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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

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Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838987190

Pages 650 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Authors (2):

Mark Henderson

Jordan Krause

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Learning the Interface

2. Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks

3. Chapter 3: Networking

4. Chapter 4: Working with Certificates

5. Chapter 5: Internet Information Services

6. Chapter 6: Remote Access

7. Chapter 7: Remote Desktop Services

8. Chapter 8: Monitoring and Backup

9. Chapter 9: System Insights

10. Chapter 10: Group Policy

11. Chapter 11: File Services and Data Control

12. Chapter 12: Server Core

13. Chapter 13: Working with Hyper-V

14. Chapter 14: Containers and Docker

15. Chapter 15: Desired State Configuration and Automation

16. Chapter 16: Hardening Your Infrastructure

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Removing an RD Session Host server from use for maintenance

Occasionally, you will have to perform some maintenance on your RDSH servers. Whether this is for installing updates, installing new applications, or taking them down for some physical maintenance, it will happen sooner or later. If you have multiple RDSH servers in a collection and simply take one offline, user loads will eventually sort themselves out as the RD broker will send new connections to the RDSH servers that are still online. However, you will have caused frustration and headaches for any users who were logged in when you shut it down. It is much more user-friendly to flag an RDSH to make it unable to accept new user connections and let the existing ones dissolve naturally over a period of time. This is like a drain stop in the Network Load Balancer world.

Let's look at the setting included in RDS that allows us to flag an RDSH as unusable and force the broker to keep new connections from coming through...

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Authors (2)

Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson is a Site Reliability Engineer. He has worked for companies like Take 2 Games and Stack Overflow. He has Bachelor of Information Systems and over 13 years of experience in Windows administration, focussed on internet-facing applications and scaling enterprise applications. He works daily with containers, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server, and .NET. He lives in a quiet, peaceful beach town in Australia with his family, but has been working with small, medium and large American companies since 2015

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Jordan Krause

Jordan Krause has been an IT professional for more than 20 years and has received 9 Microsoft MVP awards for his work with Microsoft server and networking technologies. One of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, he has a passion for helping companies find the best ways to enable a remote workforce. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCSE, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and has authored numerous books on Microsoft technologies. Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA), but works daily with companies around the world.

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