Adding an additional RDSH server to your RDS environment

Most RDS implementations start out with a single server, or at least a single Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH). Once you have the roles established for successful connectivity here, it is a natural next step to add additional RDSH servers to accommodate more users. Or perhaps you want to segregate different types of users (and their applications) onto different RDSH servers. Whatever your reasoning, chances are that at some point you will want to add additional servers into your RDS environment. Let's add a second server to ours so that you can see how this process works.

Getting ready

We have a single RDS server online, running Windows Server 2012 R2. It is named RDS-01 and is already performing ...

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