds that this might be useful for my purposes.
I don't find any documentation about this. Does anybody know more?

[Geert Bellekens]

Hi Jochen,

Looks like you have a problem with your user profile being wiped every time.
We had that issue once and it turned out to be a problematic configuration in fslogix.

We still have that when we open a published app, and after that login to a Desktop.
That is not specific to EA. You also loose everything in my documents, windows settings, etc...

Geert

[Jochen Wendebaum]

Thanks for the info.

Still I wonder if this can be solved with the usage of eastartup.cfg, if I only had more info about that.

[Jochen Wendebaum]

I got this guide from Sparx. It shows how to install EA for All Users.

https://sparxsystems.com/downloads/whitepapers/EA_Deployment.pdf

Note: By default Enterprise Architect will install for the Current User. To install for
All Users specify:
msiexec /i c:\easetupfull.msi /q allusers=2

Still, it does not work in my case an I am really curious about how to use the eastartup.cfg as seems to be able to solve the problem.

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#This is the EA kickstart configuration file that loads early in the EA startup cycle
#Supported input properties are indicated below

#APPDATA2 - a second location to search for ModelPatterns, Workspace Layouts, User Settings
#APPDATA2=C:\eaalt

#USERSETTINGS - overrides use of the user registry for personal settings and other user configurable options
USERSETTINGS=C:\CurrentUser.db

# Enable these Addins.
#ADDIN=Addin1_name:Addin1_class.Main
#ADDIN=Addin2_name:Addin2_class.Main

Haven't got any response from Sparx yet about it.