Setup Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2

Setup Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2

RDS allows you to remove the repetitiveness of configuring and managing multiple PCs in multiple location.  In one way you can think of a RDS solution for your business as a multi-user “PC”. This means, you will be able to access your desktop from home or any branch office or on the go because you can access securely through Internet.

Let see how to install and setup RDS server in Win 2012R2

Installing RDS Roles

RDS have three core roles. we can installs and run on a single server or separate each role onto its own server.

For small environment we can run RDS all-in-one setup, this would save you hardware resources. 

If your environment is large you will have to run the roles in spread servers. 

To start open Server Manager then click Manager -> Add Roles and Features

On the next screen you will need to select 

Change the selection to Remote Desktop Services Installation then click Next

Click Quick Start setup you can add additional servers to each role to allow expansion

Change selection to Session-based desktop deployment and click Next

Connection Broker, Web Access and Session Host roles will be installed on the single server. Click Next

Restart the destination server automatically if required

Once finished click Close. Remote Desktop Services is now installed!

Migrating DHCP

Migrating DHCP from Server 2012R2 to server 2016

IPv4 SUBNETTING

IPv4 SUBNETTING 

Given network Address 192.168.1.0/24, you have been asked to use the given network address to do the subneting and configure the network.

Step 1: Always you need to start with the Highest IP requirement, so the highest IP requirement is 30.

Calculating network address of each network from the given classful lP address is called VLSM.

To find the classless IP network we have to first find the required host bits.

2ⁿ -2 ³REQUIRED IP      ( n is number of host bits)

2ⁿ -2 ³30

2ⁿ ³30+2

2ⁿ ³32

2ⁿ  ³2⁵

n=5

so required number of host bits = 5

that’s bring the subnet mask bits to à 32-5=27

so the network address of first network is 192.168.1.0/27

Since the network address is 192.168.1.0/27 , we should be able to find the first and last IP address in this network.

To find the first IP address, we need to convert the IP address to binary format and change all the host bits to zero (0)

192.168.1.0

11000000.10101000.00000001.00000000 (Binary format) in this first 27 bits are assigned to network and the last 5 bits assigned to Host.

11000000.10101000.00000001.000|00000, we could see all the host bits are zero so this is the first IP address in this network, but this is also the network address. There for we cannot use this address to any end device, this address is used to identify the Network

Network Address = 192.168.1.0/27

Now we need to find the last IP address,

To find the last IP address change all the host bits to one (1)

11000000.10101000.00000001.000|00000 change the host bits to one

11000000.10101000.00000001.000|11111 when you convert this to Decimal we will get the Last IP address which is called broadcast address.

11000000 = 192

10101000= 168

00000001= 1

000|11111 = 31

So, the Broadcast IP address is 192.168.1.31/27

So we can conclude this as follows, for 30 IP address requirement, we need /27 network

Which has a range from 192.168.1.0/27 --- 192.168.1.31/27

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Now we need to calculate for the second biggest network

2ⁿ -2 ³REQUIRED IP      ( n is number of host bits)

2ⁿ -2 ³15

2ⁿ ³15+2

2ⁿ ³17 since its greater than or equal we can change this to closest 2 to the power number which is 32 (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256)

2ⁿ  ³32

2ⁿ  ³2⁵

n=5

so, required number of host bits = 5

that’s bring the subnet mask bits to à 32-5=27

so the network address of the second network is

we have used up to 31 , that’s mean we can start the next network from 32.

Network address is : 192.168.1.32/27

Now we need to find the last IP on this network, to do the calculation we will again convert this Network address to Binary

11000000.10101000.00000001.00100000

Last IP address has all the hosts bits set to one

11000000.10101000.00000001.001| 11111

which is 192.168.1.63 /27 in binary

so the range of the second network is 192.168.1.32/27 --- 192.168.1.63/27

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Now we can calculate the third network which has a requirement of 8 IP address

2ⁿ -2 ³REQUIRED IP      ( n is number of host bits)

2ⁿ -2 ³8

2ⁿ ³8+2

2ⁿ ³10  since its greater than or equal we can change this to closest 2 to the power number which is 16 (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256)

2ⁿ  ³16

2ⁿ  ³2⁴

n=4

so, required number of host bits = 4

that’s bring the subnet mask bits to à 32-4=28

so, the network address of the second network is

we have used up to 63, that’s mean we can start the next network from 64.

Network address is: 192.168.1.64/28

Now we need to find the last IP on this network, to do the calculation we will again convert this Network address to Binary

11000000.10101000.00000001.0100|0000

Last IP address has all the hosts bits set to one

11000000.10101000.00000001.0100|1111

which is 192.168.1.79 /28 in binary

so the range of the second network is 192.168.1.64/28 --- 192.168.1.79/28

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similar way we need to calculate to N12,N23,N13, but in this network we need only 2 IP address.

How to create roaming user profile ?

How to create roaming user profile ?

We can create roaming profile in 2 different way depends on our need.

1. From Active directory users and computers.
2. From Group policy.

But for both process we need to have a shared location where profiles need to save. And also securing shared location we need to change security permission.

For shared location we create a folder named Roaming profile then right click to the folder name and click on properties.

Go to Properties and Sharing

Click Share this Folder and change the Permissions

Click add and add the following as in the screenshot

Then go and change the permissions

Everyone Only Read Permission.

Domain Admin Full Control

Authenticated User with Read and Change Permission

Click OK.

Now go to security tab in Properties.

Disable the Inheritance.

We have done the sharing and ready to configure now the Roaming Profile

Lets do

Step 1

1. From Active directory users and computers.

Go to Users and Computers, and select the user you want to configure Roaming Profile.

Right click and go to Properties , Go to Profile Tab.

In Profile Path give your shared folders path with %username%

Type 1:

Type 2 :  Find the shared path from the Network Path and copy it.

Using the copied shared network path with %username%

Thats all. we are done.

Method 2:

Using GPO

Create a new Group Policy under  Domains and Edit it.

Go to  Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->administrative Templates->System->User Profiles.

Enable Set roaming profile path for all users logging into this computer and provide the shared location with %username% then click OK.

Also enable Add the Administrators security group to roaming profiles.

All Done........

Configure Shared office365 MailBox on iPhone Mail app

start setting up a normal exchange account , put your shared email address in the username and you main email account password.

Open Settings

Open "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"

Choose "Add Account..."

Choose "Other"

On the next screen, select "Add Mail Account"

it will fail to do the auto-discover thing , but when you click on continue it eil allow you to manually enter the details :

Name : Hello

email : your shared email a/c address  i.e hello@test.com 

description :

incoming mail

Host name : outlook.office365.com

username : your main email address / shared i.e  Saththiyan@test.com/hello 

password : your main account password; i.e password of Saththiyan@test.com

outgoing mail server:

SMTP : smtp.office365.com

username : saththiyan@test.com

password : your main account password, password of Saththiyan@test.com

use ssl 

authentication : Password

Remote Desktop Profile keep deleting.

I have noticed one issue with RDS service. I created a user and noticed that the user kept me asking twice to configure his email account as it disappeared suddenly.

went through some troubleshooting and found that the user profile is missing under C:\Users on my RDS server user profile.

As per the google search it's a bug in RDS and the way to troubleshoot is deleting registry entry and login again. Even i was able to noticed that the specific user profile was in registry with ".bak"

 the registry to delete is , Just right click and delete the Key and log in the user again.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

After i logged in i was able to see the registry with out .bak and now i could be able to see that the user profile is in my Users drive.

Thanks.
Sathi