How can we connect USB Senitel HSP dongle in Azure VM it is a physical dongle?

Sajil Meledath 1

My Organization working on the software that uses software wth one USB dongle in which we use Driver Senitel HASP
i want to connect the dongle in Azure VM

Dimitri 0 Reputation points

2023-05-05T13:00:27.01+00:00
This what we did...

We bought a Digi AnywhereUSB2 device and connected it On-Premise with the Sentinel dongle.

The IP address given to the Digi device was 192.168.111.111

We created a site-to-site VPN between Azure and our On-Premise firewall device.

Our Azure VM IP address was 10.10.10.10

We ensured we could ping 192.168.111.111 from our AzureVM at 10.10.10.10

On the Azure VM we installed the Digi software to connect to the device sitting On-Premise. We input 192.168.111.111 in the discovery and connection list. We successfully connected the dongle as the device manager showed a USB token with an exclamation mark. We installed the Sentinel Protection software in for the drivers to be installed. A reboot was required for the driver to be applied to the USB token/dongle.

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Winston 2,761 Reputation points

2020-09-23T22:10:00.697+00:00

Hi @Sajil Meledath ,

From what I understand you have a physical peripheral and your developing software for it on an Azure VM. What I would do is plug the physical dongle into your on premises machine and then RDP into your dev VM on Azure. Using RDP you can give your remote session access to your local peripherals. I've tested this with my USB Hub and a standard Azure VM. It works great. See a screenshot I took below:

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Sajil Meledath 1 Reputation point

2020-09-24T07:11:40.673+00:00

no that is not the solution
i already checked it
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Winston 2,761 Reputation points

2020-09-24T15:37:08.707+00:00

Your not able to see the dongle on your VM when you pass the peripheral through? If you look at the device manager on the remote machine, do you see it? Expand the "Other Supported Devices" option and ensure your dongle shows up there.

Sajil Meledath 1 Reputation point

2020-09-25T06:26:03.62+00:00

no
,I already checked there dongle is not there.
is there any other method from where i can connect my dongle.

Winston 2,761 Reputation points

2020-09-25T23:26:32.277+00:00

Hi @Sajil Meledath ,

If its not under ports or drives (make sure to expand the options) you should check the VM's Remote Desktop Policies and ensure USB Redirection is enabled. You can do that with:

Group Policies > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services

'Connection Client' for the Local machine
'Remote Desktop Session Host' for the VM

Make sure you enable USB Redirection on both the local machine and the remote VM. You may have to restart the VM after changing these policies for it to take affect.

Winston 2,761 Reputation points

2020-09-28T16:06:57.413+00:00

Hi @Sajil Meledath ,

If my answer helped you resolve your issue please mark my original post as accepted. Otherwise if your still having trouble let me where your at. Thanks!
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Tim Rankin 0 Reputation points

2023-02-16T11:48:16.1466667+00:00

Has anyone found a solution for HASP sentinel dongles working with Azure AVD yet?!
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