Remote Desktop Services - issues with new set up test

Question

i wonder if anyone could assist

the issue i have is how can i port forward to a cluster and get rds to work? , if i port forward to one server and it goes down the whole deployment is down, so i need to port forward to a cluster so that it is aware if one server say App1 is down to use the other one App2.

Answer 1

Hello @James Walls

Could you please provide the RDS overview screenshot like below? And what's the OS version of your server?

Often there may be proxy settings, firewall, routing, DNS issues, etc., that will block proper communication between client and RD Gateway.

On the firewall, TCP port 443 and UDP port 3391 need to be forwarded to the RDG server.

The FQDN you use needs to match the name on the certificate used for the RD Gateway, and the certificate must be trusted by the client PC.

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Best Regards
Karlie

Answer 2

James

when building an RDS Farm controlled by connection Brokers, you don't use NLB for the Session hosts.

it would have been far better for you to build your farm as follows;

1 x CB, GW, WA, License Server
2 x RDSH

i.e. keep the Session Hosts dedicated, and put all the other roles onto a single server.
you'd then create a NAT rule on your firewall to forward TCP 443 to the CB/GW/WA server

The CB/GW/WA roles are normally rock solid so there's no real need to create one than one of them for a small deployment. You'd normally build multiple CBs/GWs/WAs for a large deployment only, to handle the load. The only time I've seen issues with the GW/WA roles is when using HTML5/Web Clients, and that's to do with sessions not properly disconnecting.

Regards

Ken Z

Answer 3

Answer 4

i also notice that the 2x services don't seem to start when rebooted. this would affect the servers if one were to go down would it not?

or is this the correct behaviour?

Answer 5

server OS is server 2016