11. Step 7: Design the Farm

Terminal servers in a farm need to be serving the same published applications and be configured the same way. This ensures that users receive the same experience no matter which terminal server they connect to.

Each terminal server farm contains a unique set of applications and users. The behavior of those users in the application can be quite varied. For these reasons, capacity planning and testing is necessary for each terminal server farm.

There are many variables involved in moving a set of applications that are running on client computers to instead run on terminal servers. The goal here is to arrive at a reasonable estimate of capacity without requiring excessive modeling and precision. Implement the first ...

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