RDS Brokers Deleting all Brokers and create a new one.

Craig Garland 316 Reputation points
2020-12-15T04:12:59.75+00:00

Hi Guys,

So I am in the process of upgrade 2012 R2 RDS VDI to 2016. The first step is to upgrade the brokers.

The suggestion is to delete all broker but the active one. Upgrade it then add new 2016 brokers back in.

What I am wondering is can I just delete all the 2012 R2 brokers. Then just create a fresh 2016 broker. If I do this will I loose any information, or do the Brokers just store connection information.

This seems to be a good method of upgrade that takes out the issue some people have mention of broker upgrades failing.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

Craig

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  1. Jenny Yan-MSFT 9,336 Reputation points
    2020-12-15T05:55:12.967+00:00

    Hi,
    Usually to migrate RDS 2012 to higher version like 2016 for example is planned to keep current RDS deployment settings and configurations, but as you mentioned there will be issues caused by in-place upgrade.

    So if you have enough resources(either VM or physical machines) and do not want to keep previous settings, build a RDS 2016 deployment from the scratch is the most convenient way.

    Moreover, despite of RDCB and RDSH/VH, components like RD Web, RD Gateway, and the licensing server could be migrated directly.

    Reference links:
    Upgrade RDS Connection Broker to Windows Server 2016
    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6b387384-9be2-4e29-8c9c-2bcd2e36d243/upgrade-rds-connection-broker-to-windows-server-2016?forum=winserverTS
    Migrate your Remote Desktop Services deployment to Windows Server 2016
    https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/migrate-rds-role-services

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    Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.

    Thanks,
    Jenny

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  2. Craig Garland 316 Reputation points
    2020-12-16T21:41:06.883+00:00

    Hi,

    Thanks for your answer Jenny. Unfortunatly it does not exactly answer my question. I would like to keep the configuration and VDI both Pooled and Personal. What I would like to know is if I can just delete all Brokers, then build a fresh broker, without looking any collection information? As for Gateway and Webserver, I know I can build new version of these and the session host are fine as long as I move VDI off before rebuild.

    So I guess part of my question is where is all the configuration for the collection store? What do I always need to have to not loose collection information?

    Thanks for your time.
    Craig

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