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Windows Server 2012 : Enabling Users to Work Anywhere (part 2) - RDS Web Access

7/26/2014 9:24:24 PM

Improvements in Remote Desktop Client

Other improvements to Windows Server 2012 RDS include updates to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Remote Desktop Client (RDC).

The latest versions of the RDC support the following:

Video support up to 4,096 x 2,048—Users can use very large monitors across an RDP connection to view data off a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services system. With Windows Server 2012 RDS, the latest support has been extended to support DirectX 9, 10, and 11 redirection.

Multimonitor support—Users can also have multiple (up to 10) monitors supported off a single RDP connection. For applications like computer-aided design (CAD), graphical arts, and publishing, users can view graphical information on one screen and text information on another screen at the same time.

Secured connections—The latest RDP clients now provides for a highly encrypted remote connection to an RDS system through the use of Windows Server 2012 security. Organizations that need to ensure their data is protected and that employee privacy is ensured can implement a highly secured encrypted connection between a Windows Server 2012 RDS system and the remote client.

RDS Web Access

Also new to Windows Server 2008 and extended in Windows Server 2012 RDS is a role called RDS Web Access. RDS Web Access allows a remote client to access an RDS session without having to launch the RDP client, but instead connect to a web page, similar to that shown in Figure 1, that then allows the user to log on and access his or her session off the web page. This simplifies the access method for users; where they can just set a browser favorite to link them to a URL that provides them Terminal Services access.

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Figure 1. RDS Web Access.

RDS Gateway

RDS Gateway is an update to Windows Server 2012 RDS and provides the connectivity to an RDS session over a standard port 443 SSL connection. In early releases or RDS, users could only connect to Windows RDS using a proprietary port 3389 connection. Unfortunately, most organizations block nonstandard port connections for security purposes, and so if a user was connected to an Internet connection at a hotel, airport, coffee shop, or other location that blocked nonstandard ports, the user could not access Terminal Services.

Now with RDS Gateway, the remote user to the RDS Gateway connection goes over port 443, just like surfing a secured web page. Because of the use of SSL in web page access (anytime someone accesses a web page with https://), a user can now effectively access Windows Server 2012 RDS from any location.

RDS RemoteApps

Another server role added to Windows Server 2008 and updated in Windows Server 2012 is called RDS RemoteApps. RDS RemoteApps enables administrators to “publish” certain applications for users to access. These applications could be things like Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, the company’s timesheet tracking software, or a customer relationship management (CRM) program. Instead of giving users full access to a full desktop session complete with a Start button and access to all applications on the session, an organization can just publish a handful of applications that it allows for access.

Leveraging group policies and Network Policy Server, along with RDS RemoteApps, the administrators of a network can publish different groups of applications for different users. So, some users might get just Outlook and Word, whereas other users get Outlook, Word, and the CRM application. Add in to the policy component the ability to leverage network location awareness (new to Windows Server 2012 and covered in the earlier section “Improvements in the Group Policy Management”), the administrators of the network can allow different applications to be available to users depending on whether the user is logging on to the network on the LAN or from a remote location.

Beyond just limiting users by policy to only the programs they should have access to, RDS RemoteApps minimizes the overhead for each user connection because the user no longer has a full desktop running, but only a handful of applications deemed necessary for the remote user’s access.

Remote Desktop Virtualization Host for VDI

Lastly, a completely new role added to Windows Server 2008 and also greatly enhanced in Window Server 2012 is the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RDVH) role that provides Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) functionality. Instead of RDS that provides a one-to-many experience, where effectively a single server instance is shared across multiple users, VDI provides a one-to-one virtual guest session relationship between the server and remote client. When a VDI client user logs on to a guest session, a dedicated guest session is made available to the user with a separate client boot shell, separate memory pool allocated, and complete isolation of the guest session from other guest sessions on the host server.

Windows Server 2012 VDI provides two different VDI modes. One mode is a personalized desktop, and the other is a pooled desktop. The personalized desktop is a dedicated guest session that users have access to each and every time they log on to the VDI server. It is basically a dedicated guest session where the image the guest uses is the same every time. A pooled desktop is a guest session where the user settings (favorites, background, and application configuration settings) are saved and reloaded on logon to a standard template. Actual guest session resources are not permanently allocated but rather allocated and dedicated at the time of logon.

Windows to Go

Windows to Go is a great addition to Windows Server 2012, where effectively Windows is installed on a USB drive and Windows can be booted from the thumb drive. By having a bootable thumb drive, organizations can allow users to use various desktop and laptop systems that may otherwise be installed and configured with a different operating system or configuration (for example, a home system) but booted to the thumb drive that has a secured version of an organization’s operating system and applications. Windows to Go helps organizations maintain security of system configurations while allowing employees to retain personal laptop or desktop configurations.

Other -----------------
- Windows Server 2012 : Enhancements for Flexible Identity and Security (part 2) - Active Directory Unification for Various Directory Services
- Windows Server 2012 : Enhancements for Flexible Identity and Security (part 1) - Dynamic Access Control
- Windows Server 2012 : DHCP,IPv6 and IPAM - Exploring DHCP (part 3) - Creating IPv4 DHCP Scopes
- Windows Server 2012 : DHCP,IPv6 and IPAM - Exploring DHCP (part 2) - Installing DHCP Server and Server Tools
- Windows Server 2012 : DHCP,IPv6 and IPAM - Exploring DHCP (part 1)
- Windows Server 2012 : DHCP,IPv6 and IPAM - Understanding the Components of an Enterprise Network
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