Parallels DaaS: User experience

this video is part of a parall tagb series in this video we cover the use experience of parallels Das to log on to parallels Das as a user go to cloud. parallel. comom provide your username matching your Microsoft Andro ID and click next select your account and click next provide your password and click sign in now process any multifactor authenication request this step could be different based on your organization security policy you're now logged on to parallels Dash and the all app section will automatically open here you can see applications and desktops you have access to what you see here depends on what applications and desktops your organization's administrator has published from here you can easily select your favorite applications and desktops by using the start icon in this case we select six applications and a desktop as our favorites these resources are easily accessible from within within the favorites tab use the search field to search for specific resources the search results contain items from both favorites as well as the app section as a user you can configure your own preferences for parallels DS click on a profile icon in the top right corner and select settings from here you can change settings related to local resources like clipboard audio links and printers click save to save your settings the input tab allows to change pen touch and keyboard related settings to open a publish desktop click on the icon either from the all apps or from the favorite section you now have access to the desktop and all installed applications once the session is active the sidebar control panel appears the sidebar offers quick and easy access for users to exchange files between a local remote session perform clipboard operations and view session Telemetry information the session information section contains detailed information and Telemetry about your current session note that you can enable clip or direction to and from the virtual desktop the remote clipboard section contains the curent status of your clipboard the remote key section allow you to send key combinations for example you can simulate the Windows key or you can simulate the control alt delete combination to upload files to your desktop click on the upload icon and the file explorer of the local client will appear select the file you want to upload and click open another file explorer dialogue appears this time from the remote desktop select where you want to store the file and click save the file is now uploaded to your virtual desktop in a similar way you can also download files to the local client click the download icon and select the file you want to download we will first rename the file for demo purposes to see the difference the file is now downloaded to the local client and visible in the download history of the local browser you can also run the desktop in full screen mode simply click the full screen icon and click change to have the resolution be updated to the new size to demonstrate clipboard redirection we open notepad we take the session out of full screen to have access to the URL bar of the local client note that we can copy and paste from the local client towards remote to demonstrate printer direction we open wordpad and select file print a printer called 2x Universal printer is shown here select it and click print a local printer dialogue is now presented from here you have access to any locally available printer to demonstrate audio redirection we open a browser in the remote session and browse to a YouTube video note that the audio is redirected back to the local device to demonstrate audio input redirection we first confirm the audio input is configured and set to remote audio we open audacity as an application when playing audio close to the microphone of the local device audacity inside the remote session is able to record the audio besides running a full desktop you can also run published applications in this case we open a few sample applications they all run from within the local browser in a similar way as before you can also use search to easily launch applications the same telemetric data clipboard access and options to upload and download files are also available for published applications this concludes the video covering use experience for parallels D for more content subscribe to our Channel and browse to the parallel Tech bite series