RD Connection Broker, Web Access and Gateway certificates expired.

Open your Server Manager and go to Remote Desktop Services.


Click on Tasks, Edit Deployment Properties.



Click on Certificates.



If any of these are expired, I am going to show you how to get them up to date.

Now we need to get into the certificate store. If you haven't already created an MMC for your certificates, it's a good idea to do that now. Otherwise you can go to Run and type certlm.msc and hit enter.

Otherwise, start a new MMC (Start ---> Type MMC) or add it to your existing one. 

File, Add/Remove Snap In


Highlight Certificates and click Add.


Next I chose Computer Account



Select Local Computer.


Now hit Finish and OK.


Expand Personal, select Certificates.


Right-click the certificate you would like to use, choose All Tasks, Export.


Click Next


Choose Yes, export the private key. Click Next.


You can leave this as is. Click Next.


This next step is up to you. You can protect it with your own unique password or choose Group or user names and assuming you're logged in, it should populate your username below.


By default it wants to save your newly created certificate to System32. I elected to click Browse, created a new folder on the C:\ drive and put my newly created PFX file in there.


Once that's all done. You can now go back to the Deployment Properties window that we had open earlier. Highlight the Role Service with the expired status and click Select existing certificate...


Click Choose a different certificate and Browse for the one we just exported earlier.


Select Allow the certificate to be added to the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities certificate store on the destination computers and click OK


Now it should say Ready to apply and click Apply. These all have to be done one at a time. If you did everything correctly, the Status should change to OK.


Click OK and you're done.







RD Connection Broker, Web Access and Gateway certificates expired.

Open your Server Manager and go to Remote Desktop Services.


Click on Tasks, Edit Deployment Properties.



Click on Certificates.



If any of these are expired, I am going to show you how to get them up to date.

Now we need to get into the certificate store. If you haven't already created an MMC for your certificates, it's a good idea to do that now. Otherwise you can go to Run and type certlm.msc and hit enter.

Otherwise, start a new MMC (Start ---> Type MMC) or add it to your existing one. 

File, Add/Remove Snap In


Highlight Certificates and click Add.


Next I chose Computer Account



Select Local Computer.


Now hit Finish and OK.


Expand Personal, select Certificates.


Right-click the certificate you would like to use, choose All Tasks, Export.


Click Next


Choose Yes, export the private key. Click Next.


You can leave this as is. Click Next.


This next step is up to you. You can protect it with your own unique password or choose Group or user names and assuming you're logged in, it should populate your username below.


By default it wants to save your newly created certificate to System32. I elected to click Browse, created a new folder on the C:\ drive and put my newly created PFX file in there.


Once that's all done. You can now go back to the Deployment Properties window that we had open earlier. Highlight the Role Service with the expired status and click Select existing certificate...


Click Choose a different certificate and Browse for the one we just exported earlier.


Select Allow the certificate to be added to the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities certificate store on the destination computers and click OK


Now it should say Ready to apply and click Apply. These all have to be done one at a time. If you did everything correctly, the Status should change to OK.


Click OK and you're done.







How to set Remote Desktop Licensing Mode (Server 2012R2)

Open your Server Manager.


Click Remote Desktop Services on the left hand side.


Select the Overview branch.

In Deployment Overview area, select Edit Deployment Properties from the Tasks menu.


Select RD Licensing.


Choose the licensing mode and enter the name of the license server, click Add and then click OK.

How to set Remote Desktop Licensing Mode (Server 2012R2)

Open your Server Manager.


Click Remote Desktop Services on the left hand side.


Select the Overview branch.

In Deployment Overview area, select Edit Deployment Properties from the Tasks menu.


Select RD Licensing.


Choose the licensing mode and enter the name of the license server, click Add and then click OK.

Redirect Rdweb page from IIS 8 root site

After you have successfully deployed a Remote Desktop Web Access server, users have to type sub.domain.com/rdweb/pages/ to reach it.

To make it easier, you can redirect sub.domain.com to sub.domain.com/rdweb/pages

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.



Choose your site. I only have one so mine is the Default Site.



Double click on HTTP Redirect.


Check the box Redirect requests to this destination.
Type /RDWeb/Pages as redirect destination.
Uncheck the box for Redirect all requests to exact destination (instead of relative to destination).
Check the box for Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories).
Select Status code as Found (302).


Try typing https://sub.domain.com, it will redirect you to the RDWeb page.

Redirect Rdweb page from IIS 8 root site

After you have successfully deployed a Remote Desktop Web Access server, users have to type sub.domain.com/rdweb/pages/ to reach it.

To make it easier, you can redirect sub.domain.com to sub.domain.com/rdweb/pages

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.



Choose your site. I only have one so mine is the Default Site.



Double click on HTTP Redirect.


Check the box Redirect requests to this destination.
Type /RDWeb/Pages as redirect destination.
Uncheck the box for Redirect all requests to exact destination (instead of relative to destination).
Check the box for Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories).
Select Status code as Found (302).


Try typing https://sub.domain.com, it will redirect you to the RDWeb page.

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