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Creating a Remote Desktop Session Collection RDS 2012

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Creating and configuring a remote desktop Session collection for Remote Desktop Services

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In this post, I will be showing you how to create a Remote Desktop Session Collection. Before you are able to create a Desktop Session connection you will need to have installed the Remote Desktop Services Roles as shown in the previous post on deploying an RDS 2012 single-server session-based deployment.

Creating a Remote Desktop Session Collection RDS 2012

Tasks > Create Session Collection

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Enter collection name and descripton.

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Add the Session Host servers to the collection.

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specify the user group that require access.

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Specify a location for the profile disks and Maximum size, if you are wanting to use UPD's. In this demonstration I will be using a local directory, but for production environments i would recommended to use a file share.

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