This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a Terminal Services (TS) environment. The course focuses on configuring of TS core functionality, licensing, Gateway, and Web Access. This is the second course in the Windows Application Platform Services Technology Specialists Who Use Windows Server 2008 curriculum and will introduce the students to the Windows 2008 Terminal Services.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Install and configure the TS role.
• Configure TS settings.
• Identify the appropriate licensing scope and configure forest, domain, and workgroup licensing.
• Identify when to use the per-user and per-device licensing modes.
• Install the TS Licensing Role.
• Configure TS licensing for per-user and device licenses.
• Manage the licensing lifecycle.
• Configure TS connection properties using TS console and Group Policy.
• Troubleshoot TS connection properties for a single user and multiple users.
• Identify the considerations for the types of applications that can be installed in a TS environment.
• Install applications on TS.
• Configure TS Web Access to make TS RemoteApp programs available through a Web site.
• Configure TS Easy Print.
• Install and configure TS Web Access role service.
• Configure a TS session broker for a load-balanced TS farm.
• Configure TS Gateway properties
• Monitor active connections using TS Gateway console.
• Troubleshoot a TS Gateway connectivity issue.
• Manage TS connections to ensure availability of the TS.
• Resolve client connectivity issues by verifying end-user configuration using Remote Desktop Connection (RDC).
• Monitor TS connections to determine when to force client disconnect.
• Identify monitoring methods for TS services role.
• Configure resource allocation policies using WSRM based on the environment.
• Monitor WSRM performance using the WSRM Monitoring TS tool.

1 - Configuring Terminal Services Core Functionality
This module explains how to install TS and configure core functionality.

Lessons

• Configuring TS Role
• Configuring TS Settings

• Installing and Configuring TS Role
• Configuring TS Settings

• Install and configure the TS role.
• Configure TS settings.

2 - Configuring and Managing Terminal Services Licensing
This module explains how to configure and manage TS Licensing.

Lessons

• Configuring TS Licensing
• Managing TS Licenses

• Installing the TS Licensing Role
• Configuring TS Licensing
• Managing TS Licensing

• Identify the appropriate licensing scope.
• Configure the license server scope: forest, domain, and workgroup licensing.
• Identify when to use the per-user and per-device licensing modes.
• Install the TS Licensing Role.
• Configure TS licensing for per-user licenses.
• Identify considerations when configuring TS licensing for per-device licenses.
• Manage the licensing lifecycle.

3 - Configuring and Troubleshooting Terminal Services Connections
This module explains how to configure and troubleshoot connection properties using TS.

Lessons

• Configuring TS Connection Properties
• Configuring TS Properties Using Group Policy
• Troubleshooting TS

• Installing the TS Connection Properties
• Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues

• Configure TS connection properties using the TS console.
• Configure TS properties using Group Policy.
• Troubleshoot TS connection properties for a single-user
• Troubleshoot TS connection properties for multiple- users.

4 - Configuring Terminal Services Resources
This module explains how to configure TS Easy Print and TS RemoteApp.

Lessons

• Installing Applications
• Configuring Remote Applications
• Configuring Printers

• Configuring and Deploying TS RemoteApp Programs
• Configuring TS Easy Print

• Identify the considerations for the types of applications that can be installed in a TS environment.
• Install applications in a TS environment.
• Configure TS Web Access to make TS RemoteApp programs available through a Web site.
• Configure TS Easy Print.

5 - Configuring Terminal Services Web Access
This module explains how to configure TS Web Access.

Lessons

• Installing the TS Web Access Role Service

• Configuring TS Web Access
• Configuring TS RemoteApp Programs for TS Web Access

• Install the TS Web Access role service.
• Configure TS Web Access.
• Configure TS RemoteApp programs for TS Web Access.

6 - Configuring Session Broker
This module explains how to configure TS Session Broker.

Lessons

• Configuring a TS Session Broker for a Load-Balanced Farm

• Configuring a Session Broker to Manage Traffic to Servers

• Configure a TS session broker for a load-balanced TS farm.

7 - Configuring and Troubleshooting Terminal Services Gateway
This module explains how to configure and troubleshoot TS Gateway.

Lessons

• Configuring TS Gateway
• Troubleshooting TS Gateway Connectivity Issues

• Configuring and Monitoring TS Gateway
• Troubleshooting TS Gateway Connectivity

• Define when to use TS Gateway.
• Configure TS Gateway properties.
• Monitor active connections using TS Gateway console
• Troubleshoot a TS Gateway connectivity issue.

8 - Managing and Monitoring Terminal Services
This module explains how to manage and monitor TS connections post installation and configuration. The students will also be introduced to configuring WSRM for TS.

Lessons

• Managing Current TS Connections
• Monitoring TS Connections
• Configuring WSRM for TS

• Managing TS Connections
• Monitoring TS Connections
• Configuring WSRM for TS

• Manage TS connections to ensure availability of the TS.
• Resolve client connectivity issues by verifying end-user configuration using RDC.
• Monitor TS connections to determine when to force client disconnect.
• Identify monitoring methods for TS role specific instances.
• Configure resource allocation policies using WSRM based on the environment.
• Monitor WSRM performance using the WSRM Monitoring TS tool.