Publishing RDS sessions

RDS is all about creating a centralized computing environment for users to take advantage of and leaving resource assignment and utilization to the servers, which greatly reduces the need to care about what kind of workstation or laptop somebody is using to connect. Two primary types of connections exist in an RDS environment: publishing full virtual desktops and publishing individual applications, which we will discuss near the end of this chapter.

We are going to build an RDS environment that contains all of the components we outlined earlier, and we are going to use this RDS farm to publish full virtual desktop sessions that users will be able to log in to and work from.

When building a fresh RDS environment, it is helpful to have all of the servers you intend to include already running and initially prepped. These servers should have a final hostname, have reserved or static IP addresses, and already be joined to your domain. For my lab today, I...