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Hello everyone, We have just set up an RD Farm which consists of two RD Session Hosts with Connection Broker to help with load balancing - and it seems to work quite well. We also have RD Web Access on the gateway server as well. Our setup is: Gateway Server - gateway.domain.com (Joined to domain.local) - This is accessible via the internet Session Host 1 - SessionHost1.domain.local Session Host 2 - SessionHost2.domain.local My question is: Is it possible to open up Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc) on a computer and then type in gateway.domain.com which then logs the user onto one of the two session hosts. When trying it, it seems that it tries to connect the user to the RD Gateway Server rather than one of the two session host servers. Any help regarding trying to get it to pass the remote desktop connection to one of the session hosts rather than connecting to the gateway server. I know that you can specify the Gateway server and then enter the FQDN (sessionhost1.domain.local) in the computer to connect to. But we were just wondering if there is a way of it automatically passing these RD connections to the session hosts. Thanks in advance!! J.Worth.

Hello Everyone! We are trying to setup an RDS Farm and are confused with what certificates we need to use. Our setup is as follows: Server 1 - Internet Facing (remote.domain.com (joined to domain.local)) - RD Gateway - RD Web Access - RD Licensing - RD Connection Broker Server 2 - Non-Internet Facing (Session1.domain.local) - RD Session Host Server 3 - Non-Internet Facing (Session2.domain.local) - RD Session Host The confusion lies in signing the remoteApps. As they reside on a server that has a .local domain how can I get these to be signed by a Public Certification Authority? We are currently looking a purchasing a Wilcard certificate - *.domain.com and obviously this cannot be used for the session hosts. So my final question is how can I sign these remoteApps so that they can be used externally without any issues. I hope that the above makes sense! Thanks in advance. J.Worth

Hello everyone, We have the following setup for our terminal server environment: SERVER-TSG: RD Gateway RD Licensing RD Connection Broker RD Web Access SERVER-TS1: RD Session Host SERVER-TS2: RD Session Host We are finding that when connecting to a "full" remote desktop connection it hangs on Configuring Remote Connection for about 1-2 mins before actually connecting. This is also the same when launching a RemoteApp. We have configured our certificate on all of the servers and we are not getting any certificate errors. We have a dns record: RD-FARM.SCHOOL.LA.SCH.UK which points to both of the session hosts. Our main question is: Is there anyway of reducing the amount of time it takes for a remote desktop connection to be established? Thanks in advance! J.Worth

Hello everyone, I have a Windows 7 Home Premium computer that I use to connect to RD Web and launch RemoteApps. The problem is that I get prompted twice to enter credentials to open a RemoteApp - I get prompted at the RD Web Access login which is fine but for some reason SSO is not working and causing me to have to re-authenticate when I launch a RemoteApp. It also asks for credentials everytime I open another remoteApp during that session. I can confirm that the server side setup is working properly because I have tried it on another Windows computer which is not connected to the same domain. This other computer is running Windows 7 Professional - is it possible that this is the reason why, when launching remoteApps on Home Premium I am asked again when I click on a remoteApp - I can't think this would be. Any help/advice would be appreciated as it is quite annoying when trying to use a number of remoteApps!! Thanks in advance! J.Worth.

Hi All I have a budget of about £10k and i need to use that to enable 10-15 staff members to work from home. my thinking was in order to be very cost effective I can recycle the old desktops we have at the school and set them up for remote access, the main objective is to prevent staff from downloading documents to their personal devices and by using a remote desktop hosted in the school we can contain that. is there a better more cost effective way to do this ? what would be a good cost effective software to allow them to remote in to those machines ? we use the LGFL connection at the school but I find their offering of remote desktop to be overcomplicated and not very intuitive below are the things we cant do allow them to login to office 365 from their personal laptops provide them with school hardware at home I appreciate your input on this issue !