What's new in Remote Desktop Services
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Remote Desktop Services [RDS] built on Windows Server 2016 is a virtualization platform enabling a wide range of customer scenarios. Improvements in the overall RDS solution incorporates the work done by both the Remote Desktop team and other technology partners at Microsoft. The following scenarios and technologies are new or improved in Windows Server 2016.
Also be sure to check out our session from Ignite 2016: Harness RDS improvements in Windows Server 2016. In this video, the product team reviews all of the new and improved features in Remote Desktop Services, including vGPU support.
Supported configurations for Remote Desktop Services
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- 02/10/2022
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Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019
When it comes to supported configurations for Remote Desktop Services environments, the largest concern tends to be version interoperability. Most environments include multiple versions of Windows Server - for example, you may have an existing Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS deployment but want to upgrade to Windows Server 2016 to take advantage of the new features [like support for OpenGL\OpenCL, Discrete Device Assignment, or Storage Spaces Direct]. The question then becomes, which RDS components can work with different versions and which need to be the same?
So with that in mind, here are basic guidelines for supported configurations of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server.
Note
Make sure to review the system requirements for Windows Server.
Prerequisites
There are only two necessary steps before we embark on installing RDS. Those are:
- All servers are domain joined
- There are at least two available servers
The reason that we need two servers is that the RD Licensing role will go on the second server rather than all on one, as this is considered a Microsoft best practice. In this tutorial, we use the Domain Controller as the RD License server which would not be considered best practice. The reason for doing this in this tutorial is to keep the installation simple.
Preface:
Remote Desktop Services is a robust role in the windows role group. RDS is used to remote into the central RDS server or any member server or the user’s desktop computer through the RDS server using the Remote Desktop web services either on the internal network or through the internet.
This article discusses the access of the servers and desktops accessed over the internet using RD Gateway using the https port. The Servers and desktops on the on-premises can be accessed without the need RDP port 3389 opened on the firewall. Where the RDP port 3389 is the hacking target for hackers over the internet. As the https port used for the access of remote desktop, the port is usually used for most of the businesses to access the webserver hosted internally.
The Remote Desktop Services will be cost-effective when the number of users or devices accessing applications with an excessive amount of licenses needed. Also, this role is most useful where the client computers installed on the company network or home is not the latest, and the application demands such as hardware or operating systems.
We are going to delve deep into this installation and configuration on an active directory domain network with network policy server [NPS] security. We are using a public CA certificate in this demonstration and hostname assigned on the public DNS.
The following points discussed in this article. Following this article, one can install and configure Remote Desktop Services on a Windows Server 2019 and publish the RDP app to access a server or a desktop as per need on the remote desktop web app portal.
- Add Remote Desktop Services Role
- Add Server to RD Licenses and RD gateway
- Install public CA certificate to each role of RDS
- Configure RD Licenses
- Configure Remote App Collection
- Publish and Configure Remote App
- Access RD Web and Remote App
To begin with, the demonstration, let’s add the Remote desktop Roles group on the server manager and going forward to configure each component.