Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Drain Remote Desktop connections when performing scheduled maintenance on an RD Session Host server.

• When an RD Session Host server or virtual machine is due for an operating system upgrade, if possible replace the server with a clean build and test all applications, instead of performing in-place upgrades to avoid server or application failures.

• Place your RD Session Host and RD Virtualization Host servers where they can be readily accessed by the clients that will primarily be using them.

• Whenever possible, choose applications that have been tested and certified by the vendor to run on Windows Server 2012 RDS.

• For optimum performance for multitiered applications, ...

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