I’m going to treat both of the scenarios in this article, but since there is no option in the wizard to do this in one shot we will deploy the session-based server later on. Here, you need to choose the type of scenario that you are going to run in your RDS infrastructure, either virtual desktops or remote sessions. If for some reason you want to deploy all the roles on one box, select the Quick Start option. I told you at the begging of the article that we are going to deploy every RDS role on their own server, and to do that choose the Standard deployment type. On the Installation Type page select the second option, Remote Desktop Services installation then click Next. Once that was taking care of, go to Manage > Add Roles and Features. At the end you should have something similar to the bellow image. Now log in on the domain controller and add all the servers to the Server Manager console. I’m presuming you already joined all the machines to the domain, and name them accordingly. But since you are running this in a virtual environment, and I hope you do, it shouldn’t be hard to increase or decrease server resources. As for hardware requirements, I can’t tell you how many resources you need on these servers because it all depends on how many users you will have. Without further ado, let’s dig in.įor this lab you will need at least five virtual machines: one is the domain controller, then the other ones will be the machines that will hold the RDS roles -RD Connection Broker service, RD Session Host, RD Virtualization host and the RD Web Access server.
#Remote desktop server 2012 r2 how to#
In this article I’m not going to treat this type of installation since it’s to easy, instead I’m going to show you how to install the RDS roles on separate boxes. Also, if you want to deploy all the roles on a single box you can do that with just a few clicks.
You don’t have to go anymore and do this on server by server basis, even tough you still have the option to do so. Not only you have a single central console from where you manage all your RDS infrastructure, but you can also install all the RDS roles remotely from this console. In previous versions of Windows, deploying a RDS infrastructure was a little bit difficult, but starting with server 2012/R2 this was simplified a lot.