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Make sure your Remote Desktop deployment has an RD Gateway, an RD Connection Broker, and RD Web Access running on Windows Server 2016 or 2019. Make sure your deployment is configured for per-user client access licenses (CALs) instead of per-device, otherwise all licenses will be consumed. Install the Windows 10 KB4025334 update on the RD Gateway. Later cumulative updates may already contains this KB. Oct 22, 2019 To connect to desktops and RemoteApps with SSO through the inbox Remote Desktop Connection client on Windows, you must connect to the RD Web page through Internet Explorer. The following configuration options are required on the server side.

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Applies to: Windows Server (Semi-Annual Channel), Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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End users can connect to internal network resources securely from outside the corporate firewall through RD Gateway.

  1. Configure Mac to use Remote Desktop Gateway. Before you begin you will need to download and install the Mac version of the Remote Desktop Gateway from the Apple app store. It is available here. Launch the Remote Desktop App. Click the New button; Select Gateway drop down and choose add a gateway; Create a new Gateway Make sure the Gateway tab is selected.
  2. You can specify different timeout properties on the RD Gateway servers to maintain the security of the environment in case the user walks away from the device. You can find additional details on the overall architecture of a Remote Desktop Services deployment in the.
  3. Select this option if you use RD Web Access on a public computer. Be sure to log off when you have finished using RD Web Access and close all windows to end your session. Select this option if you are the only person who uses this computer. Your server will allow a longer period of inactivity before logging you off.

Regardless of how you configure the desktops for your end-users, you can easily plug the RD Gateway into the connection flow for a fast, secure connection. For end-users connecting through published feeds, you can configure the RD Gateway property as you configure the overall deployment properties. For end-users connecting through to their desktops without a feed, they can easily add the name of the organization's RD Gateway as a connection property no matter which Remote Desktop client application they use.

The three primary purposes of the RD Gateway, in the order of the connection sequence, are:

  1. Establish an encrypted SSL tunnel between the end-user's device and the RD Gateway Server: In order to connect through any RD Gateway server, the RD Gateway server must have a certificate installed that the end-user's device recognizes. In testing and proofs of concepts, self-signed certificates can be used, but only publicly trusted certificates from a certificate authority should be used in any production environment.
  2. Authenticate the user into the environment: The RD Gateway uses the inbox IIS service to perform authentication, and can even utilize the RADIUS protocol to leverage multi-factor authentication solutions such as Azure MFA. Aside from the default policies created, you can create additional RD Resource Authorization Policies (RD RAPs) and RD Connection Authorization Policies (RD CAPs) to more specifically define which users should have access to which resources within the secure environment.
  3. Pass traffic back and forth between the end-user's device and the specified resource: The RD Gateway continues to perform this task for as long as the connection is established. You can specify different timeout properties on the RD Gateway servers to maintain the security of the environment in case the user walks away from the device.

You can find additional details on the overall architecture of a Remote Desktop Services deployment in the desktop hosting reference architecture.

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Applies To: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019

When it comes to supported configurations for Remote Desktop Services environments, the largest concern tends to be version interoperability. Most environments include multiple versions of Windows Server - for example, you may have an existing Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS deployment but want to upgrade to Windows Server 2016 to take advantage of the new features (like support for OpenGLOpenCL, Discrete Device Assignment, or Storage Spaces Direct). The question then becomes, which RDS components can work with different versions and which need to be the same?

So with that in mind, here are basic guidelines for supported configurations of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server.

Note

Make sure to review the system requirements for Windows Server 2016 and system requirements for Windows Server 2019.

Best practices

  • Use Windows Server 2019 for your Remote Desktop infrastructure (the Web Access, Gateway, Connection Broker, and license server). Windows Server 2019 is backward-compatible with these components, which means a Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2012 R2 RD Session Host can connect to a 2019 RD Connection Broker, but not the other way around.

  • For RD Session Hosts - all Session Hosts in a collection need to be at the same level, but you can have multiple collections. You can have a collection with Windows Server 2016 Session Hosts and one with Windows Server 2019 Session Hosts.

  • If you upgrade your RD Session Host to Windows Server 2019, also upgrade the license server. Remember that a 2019 license server can process CALs from all previous versions of Windows Server, down to Windows Server 2003.

  • Follow the upgrade order recommended in Upgrading your Remote Desktop Services environment.

  • If you are creating a highly available environment, all of your Connection Brokers need to be at the same OS level.

RD Connection Brokers

Windows Server 2016 removes the restriction for the number of Connection Brokers you can have in a deployment when using Remote Desktop Session Hosts (RDSH) and Remote Desktop Virtualization Hosts (RDVH) that also run Windows Server 2016. The following table shows which versions of RDS components work with the 2016 and 2012 R2 versions of the Connection Broker in a highly available deployment with three or more Connection Brokers.

3+ Connection Brokers in HARDSH or RDVH 2019RDSH or RDVH 2016RDSH or RDVH 2012 R2
Windows Server 2019 Connection BrokerSupportedSupportedSupported
Windows Server 2016 Connection BrokerN/ASupportedSupported
Windows Server 2012 R2 Connection BrokerN/AN/ANot Supported

Support for graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration

Remote Desktop Services support systems equipped with GPUs. Applications that require a GPU can be used over the remote connection. Additionally, GPU-accelerated rendering and encoding can be enabled for improved app performance and scalability.

Remote Desktop Services Session Hosts and single-session client operating systems can take advantage of the physical or virtual GPUs presented to the operating system in many ways, including the Azure GPU optimized virtual machine sizes, GPUs available to the physical RDSH server, RemoteFX vGPUs (Only on Windows Server 2016), and GPUs presented to the VMs by supported hypervisors.

See Which graphics virtualization technology is right for you? for help figuring out what you need. For specific information about DDA, check out Plan for deploying Discrete Device Assignment.

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GPU vendors may have a separate licensing scheme for RDSH scenarios or restrict GPU use on the server OS, verify the requirements with your favorite vendor.

GPUs presented by a non-Microsoft hypervisor or Cloud Platform must have drivers digitally-signed by WHQL and supplied by the GPU vendor.

Remote Desktop Session Host support for GPUs

The following table shows the scenarios supported by different versions of RDSH hosts.

FeatureWindows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Use of hardware GPU for all RDP sessionsNoYesYesYes
H.264/AVC hardware encoding (if suppported by the GPU)NoNoYesYes
Load balancing between multiple GPUs presented to the OSNoNoNoYes
H.264/AVC encoding optimizations for minimizing bandwidth usageNoNoNoYes
H.264/AVC support for 4K resolutionNoNoNoYes

VDI support for GPUs

The following table shows support for GPU scenarios in the client OS.

FeatureWindows 7 SP1Windows 8.1Windows 10
Use of hardware GPU for all RDP sessionsNoYesYes
H.264/AVC hardware encoding (if suppported by the GPU)NoNoWindows 10 1703 and later
Load balancing between multiple GPUs presented to the OSNoNoWindows 10 1803 and later
H.264/AVC encoding optimizations for minimizing bandwidth usageNoNoWindows 10 1803 and later
H.264/AVC support for 4K resolutionNoNoWindows 10 1803 and later

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RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter (vGPU) support

Remote Desktop Services supports RemoteFX vGPUs when VM is running as a Hyper-V guest on Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016. The following guest operating systems have RemoteFX vGPU support:

  • Windows 7 SP1
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10 1703 or later
  • Windows Server 2016 in a single-session deployment only
  • Windows Server 2019 in a single-session deployment only

Discrete Device Assignment support

Remote Desktop Services supports Physical GPUs presented with Discrete Device Assignment from Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V hosts. See Plan for deploying Discrete Device Assignment for more details.

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VDI deployment – supported guest OSes

Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 RD Virtualization Host servers support the following guest OSes:

  • Windows 10 Enterprise
  • Windows 8.1 Enterprise
  • Windows 7 SP1 Enterprise

Note

  • Remote Desktop Services doesn't support heterogeneous session collections. The OSes of all VMs in a collection must be the same version.
  • You can have separate homogeneous collections with different guest OS versions on the same host.
  • The Hyper-V host used to run VMs must be the same version as the Hyper-V host used to create the original VM templates.

Single sign-on

Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 RDS supports two main SSO experiences:

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  • In-app (Remote Desktop application on Windows, iOS, Android, and Mac)
  • Web SSO

Using the Remote Desktop application, you can store credentials either as part of the connection info (Mac) or as part of managed accounts (iOS, Android, Windows) securely through the mechanisms unique to each OS.

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To connect to desktops and RemoteApps with SSO through the inbox Remote Desktop Connection client on Windows, you must connect to the RD Web page through Internet Explorer. The following configuration options are required on the server side. No other configurations are supported for Web SSO:

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  • RD Web set to Forms-Based Authentication (Default)
  • RD Gateway set to Password Authentication (Default)
  • RDS Deployment set to 'Use RD Gateway credentials for remote computers' (Default) in the RD Gateway properties

Note

Due to the required configuration options, Web SSO is not supported with smartcards. Users who login via smartcards might face multiple prompts to login.

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For more information about creating VDI deployment of Remote Desktop Services, check out Supported Windows 10 security configurations for Remote Desktop Services VDI.

Using Remote Desktop Services with application proxy services

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You can use Remote Desktop Services, except for the web client, with Azure AD Application Proxy. Remote Desktop Services does not support using Web Application Proxy, which is included in Windows Server 2016 and earlier versions.