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Jordan Krause
Jordan Krause
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Jordan Krause

Jordan Krause has been an IT professional for more than 20 years and has received 9 Microsoft MVP awards for his work with Microsoft server and networking technologies. One of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, he has a passion for helping companies find the best ways to enable a remote workforce. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCSE, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and has authored numerous books on Microsoft technologies. Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA), but works daily with companies around the world.
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Wherefore art thou, role?

What is the first thing you typically need to accomplish on a Windows Server instance to make it do any kind of real work? Oh yeah, install a role. The trouble with this is that our fingers get so used to muscle-memorying their way through the Add Roles and Features Wizard screens that you may already be staring at the list of Windows Server roles and getting ready to click on the one called Remote Desktop Services. Stop!

Back up. If you slow down and pay attention when you launch the wizard to install your new role, you will notice that you normally blow right past a screen that asks whether you want to install an RDS component or any other Windows Server component. RDS has an entirely separate section of the Add Roles and Features Wizard. The easiest way to deploy RDS is to make use of this second option and continue forward from here.

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Figure 15.1: Initial configuration wizard for RDS

Now that you are navigating down the correct role installation...

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Jordan Krause has been an IT professional for more than 20 years and has received 9 Microsoft MVP awards for his work with Microsoft server and networking technologies. One of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, he has a passion for helping companies find the best ways to enable a remote workforce. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCSE, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and has authored numerous books on Microsoft technologies. Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA), but works daily with companies around the world.
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