Summary
This chapter has discussed the essentials of setting up a terminal server infrastructure: terminal server, license server, and licenses. By now, you should be familiar with how terminal servers create sessions, validate user logons, and issue licenses to authorized users or computers. You should also know how to set up a license server to support that terminal server and make sure it remains available.
Best practices for terminal server configuration include:
Configure the terminal servers using Group Policy, not the Terminal Services Configuration tool. When adjusting settings on a per-server basis, it’s too easy to introduce inconsistencies among servers, and inconsistencies now may lead to a lot of troubleshooting later.
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