Planning for Networking Requirements

To keep Remote Desktop sessions running efficiently, adequate available network bandwidth is a must. In addition, it’s important to remember that a Remote Desktop session not only requires network access to the RD Session Host, but might need access to other servers depending on the application being used. For optimum performance for multitiered applications, install two or more network cards on an RD Session Host server and either configure the server to use one exclusively for Remote Desktop session connectivity and the others for back-end server communication or consider leveraging teaming technology to aggregate the bandwidth provided by all the network cards.

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