This content. In this article we’ll show how enable the RD Web Access password reset option on Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server farm on Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2. Arriving as part of the coming wave of. You cannot switch. Working with RD Web Access in Windows Server 2. R2 – RDS Gurus. Introduction to RD Web Access. So far in this series we have talked about how to successfully deploy and manage a Microsoft Windows Server 2. VDI environment. But the overall success of your deployment will be measured by end- user satisfaction. Providing an easy path for users to easily discover the resources available to them is essential. This is where RD Web Access comes into play. You publish these resources, and RD Web Access makes them easily discoverable for end users in these ways: On the RD Web Access web site. In the Start Menu of Windows 7 and Windows 8 clients that have the Remote. Apps and Desktop Connections (RADC) configured. See more about RADC in the “RADC and Windows 8” section. In the modern Remote Desktop app on Windows 8 clients that have RADC configured. In this article, we’ll look at how publishing works, what’s new in Windows Server 2. Modern Remote Desktop Connection application, and how to customize RD Web Access. How Publishing Works. At a high level, here’s how the pieces work together. You use RDMS to publish resources for the collection (recalling that a collection consists of homogenous servers). RD Connection Broker keeps track of all available resources. Exchange 2016 is latest version of Email server from Microsoft. Here, I will show steps to Install Exchange 2016 in Windows Server 2012 R2. The RD Web Access role service queries RD Connection Broker for all available resources and RD Connection Broker returns the results. RD Web Access takes that data and produces two data streams: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) data that RD Web Access web portal displays as web pages. An Extensible Markup Language (XML) feed consumed by Remote. Apps and Desktop Connections (a Control Panel applet available on Windows 7 and Windows 8 clients) or by the modern Remote Desktop app on Windows 8 clients. Figure 1: RD Web Access queries RD Connection Broker for a list of available resources and makes them available to end users through its web portal and by RADC. Links to RDP files that will open each available resource appear on the RD Web Access web portal and on RADC configured client Windows 7 Start Menus, Windows 8 Start Screens and the modern Remote Desktop app accordingly. So far, that’s very similar to publishing applications in Windows Server 2. R2. That’s a bit deceptive, though: through a simplified architecture, RD Web Access now makes it easier to publish and discover applications. What’s new for RD Web Access in Windows Server 2. In Windows 2. 01. Test Lab Guide: Install Exchange Server 2013 on the Windows 2012 R2 Base Configuration. SQL Server 2012 is available in 32-bit and 64-bit. In this post, I will show steps to install SQL Server 2012 in Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows Server 2012, codenamed "Windows Server 8", is the sixth release of Windows Server. It is the server version of Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server 2008 R2. RD Web Access has been updated in many ways. We will first look at some general design changes to the role service and then we will focus on portal specific and RADC specific changes. Overall design changes include: You install RD Web Access to one or multiple servers from RDMSRD Web Access now only queries RD Connection Broker for available resources. RD Web Access is now the only Remote. App delivery mechanism offered (no more creating MSI and RDP files in Remote. App Manager)You now configure RD Web Access SSL certificates from a central location – RDMSInstall RD Web Access From RDMSJust like all other RDS role services in Windows Server 2. RD Web Access using RDMS on your deployment server to one or multiple destination servers. Open RDMS, and click on the RD Web Access plus sign icon in the Deployment Overview section (shown in Figure 2). Figure 2: Start installing RD Web Access by clicking the RD Web Access plus sign icon in the Deployment Overview section of RDMS. This starts the Add RD Web Access Servers wizard. Then click the Add button. We will cover installing RDS role services using Power. Shell in a later article. RD Web Access Queries RD Connection Broker Only. If you have used RD Web Access on Windows Server 2. R2, you know that to configure the RD Web Access web portal to show available resources, you logged on as an administrator, selected the Administration tab and provided the name of a server(s) to query for available resources. The Administration tab on the web portal is no longer needed and is gone. New Remote. App Publishing Methods. In Windows 2. 00. R2 you could deliver Remote. Apps three ways: The RD Web Access web portal. Remote. App and Desktop Connections (RADC) on Windows 7 clients made Remote. Apps appear in the user’s Start Menu by connecting with the XML feed. Use Remote. App Manager on your RD Session Host servers to create . MSI or . RDP files. You would distribute these files to clients (via Group Policy for MSI files or file share for RDP files). In Windows Server 2. MSI or RDP files using the Remote. App Manager UI is no longer an option – Remote. App Manager is gone. Now you deliver Remote. Apps through the RD Web Access web portal, RADC (also available for Windows 8) or through the modern Remote Desktop app, which you can download from the Microsoft store on Windows 8 machines. The modern Remote Desktop app performs the same function as RADC: it puts Remote. App icons alongside your other applications. It also leverages the XML feed to get the application data. However, you cannot remove or manually refresh the feed source using the modern application. To remove or manually refresh the signup, use the RADC Control Panel applet. Certificate Management with RDMSCertificate Management for RD Web Access has also been simplified in Windows 2. In 2. 00. 8 R2 if you wanted to secure your RD Web Access Website you had to manually install a certificate on the server and then add the certificate in IIS for the website (or script these processes). In Windows 2. 01. SSL certificates to RD Web Access servers using RDMS on your deployment server. Add the certificate to the Deployment Properties / Certificates tab / RD Web Access role service entry in RDMS and RDMS deploys the certificate to the RD Web Access server and binds the certificate to the default website in IIS. If you have multiple RD Web Access servers, RDMS deploys the certificate to all of them when you configure the RDMS deployment setting. RD Web Access Web Portal Changes in 2. We’ve told you that the RD Web Access portal no longer has the Administration tab it used to in Windows 2. R2. Here are a few other changes to the RD Web Access web portal in Windows Server 2. Web Single Sign- On is enabled by default for RDP 8 clients. Resources can be grouped into folders. The web portal now functions on other browsers (not just Internet Explorer)Web SSO by Default. With Windows Server 2. R2 you could configure Web Single Sign- on (Web SSO) to launch Remote. Apps from RD Web Access; you logged on once to the RD Web Access web portal and no additional logon was required to launch a published Remote. App. However, many conditions needed to be met in order for Web SSO to work. With Windows Server 2. Web Single Sign- On works without configuration so long as both the RD Connection Broker and RD Session Host are running Windows Server 2. RDP version 8 (available on Windows 7 and Windows 8). Note: If these requirements cannot be met, you can still configure Web- SSO the same way you did in Windows Server 2. R2. Organize Resources in Folders. In Windows 2. 00. R2 all available Remote. Apps and full desktop links appeared on the RD Web Access in the alphabetical order, Remote. Apps first, then full desktop connections next. You could not group any of the resources or arrange them in any way. This was inconvenient for users with lots of Remote. Apps as it could be hard to find the right icons. In Windows Server 2. Remote Apps and Desktops into folders that display on the RD Web Access portal. To create a new folder, open RDMS and then open the properties of a previously created Remote. App. Add a new name to the Remote. App Program Folder drop- down menu (shown in Figure 3), or select an existing folder from the list. Figure 3: Create a new folder by adding a new name to the Remote. App Program Folder drop- down menu. The folder will show up in RD Web Access as shown in Figure 4. The resources in it will appear when you click to open the folder. Figure 4: You can group Remote. Apps and Full desktop connections into folders on the RD Web Access portal. Folders work outside of RD Web Access, too. The modern Remote Desktop app shows folders as new columns instead of actual folders. The name of the folder is the column heading and grouped resources appear under the corresponding column as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5: The Remote Desktop Modern UI shows RD Web Access web portal subfolders as new columns. Password Reset Available for Users. In Windows Server 2. It is disabled by default but you can enable it by configuring Internet Information Services (IIS) on the server running RD Web Access. To enable the RD Web Access password reset option: Open IIS on your RD Web Access server and browse to Sites / Default Web Site / RDWeb / Pages. Select Application Settings. Open the Password. Change. Enabled setting and change the value to True. Now, when a user tries to logon to RD Web Access supplying an expired password RD Web Access will redirect that user to the password. TIP: User’s passwords don’t have to be expired in order to reset their passwords using the password. You can make the password reset functionality permanently available from the login page by adding a hyperlink to the password. To do this,Open the login. Notepad and find this code: < table width=”3. New in Windows Server 2. Active. X control is no longer required to use the portal. This means you can now use browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to use the portal. The actual experience you get when you access the portal from different browsers varies slightly, but all browsers will allow you to at least download an RDP file, open it, enter your credentials and launch the Remote. App or Full desktop connection. Here are two major differences in the portal experience using IE versus other browsers: Internet Explorer is still the only browser that supports Web SSO. This is because Web SSO still requires Active. X. Without Active. X, RD Web Access falls back to downloading RDP files and users will be prompted for credentials.
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