For all thoses looking to deploy Pooled VDI Collections, have a look at the following capacity management Document. This will assist with scoping the correct required capacitys when creating VDI Solutions. Cappacity Planning Guide
Deploying RDS 2012 Wild Card Certificate using PowerShell
For all those using wild card certificates for RDS installations, I have written a script that allows you to import and configure the wild card certificate on all RDS Roles. It is advised that the script is run on the RD Connection Broker. Ensure the Certificate is in PFX format and stored locally in a... Continue Reading →
RDS 2012 Security Hardening Guide
I recently came across the server 2012 Secuity guide apart of the "Secuirty Compliance Manager" which covers the Secuity Hardening of RDS 2012. This document provides the best practices when securing server 2012 and RDS 2012. Please see the link below: Windows Server 2012 Security Baseline Microsoft Security Compliance Manager To access the Windows Server 2012 Security Guide,... Continue Reading →
Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Services 2012 R2
Microsoft produced "Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 in April 12 2013 which contains information on performance tuning in RDS 2012. Pages 123 to 141 for RDS 2012 Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012
RDS 2012 RDSH Certificate deployment script
Over the last couple of months i have been asked a number of questions with regards to certificate warnings relating to the session host server. To simplify the process of deploying/replacing the default RDP certificate on the Session host, i have written a PowerShell Script that takes care of the installation of a trusted certificate.... Continue Reading →
RemoteApp POC/LAB RDS 2012 Single Server Deployment Script
I have written a Powershell Script to deploy RDS 2012 Single Server RemoteApp Proof of concept or lab deployment. This script deploys a fully functional/preconfigured RDS deployment for use in a Proof of concept or Lab environment. The script deploys all the roles required for RDS and configures self assigned certificates for all roles. The script... Continue Reading →
Load Balancing the RD Connection Brokers with KEMP
This post will show you how to configure the load balancing of RDS 2012 Connection brokers. For the configuration of RD Connection broker high Availability please see the following article (here) Before we get started with the configuration of the KEMP LoadMaster, I have included some information on other load balancing solutions and why its... Continue Reading →
RDS 2012 R2 Apps and Session’s using UPD Issue
A few months ago I published an article showing readers how enable Remote Desktops and Remote Apps in the same collection. So when a user logins into RDweb you will see both RemoteApps and Full Desktops. For information how to configure this please click (here) After some testing, I have found issues when using User Profile... Continue Reading →
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