If you want to restrict access to your Remote Access Gateway and add pre-authentication for remote access, you can roll it out through Web Application Proxy. This is a really good way to make sure you have rich pre-authentication for RDG including MFA. Publishing without pre-authentication is also an option and provides a single point of entry into your systems.

Setting up a RDS Farm is not that hard but anyway I created a step by step guide to build a Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services deployment.

there is a new feature in the Windows Server 2016 RDS : Full OpenGL support with RDS for VDI scenarios.

And Yes you can use the Quickstart but I’m not using this in this demo setup. I tried to do a complete setup,but doing this I noticed that I’m constantly expanding this demo with new options so. I’ll keep this pure to the setup and some PowerShell basics.

Quick Start is an option in RDS deployment during the process of adding roles and features with Windows Server 2012 Service Manager. It dramatically simplifies the deployment process and shortens go-to-market while still providing the ability to add additional RDS servers as needed. The abstraction formed by RDWA, RDCB, and RDSH offers such elegancy…