My info is from 2008 R2, hopefully 2012 is similar Session Host (RDSH). Installed role: Remote Desktop Services. This server is what you'd install say, MS Office on and this is all you need to create an .RDP file to publish an app that folks can use if the endpoints are all on-network on the same domain.
License server is self-explanatory. Need it if you want to operate more than 120 days RD Gateway and RD Web access in my environment are on the same server, but different than RDSH RD Broker is only needed if you have multiple RDSH. In my environment I put RDS Licensing on this broker server Does this help? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment 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 ~ 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
