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mar 15
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Managing lower version licenses from a license server running Windows Server 2008 R2
mar 15
Introduction
Many companies have multiple versions of Remote Desktop Session Host servers (formerly known as terminal servers), such as Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, in their environment. A remote desktop connection to any of these host servers requires a client access license (CAL) of the same or higher [...]
RemoteApp for Hyper-V (VDI) Deployment
mar 9
Similar to RemoteApp, the RemoteApp for Hyper-V feature allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. When using RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp for Hyper-V enables remote access to an application running on a Hyper-V virtual [...]
Remote Desktop Session Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2
mar 2
The white paper, RD Session Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2, is now live on the Download Center. This white paper describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate capacity for specific deployments, and a set of experimental results for [...]
Microsoft VDI – High Availability Deployment Options
mar 2
The Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Microsoft VDI) involves multiple role services. To develop a true high availability solution for this setup, you need to understand the high availability solution for each role service. This blog post identifies the key pieces of the Microsoft VDI solution and provides details on the high [...]
How to detect RDS-specific application compatibility issues by using the RDS Application Compatibility Analyzer
gen 20
The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer is a runtime program analysis tool that enables administrators and users to determine the compatibility of an application with a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server before deploying it. The tool provides a summary of incompatible behaviour between the RD Session Host server and an [...]
Publish RD Gateway on an ISA server using a script
gen 9
The Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway, formerly known as TS Gateway) ISA configuration script helps ease the process of setting up an ISA server for RD Gateway supported scenarios such as the RD Gateway-ISA core scenario and the RD Gateway-ISA OTP scenario. The script runs on the ISA server and completely eliminates the need to configure the [...]
RemoteApp for Hyper-V
dic 16
I want to talk about a little known feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be described as RemoteApp for Hyper-V. Like Microsoft RemoteApp, it allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. With RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp [...]
Deploying Windows Vista or Windows XP as the guest operating system in a Virtual Machine
dic 2
Overview
The purpose of this post is to help an Administrator configure a Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine for a Remote Desktop Services Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment.
This post is an addendum to the Step 2: Installing and Configuring the Virtual Machine section for the following Step-by-Step guides published in [...]
Personal Virtual Desktops
nov 17
With Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft supports two VDI deployment scenarios: virtual desktop pools and personal virtual desktops. The two scenarios present two different models of assigning virtual machines to end users: shared and dedicated. This post describes personal virtual desktops.
What is a personal virtual desktop? – A personal virtual desktop is a virtual machine hosted on [...]