In the next two blogposts I want to describe how you can create a cloud-only RDS environment with using as much Azure PaaS services as possible. In these two blogposts I want to focus on setting up a RDS environment based on Windows Server 2016 and using Azure AD Domain Services, Azure AD Application Proxy and Azure SQL Database. The support for these Azure PaaS services is added in Windows Server 2016. So this blogpost is not compatible with earlier versions of RDS. This blogpost will focus on setting up the virtual networks, virtual network peering and the Azure Active Directory including Domain Services. The second blogpost will focus on deploying the RDS environment in this newly created environment.
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Publish your RDS environment with Azure AD Application Proxy – Part 3
StandardThis is the last blogpost in the series of publishing your RDS environment with Azure AD Application Proxy. In the first post of this series I’ve described the steps needed to configure Azure AD Application Proxy pass-through authentication to publish a RDS environment. In the second post of this series I’ve focused on pre-authentication and explained the steps needed to configure pre-authentication for a RDS environment. In this last part of the series I’m focusing on High Availability of both the RD Web and RD Gateway roles and the Azure AD Application Proxy. I’m ending the series with sharing some excellent guidance provided by Microsoft of designing your Azure AD Application Proxy environment.
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Remote Publishing of Remote Desktop Services environments
StandardLast week Microsoft announced publishing Remote Desktop Services environments through Azure AD Application Proxy. You can read the announcement here. With the Azure AD Application Proxy you can now publish your RD Gateway and RD Web Access Servers using Azure Active Directory authentication. Ofcourse we can also use an on premise Web Application/ADFS environment to publish our Remote Desktop Service environments. In this blogpost I want to show and describe both solutions on a high-level. With these solutions we are able to publish Remote Desktop Services environments with using the rich functionality of Azure AD authentication.