How to connect to a Virtual Research Environment

Prerequisites

Please ensure familiary with any relevant restrictions on Territory of Use required by all relevant Data sharing Agreements you have in place for your project.

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Please ensure familiary with any relevant restrictions on Territory of Use required by all relevant Data sharing Agreements you have in place for your project.

:exclamation: IMPORTANT
Please ensure familiary with any relevant restrictions on Territory of Use required by all relevant Data sharing Agreements you have in place for your project.

You will need:

• Citrix Workspace installed to the machine you are connecting to LASER from.
  • Citrix Workspace is available through Software Centre on UoL managed devices.
• Duo two factor authentication enabled.
  • More information on DUO can be found here.

Log in to the Storefront

• Navigate to the StoreFront here: https://laser.leeds.ac.uk/.
• Sign in using your University of Leeds credentials.
• When prompted, choose an authentication method and accept the login request/enter the passcode.
  
• You may be asked if Citrix Receiver is installed:
  • Click to detect installation.
  • Allow browser to ‘Open Citrix Workspace Launcher’.
  • If not detected but installation is present click ‘Already installed’.
• You are now presented with all of the VRE desktops you have access to.
• Click on the image of the monitor or expand the options and click ‘Open’ to connect.
  
  • You may be asked to download a *.ica launcher file.
    
  • Save and open this file, it will be deleted when your session ends.
• Citrix Workspace will launch and connect to your chosen VRE desktop.