See, part of the problem is that all the documentation I am finding is about setting up Remote Desktop Services not as a Role (apparently), but I need it as a Role. When I inquired previously about this, James Hill told me:
> The guide you have followed is for a VDI installation an hence it uses the > second option in the Add Roles and Features Wizard. And every other guide I am finding starts the same way - to install with the second option, but that's not what I want/need. And I am lost trying to figure out where to go from here, to start configuring my server. I don't want a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), apparently. But even all the web sites that deal with setting up RemoteApp start off by installing RDS for VDI. I'm told that I can do this (use RDS but not as VDI, with the RDS host running as a VM). But I can't seem to get started on it. What base concept am I missing here? On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > So we use a Citrix environment (it's really old runs on Win2003, is > Presentation Manager v 4.58, has 2 front end web servers as load > balancing, and 2 back end servers in the farm that are running a > single application ). > > And what we will be doing is to replace all that with a Win2012 > environment, running Remote Desktop Services in a similar > configuration (front end web servers, back end farm). Now, all these > Win2012 servers will be VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 VMs (or that's what > we want - all VMs). > > My task is a proof-of-concept environment - someone else will be > involved in the actual migration. So what I need to do is publish a > single app, in a similar fashion to my existing Citrix environment > (via a front end web server) as a proof-of-concept that we can/should > be able to do this as VMs. > > And I am having trouble understanding what I need to do to set this > all up. I have a Win2012 server that I installed RDS onto (as a Role - > I installed the Remote Desktop Connection Broker, Remote Desktop > Session Host, and Remote Desktop Web Access - I haven't installed the > Licensing Host yet) - . And I'm not sure where to go from here. I've > seen lots of web sites that detail RDS, etc But they don't seem to be > what I want - or, if they are, I'm Just Not Getting It. > > It has something to do with RemoteApp, near as I can figure. I'm > completely unclear on how the front end web servers will enter into > it, but one step at a time, I guess. Server Manager at the moment > shows me Remote Desktop Services, and tells me a RDS deployment does > not exist in the server pool. > > Right now I want to just set up a test app (even Notepad will do fine, > as a test), and I want to see it work from a client's web browser > (clients will be XP and Win 7). > > Can somebody point me at a beginner how to for this? Years back, I set > up a Win2003 terminal server, but that was an entire desktop, not just > specific published applications (which is what I need in this case). > > Thanks. I realize I will need to provide more info, please feel free to ask. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
