RDS maintenance considerations

Maintaining and troubleshooting RDS servers can be an art of its own. They are Windows Server instances, yes, but in many ways you treat them more like workstations, since they are the place where users log in to utilize applications and save documents. However, many different users are logged in to these “workstations” at the same time, which creates complexities we do not normally face on workstations or other types of servers. This final section is a bit of a tips-and-tricks session for some of the common maintenance considerations you will doubtless face during your RDS administration tenure.

Install mode

There is no need to re-hash this; we already covered Install mode in detail earlier in this chapter. But if there is any one thing that I find administrators forgetting to do most often when dealing with RDS servers, it is placing them into Install mode before installing applications, and even more often forgetting to do so...