What You Need Before You Begin

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Deployments on public clouds continue to be supported but the content for third-party public cloud deployments is no longer updated.

For the latest Tableau Server deployment content, see the Enterprise Deployment Guide(Link opens in a new window) and the Deploy(Link opens in a new window) section of Tableau Server help.

For those customers who have access, we recommend Tableau Cloud. For more details, see:

Before deploying Tableau Server on Microsoft Azure, you must have the following:

A Microsoft Azure subscription. If you don't already have a subscription, you can sign up for a free trial on the Microsoft Azure Free Trial(Link opens in a new window) website.
A Tableau Server license.
- For a standalone Tableau Server deployment, you must contact sales(Link opens in a new window) for a product key.
- For a cluster-based deployment, you need a user-based license (which covers all authorized users of Tableau Server), a core-based license (with a minimum of 16 cores), or a Tableau Server subscription license. To obtain a product key, contact sales(Link opens in a new window).
For more information about Tableau Server licensing options, see Licensing Overview(Link opens in a new window).
Microsoft Remote Desktop installed on your computer. You use Remote Desktop to sign in to the VM that is hosting Tableau Server. Remote Desktop is pre-installed on Windows-based operating systems. If you use a Mac, you can install Remote Desktop as a client from the Microsoft Download Center(Link opens in a new window). If you're connecting from a computer running Linux, you can use rdesktop(Link opens in a new window) to connect to your Azure VM running Microsoft Windows. For more information, see How to connect and log on to an Azure virtual machine running Windows(Link opens in a new window) at the Microsoft Azure website.
Tableau Server installer. You can download the installer from the Tableau Server Trial Download(Link opens in a new window) page.

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