Deploying windows 2008 r2 remote desktop services

Load balancing may be configured using a concept known as relative weighting or using round-robin DNS. Under relative weighting, an administrator assigns each server a weight value based on percentages which, relative to the weights assigned to other servers, governs the load levels on that server.

It is important to understand that loading is based on number of sessions on each server, and not any knowledge of the total resource load on a particular server at a given time.

For example, one server with small 'resource light' applications will be viewed by the RD Connection Broker as being at the same load level as a server with the same number of large, resource intensive applications. Before deploying a Remote Desktop server farm there a few key prerequisites that should be taken into consideration.

Firstly, the server designated to run the RD Session Broker service must be a member of a domain. Secondly all RD Session Hosts in a farm must be configured such that they make the same applications available for remote access. Finally, client systems must be running Remote Desktop Connection 5.

For the purposes of this chapter a configuration consisting of two RD Session Hosts named winserver-1 and winserver-2 respectively and one server operating as the RD Connection Broker named winserver-3 will be used. Note that the RD Connection Broker server must belong to a domain, otherwise it will not be possible to install and the enable the Broker service.

On the roles screen select Add Roles and select Remote Desktop Services from the list of roles and then Next to continue. On the resulting information screen click Next to proceed to the Role Services screen where the RD Connection Broker option needs to be selected.

Click Next and then Install on the final screen. The installation will begin and will likely require a reboot. Once the system has reboot, log in as the same user to complete the final phase of the installation process. Before an RD Session Host server can be added to the remote desktop server farm it must first be added as a member of this group on the RD Connection Broker server system. As mentioned previously, the RD Connection Broker server must be part of a domain.

Depending on whether the server is a domain controller or not will govern how the Session Broker Computers group is managed. Last updated on Previous Article Next Article. Did you find this page helpful? Yes No. Do you have further questions, remarks or suggestions? One of the components of Microsoft Windows that allows users to remotely access applications and data. Note that the Start Install Licenses Wizard now check box is selected by default.

This can be performed as a continuation of the RD License Server activation process as outlined above, or at any other time by opening the RD Licensing Manager, right clicking on the appropriate license server in the list and choosing Install Licenses from the popup menu.

Once the Install Licenses wizard has started, click Next on the welcome screen to select the type of license program being used. Select the appropriate license type from the drop down list depending on how the licenses were acquired and then click Next to enter the license codes. On the License Program screen enter each code and press the Add button:.

Select the license program corresponding to your license and click next to proceed to the License Code screen:. Enter each license key into this screen followed by the Add button. Once all the license codes have been added click on the Next button to complete the license installation process.

Within this tool, double click on the Remote Desktop licensing mode entry located in the Edit settings box listed under Licensing. In the resulting Licensing tab of the properties dialog select the appropriate licensing mode per device or per user.

Having defined the licensing mode, the next task is to specify the licensing server. Beneath the mode selection area, click on the Add… button to display the Add License Server dialog as illustrated in the following figure:. All known license servers will be listed in the left hand box. To complete this task, refer to the IIS 7.

Display name—The name that users will use to identify the customized view of RemoteApp programs and virtual desktops provided by this server. The applications that are shown on this page are shortcuts that are found in the All Users Start Menu folder.

After selecting an application or applications to add to the RemoteApps list, an administrator can then choose to configure the different RemoteApp properties for that application or applications. To do this, select the application name, click Properties, make any needed modifications, and then click OK. Per-user environment variables cannot be used.

In the RD RemoteApp Manager interface, an administrator can also configure a number of deployment settings that globally apply to all RemoteApp programs in the RemoteApps list.