Install and configure terminal server windows 2012 r2

#Install and configure terminal server windows 2012 r2 install#
#Install and configure terminal server windows 2012 r2 android#

There is no вЂњhorsepowerвЂќ behind any of this, all the demo VMвЂ™s are small.

I have a Server 2012 R2 VM running in Hyper-V on my HP and that VM is the DC for my test domain, norex.local (in a nod to the days when I had my own company in case anyone wonders about the name) and a second Server 2012 R2 VM running in Hyper-V on the whitebox. My home lab is modest I have an older HP desktop machine running Windows 8 with Hyper-V enabled and a whitebox desktop machine currently loaded with an eval copy of Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled. LetвЂ™s take a look at my home lab RDS configuration as well as how the RDP client works on iOS and Android. And with Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has made it a whole lot easier to build out your RDS infrastructure! Microsoft is now deadly serious about providing the seamless services experience to all devices that users want to use to access RDS services (or any Microsoft supplied service, for that matter). Well, with the release of Server 2012 R2 and the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for iOS/Android there are now a whole bunch of options available to the iOS/Android device user of RDS services! And those options no longer rely on having a third-party app installed on either the RDS server or the iOS/Android device. The solution at that point was still Citrix (XenApp) which worked but which also added more cost and complexity to the equation. True, with certain third-party apps you could access the desktop of the RDS server with your iOS/Android device but published apps access was a no go. We hit this problem in-house with our own RDS server as well as at some customer sites.

#Install and configure terminal server windows 2012 r2 android#

Everything was just wonderful and many options were available for PC users and RDS not so much if you had an iPad/iPhone (henceforth referred to as iOS) or an Android device. However, even with the вЂњgoodnessвЂќ of RDS services in 2008 R2 and the even more expanded capabilities in 2012, there was still a вЂњdisconnectвЂќ between RDS and non-Microsoft device users. Then along came Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft started to chip away at Citrix dominance by adding in features such as Application Publishing to the growing feature list in Terminal Services (now Remote Desktop Services or RDS).

#Install and configure terminal server windows 2012 r2 install#

It sat on top of a Terminal Server install and provided extended functionality that mere Terminal Server users could only dream about.

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth you needed to use Citrix Presentation Server if you wanted to вЂњpublishвЂќ applications from a terminal server out to a webpage for easier yet controlled access by users.