How it works...

We can follow this recipe to get our first simple RDS environment up-and-running. Our server will now allow users to connect and access virtual sessions that are hosted right on this RDS1 server. To log in, users may either launch the Remote Desktop Connection tool on their client computer and type in the RDS1 name of our server or open up a web browser and head over to https://rds1/rdweb. Either way, they will land inside a desktop session that looks and feels pretty similar to a Windows 10 desktop. Inside this desktop provided by the RDS server, they are able to launch applications and save documents, having everything run and stored right on the server itself rather than their local desktop computers. From this simple, ...

Get Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.