It really boils down to new needs. We're rolling out an SAP deployment and would have had to add more Win/Citrix servers anyway. That was originally the direction we were going to go.
We compared that to the costs of Citrix vs RDS and the performance (we've found SAP to be a hog) and RDS seemed to be the right move. We have the SAP client loaded on Citrix now and it works for testing, but it is just screaming on RDS. I don't mean to rag on Citrix. It has worked well for us for a very long time (Back to the Winframe days). My SA just came up for renewal and we'll probably renew it for another year, but it seems like an expense that will be unnecessary if RDS continues to work as advertised. ---------------------------------- Joe Louis Systems Network Manager From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress! Curious Joe - are you switching from MPS 4.5 to RDS for cost or other reason(s) ? Don K ________________________________ From: "Louis, Joe" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:41 PM Subject: RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress! I am literally in the middle of the same deployment coming from Citrix 4.5 . This completely different from the old TSE days. If I can make a suggestion that was made to me about the self-signed cert, get a wildcard one from a trusted CA instead. And make it to a domain that resolves on the internet. My understanding is that it will make life much easier as you publish your apps, the RDWeb and having users outside trying to traverse the different machines without having to import certs. And for Windows 7/8 machines, you can add the url to the RemoteAppAndDesktopConnections cpl and the rdp files will populate for your users (configurable via GPO). The only thing missing is the (near) seamless compatibility across platforms like Citrix was. ---------------------------------- Joe Louis -----Original Message----- From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress! SO I am making progress! I had already installed the RDS as a role, but that didn't configure the deployment. So I went to Server Manager, clicked on RDS, and clicked on Deploy. It then went into what seemed like an install of RDS as a service (which had failed before). This time, however, the deploy step went through without error. I rebooted at the end, and after I logged back in, I was able to install an app (Notepad++), and then I was able to add it to a Quick Session Collection, publish it as a RemoteApp, and I was able to access it remotely. w00t! Definite progress. So now I need to make my own collection, add an app to it. Then investigate how to use a separate web server front end for it (to separate the RDS hosts from the web access). And probably give it our self-signed internal certificate, to stop it complaining about untrusted publishers of the app. So I am definitely further along than I was. ~ 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
