Sunday, August 14, 2011

Installing and Configuring Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) on Windows Server 2008 R2 - part3

Configure Session Host to Use Licensing Server
After you reboot and log on to your Session Host and go to Start > Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration.


In the middle pane under Licensing double click “Remote Desktop license servers”.

Click Add.

Your license server should appear under known license servers.  If not, enter the FQDN or IP address of the server and click Add.  If you are not logged on as a Domain Administrator and the License server is on a different server in your domain it will give you a warning about being unable to verify, it should be okay to simply click through this message.  Click OK.
Add Users for Remote Desktop on the Session Host
Now we’ll go into Computer Management and add the additional users group(s) that we want to allow access to Remote Desktop sessions on the Session Host.  Go to Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.

Open up “Local Users and Groups” on the left pane, then highlight the Groups sub-folder.  Double click the “Remote Desktop Users” group in the center.

I’ll add the Domain Users group.  Click Add.

I will allow all of my domain users access to Remote Desktop sessions, so I’ll type Domain Users, click Check Names, then click OK.  Click OK through the remaining dialog windows, and close Computer Management.
Publish a Remote Desktop RemoteApp Program
Now it’s time to publish a test application.  Go to Start > Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services > RemoteApp Manager.  Click “Add RemoteApp Programs” in the right Actions pane.

Click Next.

I’ll test using the Calculator, so check that and click Next.  At the confirmation window click Finish.

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