Creating a Windows RDS farm in Horizon

This section will discuss the steps that are required to create a linked clone based RDS farm in Horizon. An RDS farm is a collection of Windows RDS servers, and serves as the point of integration between the Connection Server and the individual applications installed on each RDS server. Additionally, key settings concerning client session handling and client connection protocols are set at the RDS farm level within Horizon.

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Many of the options seen in this section are similar to those seen when deploying linked clone desktops in  Chapter 10, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools . Owing to this, not every setting will be explained like it was in that chapter. Refer to Chapter 10, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools ...

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