Terminal Service Configuration

Here is a test box which I configured for Terminal Services and had a couple of users running on, I found it a little hard to find step by step instructions so here are mine:-

Open the Server Manager and right-click on roles, select Add Roles from the context menu

Click next on the Before You Being page to bring up a list of Roles that can be installed, select Remote Desktop Services and click next

On the Introduction to Remote Desktop Services page click next, this will bring you to the Role Services page, select the Remote Desktop Session Host as well as the Remote Desktop Licensing Service and then click next.

When you get to the application compatibility page it tells you that you should install the Session Host Role before you install your applications, just click next as we have not yet installed our applications.

You are then asked if you want to require NLA, this will only allow Windows clients to connect to the Remote Desktop Session Host Server, in addition they must be running a Remote Desktop Client that support Network Level Authentication. I will go ahead and require NLA and then click next.

We are using a Per User CAL

At the “Select User Group Allowed Access”, We have added the “TEST RDP” group into the user group who will have access to this Terminal Server:-

Because at the point of building the server and writing this document, we are not sure how the user will be using the server, we have enabled everything:-

Because the server is configured with Windows 2008 R2 we don’t need to configure a discovery scope, click “Next”:-

Confirm the installation and click “Install”:-

Installation will begin.

You will probably need to reboot the server:-

Once the reboot has completed click “close”

Once the install is complete you will need to activate the server, goto:-

Start > Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Licensing Manager

Right click on the Server name and select “Activate Server”

Click Next on the Welcome to the Active Server Wizard

Take the defaults and click “next” on the “Connection Method” Page

Enter the details and click “Next” on the next 2 pages

Click ok on the next page and this will launch “Welcome to the Install Licenses Wizard” … Click “Next”

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