It's that time of year again and everyone is busily preparing for the holiday season. There are trips to plan, Black Friday gifts to buy, and last minute preparation for the arrival of friends and family. This time of year sees a measureable increase in economic activity; part-time workers are hired, more shipments are made, and finally - an increase in network utilization. Behind every merchant website (and network) is a backend system managed by an Administrator or Systems Engineer. These … [Read more...] about It’s Not Always a Holiday for the IT Department
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Configuring the RD Gateway Server for a 2012 RDS farm with HA enabled for the RD Connection Brokers
Applies to: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 In a previous article, we demonstrated the steps needed to configure HA for the RD Connection Broker servers in an RDS 2012 farm. If you are using an RD Gateway server for a farm where HA is configured for the brokers, there are a few steps you will need to do in order for users to be able to successfully connect through the RD Gateway server(s). When a user connects through the RD Gateway server, the gateway server will initially connect the user to … [Read more...] about Configuring the RD Gateway Server for a 2012 RDS farm with HA enabled for the RD Connection Brokers
Configuring HA for the Remote Desktop Connection Broker in a 2012 RDS Farm
Applies to: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 One of the biggest issues with Remote Desktop Services on Windows 2008 R2 was the limitation of only having a single active RD Connection Broker server per RDS farm. Yes, you still could have multiple broker servers, however they would run in an Active/Passive mode. This was a major problem since it would limit the size of the farm. The more servers, resources, and users added to the farm put a strain on the single active RD broker server. In most … [Read more...] about Configuring HA for the Remote Desktop Connection Broker in a 2012 RDS Farm
