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Have any of you tried to use AD FS as a gateway to connect to other windows via RDP? I would like to achieve redundancy between these windows connected to the FS. The first window goes down, the FS directs it to the second or third window. Something like using it partly as a load balancer. According to the documentation, after the farm is created, it is Windows (Main, with R/W database) and backup (with local R/O database, which when it detects a change, takes these changes). Or it possible to use RDG with multiple servers? To sum up, i want to create a few servers with redundancy . One is down, then AD forward user to another.
Can you clarify what you mean by using ADFS as a gateway? Do you mean publish an RDP Gateway with a Web Application Proxy? Do you mean RDP Gateway SSO with ADFS integration?
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Hi,
Is there any update?
Please let us know if you have any further question.
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Eleven
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it mustn't be a publish web, propably it will we isolated internet area. I need to have something like farm servers, if one down then gateway redirect RDP user to another server. I was thinking that i need FS to unite a few servers to do this. I get wrong?
Yup, is update. I describe it bellow to you. Thanks for help
Thanks for help
Hi,
Is there any other question?
If no, could you please accept the replies as answer if they are helpful? By that, others will be able to easily search the answer for similar questions in our forum.
Thanks,
Eleven
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If they help, please accept them as answers.
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Eleven
Hi,
Based on your description, it seems you would like to achieve SSO (Single Sign On) together with load balance in your RDS deployment.
If so, there is no need to use ADFS, RDCB (Remote Desktop connection Broker) can achieve both.
Or do you have any other requirement that must use ADFS, so that you would like to integrate ADFS with RDS?
Thanks,
Eleven
I don't have more requirements with that. I only something like i describe up, if one server from farm is going down, then user is rederiected to another working. Maybe i will be use GPO to copy user files on desktop, but only that. When i was reading ADFS docs, i was thought that is my solve.
Okay, just one thing. If it possible, great solution would be just one address to that farm.
Hi,
In RDS deployment, High Availability configuration could achieve your requirement (if one server from farm is going dome, then RDCB will redirect the user to anther working server in this farm).
But the user does not use IP address to connect to the farm but use the farm name. In DNS zone, the farm name will have several records that match with all the IP addresses of the session host servers in the farm.
Then when the user use the farm name to connect to the remote desktop, the RDCB will redirect the user to one session host server. If there are several users connect to the farm at the same time, the RDCB will redirect them to different session host servers for load balance. Also, if one server is down, the RDCB will allow the user to reconnect to their existing session in another working one.
Meanwhile, you can enable user profile disks instead of using GPO to copy user files on desktop.
You can refer to below blog for RDS deployment to achieve your requirement. You need to use Standard Deployment.
Deploying Remote Desktop Services 2016 Step-By-Step
https://nedimmehic.org/2017/01/21/deploying-remote-desktop-services-2016-step-by-step/
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Eleven
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Hello, thanks for that. It's helped me a lot. I
I have another problem when i try to install remote desktop session host on two Windows Server 2019 Core from Admin center on AD. I adding this in server roles and features and get failed status, i try this in RDS, where is possible to add remote desktop session host from Tasks. But it's the same result. So i change a way of thinking and install new Windows Server 2019(Desktop) and in this case, everything went well. I add remote desktop session host from Tasks and i can create collection from this but i need this two Core, do you have any idea what can goes wrong? It isn't network problem. When i have this two core in Admin center>All servers, is everything ok with this two Core, they have normal refresh time, i can use PS from Admin center on this, remote controling is enabled.
Hi,
It seems you have several different Q&A accounts in this thread to post your comments.
Could you please use your first account Isssah21-3229, which post the original question, to accept the helpful answers? 
By this way, other open could easily search the answers for similar questions in Q&A forum. Thank you.
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Eleven
Hi,
Please be informed that windows server 2019 core can only install RDCB and RD licensing role. RD session host, RD Gateway and RD Web access cannot not be installed.
Roles, Role Services, and Features not in Windows Server - Server Core
https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/server-core/server-core-removed-roles
Role Services not in Server Core
Note that some Remote Desktop role services are included in Server Core (Connection Broker, Licensing, Virtualization Host), but others are NOT (Gateway, RD Session Host, Web Access).
Remote Desktop Services \ Remote Desktop Gateway (RDS-Gateway)
Remote Desktop Services \ Remote Desktop Session Host (RDS-RD-Server)
Remote Desktop Services \ Remote Desktop Web Access (RDS-Web-Access)
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Eleven