In the voice of Professor Farnsworth “Good news everybody”! I’ve finally left my old IT consulting job to finally go full time as cloud services manager with a good friend of mine at his company (shameless plus, however he does help keep the lights on for this site) after working with him on a project basis over the last 6 years.
One of the first things on my to-do list was automating the deployment of terminal server, otherwise knows as Remote Desktop Services now in Windows Server 2008 R2. The easy part of the task was building the VM in our VMWare cluster, performing the SYSPREP, and creating the template.
The objective is 4 fold:
- Installing the licensing service and RDS services (plus performing a reboot).
- Activating the licensing services and installing licenses
- Customizing the session settings
- Adding an AD group to the local RD Users group