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I wish to put in place a HA 2016 RDS service in azure that will provide remote desktop services to users connected via a VPN, there are multiple articles and deployment templates that deploy the web and gateway servers, are these needed or could I just put in place.

3 session hosts 2 connection brokers (both on domain controllers connected to azure SQL) 2 License servers(possibly also on the domain controllers) My goal is to provide a HA RDS for internal users with minimum servers possible Thanks

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If you want to deploy a scalable high available Desktop-as-a-Service solution in Azure, you can start just with 4 VMs and scale as you grow.

Remote Desktop Services has two standard architectures:

  • Basic deployment – This contains the minimum number of servers to create a fully effective RDS environment
  • Highly available deployment – This contains all necessary components to have the highest guaranteed uptime for your RDS environment

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More information about this, please refer to this blog.

You could use template to deploy your RDS PAAS service.

If you want to use VPN to connect RDS service, you need create a Site-to-Site VPN to Azure Virtual Network.

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  • Ok thanks but do I need the RDGW(Gateway) and the RDWeb – user3129787 Jun 16 '17 at 07:51
  • Yes, you need. But if you deploy it using template, you don't need deploy them alone. – Shui shengbao Jun 16 '17 at 07:53
  • @user3129787, you could check the blog and use template to deploy your RDS service. When the RDS service is created, you need deploy a site-to-site VPN. – Shui shengbao Jun 16 '17 at 07:55
  • Ok thanks, I'm assuming if deploying rdweb and rdgateway then a VPN is not essential as these secure the comms via SSL over the internet, from what I can make out if you were to have a VPN then you wouldn't need rdweb or rd gateway as you can connect straight to the broker which will distribute the in coming connections? – user3129787 Jun 19 '17 at 06:55
  • If you deploy a VPN connection, you could access your RDS service with private IP.Also, if you want to access it with Public IP, you don't need it. – Shui shengbao Jun 19 '17 at 07:02