Server 2012 R2 remote desktop farm guide
Greetings experts,
Does anyone know of a 1-2-3 guide in setting up a Server 2012 r2 Remote Desktop farm?
There have been changes from 2008 and 2012 r2, so a 2008 guide will not work.
This is what I want to accomplish:
1. Setup multiple remote desktop servers to work with a barracuda load balancer, Lets start with 2 just to keep it simple.
a. I already setup the load balancer, which works great, so don't need help with that.
2. This is a very simple environment. Will only be using MS office, a .net app and Internet. I have already tested everything in 2012 r2 and it all works.
3. would like to see who is logged on (preferably which server) and be able to send messages to the users via remote desktop messenger.
4. would like to make sure that once a user has a session open, if disconnected, is returned to the same session once they log back on.
5. I think I want a session based environment, not 100% clear on why to use either session or virtual, again MS gives information, but not a real world example of which to choose.
6. Have two physical servers, would be great if I could introduce a Hyper server as well, but the two physical servers are most important.
Please don't point me to the MS TechNet article on 2012 r2, it just goes through features and doesn't give you the steps on how to accomplish.
Thank you for any help..
Kacey
Does anyone know of a 1-2-3 guide in setting up a Server 2012 r2 Remote Desktop farm?
There have been changes from 2008 and 2012 r2, so a 2008 guide will not work.
This is what I want to accomplish:
1. Setup multiple remote desktop servers to work with a barracuda load balancer, Lets start with 2 just to keep it simple.
a. I already setup the load balancer, which works great, so don't need help with that.
2. This is a very simple environment. Will only be using MS office, a .net app and Internet. I have already tested everything in 2012 r2 and it all works.
3. would like to see who is logged on (preferably which server) and be able to send messages to the users via remote desktop messenger.
4. would like to make sure that once a user has a session open, if disconnected, is returned to the same session once they log back on.
5. I think I want a session based environment, not 100% clear on why to use either session or virtual, again MS gives information, but not a real world example of which to choose.
6. Have two physical servers, would be great if I could introduce a Hyper server as well, but the two physical servers are most important.
Please don't point me to the MS TechNet article on 2012 r2, it just goes through features and doesn't give you the steps on how to accomplish.
Thank you for any help..
Kacey
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ITGuy,
Forgot to ask about certificates.. do you put a unique cert on each server? Or just one that holds the RD Web Access?
Forgot to ask about certificates.. do you put a unique cert on each server? Or just one that holds the RD Web Access?
For load balancing you would have to use your barracuda to set the affinity so that the user can reconnect to the same server.
Use Folder Redirection for the user data this way their data / configurations will follow them.
The servers can be server core with or without virtual servers using hyper-v it all depends upon what you have, what resources each server has, the storage subsystem... physical or virtual machines can be treated almost identically .. replication helps a lot here.
Use Folder Redirection for the user data this way their data / configurations will follow them.
The servers can be server core with or without virtual servers using hyper-v it all depends upon what you have, what resources each server has, the storage subsystem... physical or virtual machines can be treated almost identically .. replication helps a lot here.
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Can you please explain what was non compliant about it so this issue doesn't happen again?
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I'm looking through it now.
2 quick questions:
1. when the user logs in for the first time and has to configure an outlook profile, will they have to do this for each server they log onto until they have hit every server in the farm? or does the session create a profile on each server?
2. How do you assign printers? do you just install on each server and the users can pick or do you use Group policy?
thanks,
Kacey