Microsoft Remote Desktop Services

Remote Desktop Services

Microsoft

November 2013

Who?

Technology Consulting and Support

Content Developer, Technical Reviewer

Presenter, RDS, Hyper-V, System Center

JWUG Event co-ordinator

Ronnie Isherwood MBCS, MCT, MCITP

R I Technology Ltd @virtualfat

Agenda

• Introduction Desktop Delivery Technologies

• What are Remote Desktops Services (RDS)?

• What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)?

• What about applications?

• Key challenges

• Management and Monitoring

• Education

Introduction

• IT Departments are responsible for the datacentre, desktop, application,

workplace mobility and device strategy. A desktop delivery strategy will

be closely tied to the application strategy.

• Desktop delivery technology has evolved considerably in the last ten

years and now more than ever the number of options and complexity

can be overwhelming.

• Today’s session focus is Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is to help

navigate the desktop delivery technology and options from Microsoft.

• There is no single right choice for desktops…

• Or is there?

What are Remote Desktop Services?

• Session-based presentation virtualization segment

of Microsoft’s virtualization technologies

• Enables centralized application management

• Helps keep the data in the datacenter

• Has proved to be very popular in the Jersey

markets address bandwidth and satellite offices.

• Provides connection brokering for Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure (VDI)

Remote

Desktop

Session Hosts

RDSH

What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

• Server based virtual desktops underpin VDI, there are two

RD Virtualization

Host

RDVH

What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

• Provides virtual machine-based, centralized desktops for individual users that can be fully customized based on user profiles

• Allows users to perform specialized tasks that require administrator access to their desktop

• Enables users to access their personalized desktop from any computer while retaining the last saved state

Personal

Virtual

Desktop

What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

• Provides virtual machine-based, centralized desktops based on a pool of virtual machines that are shared by multiple users

• Allows users to perform standardized routine tasks and have access to common applications (such as Microsoft Office)

• Rolls back the state upon logoff to provide a “clean” desktop for the next user’s session, but the previous user’s state can be saved offline

Pooled

Virtual

Desktop

RD Web

Access

RD GatewayRD Connection

Broker

Active

Directory®

Licensing

Server

RD Virtualization

Host

RD Session Host

with RemoteApp

RD Client

System Center

and App-V

Remote Desktop Services and VDI Architecture

Key Challenges

Performance:

Login times and general application performance should be consistent

(they only notice when it’s not good!) Network bandwidth and latency

User Experience (UK):

Multiple devices, multiple locations, one experience.

Application Compatibility:

Application X interferes with application Y, application Z only works with

legacy OS.

User Density:

The number of users per virtual machine or physical server, greater

Systems and User Management:

Simplified management tools for administrators.

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Helps ensure high performance across user virtual machines and sessions

Apply to both sessions and virtual machines

Dynamically distributes resources (bandwidth, CPU, and I/O)

I/O

User Profile Disk

Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or sessions

Store user data and settings on a separate virtual hard disk

Simplify deployment of lower-cost VDIs (pooled virtual machines and sessions)

VDI Session Host

Personalization with User Profile Disk

User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine collections

User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections

What should I deploy?

User Profile DiskWith every virtual machine pool and remote desktop session host collection

User environment virtualizationTo apply roaming settings across collections

Folder RedirectionTo apply roaming user data across collections To centralize user data backup

BenefitsAvailable with pooled virtual machine collections and remote desktop session host collections

Stores all user settings and data

Contains roaming user profile, Folder Redirection cache, and user environment virtualization

Roams with user within collection

Appears as a local disk and improves application compatibility

The Rich User Experience

Dynamically detect

network conditions

and tune

experience

RemoteFX for

WAN

Enable access to

locally attached

devices in remote

desktops

USB

redirection

Support multitouch,

new Windows

Experience, and Start

menu/screen

integration

Seamless

experience

GPU

support

Support both

physical and

software GPUs

RemoteFX Over LAN or WAN

Hardware and software GPUs

Rich multimedia

USB redirection

Multitouch

WAN acceleration

Single sign-on

Corporate LAN

RemoteFX delivers a consistently richuser experience to users over LAN or WAN

(regardless of deployment model)

Internet or WAN

GPU Choices

• CPU-Emulated DirectX 11 software GPU provides 3D capabilities to

sessions and VMs at high scale

– Optimized for knowledge worker workloads, such as Office, Web Browsing

– Highest scale for Session Host and VDI

• RemoteFX vGPU provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11

GPU for VDI, optimized for

– Best performance for 3D graphics-intensive applications

– Best experience with full shading, animations and transitions

– Best application compatibility, running as a console session in VM

What’s new for RDS in Server 2012 R2?

Dynamically

Add/Remove

monitors

Improved

RemoteApp

behavior

Quick

Reconnect

DX11.1 support

and improved

Codec

performance

Management (Group Policy)

Management (Server Manager)

Management (Server Manager)

Monitoring (System Center!)

Remote Desktop Services

Education

Course 20415B: Implementing a Desktop Infrastructure

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/course.aspx?id=20415b

Course 20416B: Implementing Desktop Application Environnements

https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/course.aspx?ID=20416B

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Remote Desktop Services

Summary

Don’t focus on products or vendors! Focus on users, performance,

monitoring and training for staff! Make sure the solution works well every

year and doesn’t degrade over time.

Links

Remote Desktop Service Diagnostic Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40890

Remote Desktop Service Tech Center

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee236407

GPU Requirements for Remote FX

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2013/11/05/gpu-requirements-for-remotefx-on-

windows-server-2012-r2.aspx

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Thanks for listening

Thank you!@virtualfat

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