Virtual Applications

Toronto Metropolitan University's Virtual Applications (VApps) provide secure access to licensed software applications from anywhere with an Internet connection. By using VApps, you can use applications without having to install them on your computer. The service runs on Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) infrastructure.

Required software for accessing the VApps environment

You will need two applications in place prior to accessing VApps, including:

• Microsoft multi-factor authentication (MFA); and the
• Windows App (external link) 

Follow documentation for ‘Choose what you want to connect to: Azure Virtual Desktop’

How to Connect using a Web Browser

You can login from VApps here

Virtual Applications (VApps) file storage

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) offers 500mb of storage on the Personal Storage (V:) drive.  It is recommended to work from your persistent V: drive. 

Note: Please do not save files anywhere else on the servers. That includes Desktop, My Documents. Our servers hosting the applications are wiped daily which will result in loss of files.

Applications available with VApps

• MATLAB
• NVivo
• R for Windows (R-Project)
• Solidworks
• SPSS Statistics
• SAS Foundation with Enterprise Guide
• Vectorworks

Users with access to KHW-71B can also use the following applications:

• ANSYS Suite of applications
• Catia V5
  

Note:  Some students may have access to additional applications, depending on the requirements of their courses.