Task 1: Determine the Number of Terminal Server Farms

Best practices suggest that a design should start with a single farm, and then add more farms only when required. Listed below are conditions that could require additional terminal server farms. Use this list to consider the number of additional farms that may be required:

  • Clients separated from the current farm by WAN speeds. If there are more users accessing the terminal server farm than the link back to the farm can accommodate, an additional terminal server farm may be placed at the remote location. In that case, make sure that the links from that farm to back-end services, such as databases that will be remote, have sufficient bandwidth. Alternatively, examine whether increasing the bandwidth ...

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