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Should terminal services ideally be deployed as a single or dual Windows 2012 server solution?
Previously Small Business Server Premium was required in order to setup terminal services, with the second server then becoming the terminal server.
With SBS being discontinued, should terminal services ideally be setup as a single or dual Windows 2012 standard server solution and what are the pros / cons, if this can be setup either way?
There are approximately 20 users, with perhaps 5 terminal services sessions required at any one time, where users do not have their own desktop computer to connect to in the office.
There is also accounting software in place which uses SQL, with perhaps 5 users.
With SBS being discontinued, should terminal services ideally be setup as a single or dual Windows 2012 standard server solution and what are the pros / cons, if this can be setup either way?
There are approximately 20 users, with perhaps 5 terminal services sessions required at any one time, where users do not have their own desktop computer to connect to in the office.
There is also accounting software in place which uses SQL, with perhaps 5 users.
Don Thomson
SBS starting with SBS 2003 do not support the Terminal Services option - With the SBS 2012 Premium - you have a separate license that allows you to run a Terminal server as a second box. You will need to purchase CALS for the number of simultaneous RDP users.
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The question relates to setting up terminal services on Windows 2012 standard edition.
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Do you plan on deploying Terminal Services (now known as Remote Desktop Services) on new or existing hardware? Do you plan on using Hyper-V virtual machines for the RDS Session Hosts (aka Terminal Servers)?
If you are only planning on having one physical machine then you can follow these steps to install RDS on a Domain Controller, although I wouldn't recommend this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833839
Can't really give more recommendations without knowing what hardware you have to work with.
If you are only planning on having one physical machine then you can follow these steps to install RDS on a Domain Controller, although I wouldn't recommend this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833839
Can't really give more recommendations without knowing what hardware you have to work with.
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This would probably be deployed on two new servers, with RAID 5 SAS drives, 16GB RAM and a Xeon processor.
Previously RDS was not supported on a DC, but in a real world scenario, I am not sure if a single DC & RDS server solution is viable. Microsoft also seem to be moving away from a single server, multi-role solution for small businesses with the discontinuation of SBS 2011.
Previously RDS was not supported on a DC, but in a real world scenario, I am not sure if a single DC & RDS server solution is viable. Microsoft also seem to be moving away from a single server, multi-role solution for small businesses with the discontinuation of SBS 2011.
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