Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure eBook

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Table of Contents Overview ............................................................. ................................................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................. ........................................3 Pre-requisites ............................................................. ................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ............................. 3 Hyper-V Server Configuration ........................................................................................ ........................................................................................................................................... ................................................... 4 Configuring Windows 7 Virtual Machine ......................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................... ............................. 5 Installing VDI Roles............................................................ ............................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ............................. 6 Configure the Session Host Redirector ................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................. .......................... 9 Configuring the Remote Desktop Session Broker ........................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................... 11 RD Web Access Server ............................................................. ................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................... ............. 12 RD Session Host.................................................. Host..................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................... ...................................... 13 Display Name .............................................................................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 RD Virtualization Host Servers ................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................... ................................................. 14 Configure For Personal Desktops .................................................................... ................................................................................................................................ ............................................................ 14 Configure a Virtual Desktop Pool ............................................................................... ................................................................................................................................ ................................................. 16 Configure RD Web Access .................................................................................. ............................................................................................................................................... ............................................................. 18 Testing your VDI Setup................................................................. ....................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................... ............. 19









Overview Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a set of servers and services that when combined together provide your users with access to virtual desktops. The servers involved in Microsoft VDI are: 

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

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Remote Desktop Session Broker

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Remote Desktop Host Redirector

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Remote Desktop Web Access

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Remote Desktop Virtualization Host

This eBook will go through step by step how to setup the services required for Microsoft VDI as detailed above with the exception of installing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V An assumption is made that you already understand how to setup Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V, if you are unsure then you can find information on my blog at www.edutechnow.com

Pre-requisites To start this step by step you must already have at least one server running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed and at least one o ne Windows 7 virtual machine installed. You will also need another server that is going to provide all of the other VDI services, for this guide I will call this the VDI server









Hyper-V Server Configuration As explained in the prerequisites you should have a server setup with Hyper-V and at least 1 Windows 7 virtual machine, we now need to setup this server for VDI From Server Manager click on Add Roles, select Remote Desktop Services and click Next

In the Role Services select Remote Desktop Virtualization Host and click Next

Finally click Install on the summary screen









Configuring Windows 7 Virtual Machine As default the Windows 7 virtual machines are not configured to accept remote desktop connections, to configure them you will need to run a PowerShell script which can be downloaded from here Save the script as Configure-VirtualMachine.ps1 to a folder on the virtual machines and run the following commands from that folder in PowerShell Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned –force .\Configure-VirtualMachine.ps1 –RDVHost domain\HyperVServer –RDUsers domain\domain users” –RDUsers “domain\ Note:

Replace the text domain with your domain name and the text HyperVServer with HyperVServer with the name of your Hyper-V server Once the script completes successfully your Windows 7 Virtual machine will be configured for VDI access









Installing VDI Roles On the VDI server open up Server Manager and bring up the Roles screen

Click on Add Roles, from the selection list choose Remote Desktop Services and click Next

Click Next on the introduction screen On the Select Role Services screen we need to select the following services and click Next 

Remote Desktop Session Host

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Remote Desktop Connection Broker

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Remote Desktop Web Access











Click Next on the compatibility screen The next screen requires you to set the authentication method. Your choice will depend on the version of Remote Desktop Connection client being used

You will now need to specify the licensing mode, for now we are going to configure it later









You now need to select the users that will have access to the server, in this case I have selected Domain Users, that way all of our users will have access to the Windows 7 virtual machines

As the users are going to be accessing Windows 7 virtual machines we don’t need to set any of the client experience

settings

After clicking Next you will get some screens on the web server settings, you may keep all the default settings and









Configure the Session Host Redirector We need to now configure the server to redirect all incoming requests, the first step is to add the server to the correct groups on the local server Open Server Manager and navigate to Configuration | Local Users and Groups | Groups

Double click the Session Broker Computers group and add the VDI server

Now open up Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration









From the main window double click the RD Connection Broker link

Click on Change Settings

Select Virtual Machine Redirection , enter the name of the Session Broker server in the text box and click OK twice (Click Yes at the intermediate pop up window)









Configuring the Remote Desktop Session Broker The next step in the process is to setup the Session Broker, to do this launch the Remote Desktop Connection Manager

The main screen should look like this











RD Web Access Server Click on Add next to the RD Web Access Servers line

Add the name of the server to the text box and click Add and OK The red cross should now turn to a green tick We just need to check that the right servers have been added to the right groups o n the local server Open Server Manager and expand the Configuration node so that you can see the Local Users and Groups









RD Session Host Click Configure on the RD Session Host server for redirection line Enter the name of the VDI server in the text box and click Apply

We aren’t going to use any old RDC versions so click OK

Display Name The Display Name isn’t a critical element of the setup but let’s change it anyway. Click Change on the relevant line

and enter the names you would like to use for the relevant elements









RD Virtualization Host Servers Click on Add on the RD Virtualization Host servers line and type in the name of the Hyper-V server

Clicking Add will add the server and take you to the host servers screen

The Total Virtual Machines will show as zero, to refresh this click on the server in the middle section of the screen and click Refresh

Configure For Personal Desktops While this wizard is designed to configure the VDI server for personal desktops we are going to r un it but skip the personal desktops setting Click on Configure on the top line









You now need to configure the redirection settings, if the server does not already appear in the screen then add it to the Server name text box and click Next

The next screen should automatically select the RD Web Access server, if not then simply add the server name and click Next









Configure a Virtual Desktop Pool From the Actions menu of the RD Connection Manager select Create Virtual Desktop Pool

Click Next on the welcome screen, you should now see a screen that lists the virtual machines on your Hyper-V server











Configure the Digital Certificate Click on Specify on the Digital Certificate line









Configure RD Web Access From a web browser navigate to the fully qualified domain name of your VDI server









Testing your VDI Setup From a web browser navigate to the fully qualified domain name of your VDI server









Click on Connect and if prompted enter the username and password o f the domain user account again

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