Migrate RDS Hosts to Windows Server 2022.
What we're talking about here is Remote Desktop Services, or RDS.
Now you can do a lot of things with RDS, but what I'm looking at
particularly in this slide is the desktop,
the virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI capabilities.
And in particular, when you're looking to migrate
on‑prem from one server to another,
this is an AZ‑801 exam alert. The most likely thing you'll be asked about is
migrating the Remote Desktop Services Client Access Licenses,
you know, because on your RDS hosts, you're going to have these desktops,
these Windows VDI desktops, potentially virtual machines,
you're going to need licenses for those connections.
All I want you to know here is that, and you may already
know this if you've administered RDS,
is that in the graphical RDS Manager console, you can open the Manage licenses
Wizard, and that allows you, as the screenshot shows you here actually, to
migrate those licenses from one server to another.
That's the main thing to be concerned with here with RDS on‑premises. Now,
what about doing a migration to Azure? You might be
aware of Azure Virtual Desktop, or AVD.
This is one of the Azure Migrate scenarios that we looked at elsewhere in
this course. You should understand from a bird's‑eye perspective how you
might go about migrating your on‑premises RDS farm to Azure Virtual
Desktop. Here we go. First, in Azure,
you'll create your Azure Migrate project, and here, in a break from convention,
you have to use a third‑party independent software vendor,
or ISV, tool called Lakeside SysTrack in order to assess
your current RDS environment.
Remember that in Azure Migrate, it's super important for you to assess your
existing or source environment to make sure you take advantage of Microsoft's
recommendations in sizing your Azure deployment.
We'll then,
speaking of Azure deployments, create our Azure Virtual Desktop environment,
images, persistent VMs. Next,
we'll need to convert our existing user profile disks, or UPDs to FSLogix
profile containers that are used in Azure Virtual Desktop.
And then lastly,
you can replicate, synchronize, and then failover persistent VMs into Azure.
So that's the high‑level view.
Now, remember that AZ‑801 is not going deep on Azure Virtual Desktop or RDS,
there's actually at least one separate Microsoft
certification exam specifically on AVD that I would encourage you to look at if you're interested.