I thought it would help to collate all my current RDS posts onto one to make it easier for you tech's to find things. I will add new links to this post when i publish new articles. Deploying RDS 2012 Single Server – Session Based deployment Deploying RDS 2012 using Standard Deployment Creating a Remote Desktop Session... Continue Reading →
I keep coming across the following error when deploying Server 2012 failover clusters. "A weak event was created and it lives on the wrong object, there is a very high chance this will fail, please review and make changes on your code to prevent this issue" Microsoft have released a Knowledge base article to resolve... Continue Reading →
For all those who have separate Remote Desktop Web Farms and Gateway Farms, why not use KEMP's LoadMaster to load balance both services over a single Virtual Service (IP Address). This can be easily achieved by using Sub interfaces. Some important info before we start, Before Server 2012, the RD Gateway used a single HTTP Channel. Post Server 2012,... Continue Reading →
To use the "connect to a Remote Computer" feature in RDS 2012 you would need to add the RD gateway address to the settings on the web access server. To do this you would need to open up IIS in the RDweb Server. Expand the default Website Select "Pages" Select "Application Settings" Then open up the "DefaultTSGateway" Enter... Continue Reading →
I thought it would be a good Idea to include a post that provides information on the troubles caused by removing a RD Connection Broker Availability configuration. Once a RD Connection Broker HA configuration is installed, you cannot revert back to the windows internal Database with out decommissioning the whole RDS configuration. When you add... Continue Reading →
Adding RD Licensing Role to RDS Deployment. Right Click on RD Licensing and add server Select the servers you wish to be licensing servers Once you are happy Click Add. Configure Licensing per Device or per Cal : Please see the following link for more information http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc753650.aspx The PowerShell Way set-rdlicenseconfiguration -LicenseServer RDS1.test.Local -Mode PerUser -ConnectionBroker RDS1.test.Local... Continue Reading →
To configure a RD Gateway Farm, you would need to install the Gateway server Role on two or more servers. Once you have installed the Gateway role you would then need to export the policies from the first server and import them into the newly created. Open the RD Gateway Manager, then open the Server... Continue Reading →
This post shows you how to deploy RDS using the standard deployment option in Add Roles and Features Wizard. You can add multiple servers to the configuration but for this demonstration I will be using a single server. This shows how to install a Session Based deployment which allows users to connect to session collections.... Continue Reading →
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