MCSE & System Administrator Interview Questions – Part 7 – Windows Server 2008 R2 TS/RDS

TS/RDS in most places, however since RDS is the new name of TS in Windows Server 2008 R2, I sometimes used it instead of the "full name".
Technical Interview Questions - Windows Server 2008/R2 TS/RDS
• What is presentation virtualization?
• Describe the benefits of using TS/RDS.
• Describe the drawbacks of using TS/RDS.
• Describe the main TS role services in Windows Server 2008.
• Describe the main RDS role services in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• What are the major changes between the Windows Server 2008 TS and the Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS roles in relation to Windows Server 2003 TS.
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• What is the TS/RDS Session Host?
• What are the benefits of using 64-bit hardware and OS vs. using the 32-bit version?
• Describe your experience in using TS/RDS.
• How can you configure TS/RDS session limits? Describe a couple of methods.
• What is GPO Loopback Processing?
• How do you standardize user profiles and settings across a TS/RDS farm?
• What are the major drawbacks of using Roaming User Profiles?
• Working with Outlook on TS/RDS, what can you tell me about using cached modes?
• How do you install applications on a TS/RDS Session Host? Describe a couple of methods.
• What are the TS/RDS command line management tools?
• How would you achieve high availability with RD Session Hosts?
• What is "Virtual Machine Redirection" and when would it be used?
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• Talk about TS/RDS licensing.
• Is there any difference in RDS licensing in Windows Server 2008 R2?
• What is the licensing grace period?
• Where would you install the RD Licensing server? Talk about small implementation and large implementation scenarios.
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• What is RDS RemoteApp?
• Describe the benefits of using RDS RemoteApp.
• How do you publish a RemoteApp?
• What's the difference between using .RDP files and .MSI files when publishing a RemoteApp to the users' desktops?
• In Windows 7, it's possible to use RemoteApp in conjunction with RDS Web Access in a different manner. Can you describe this process?
• Needing to control which users get access to which RemoteApp. How can you do that?
• Describe the way RemoteApps integrate with the Windows desktop.
• Besides RemoteApp, what other ways or software lifecycle management solutions are you aware of?
• Talk about digital signatures and their relevance to RemoteApp publishing.
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• What is RDS Web Access?
• Describe the benefits of using RDS Web Access.
• Talk about the implementation scenarios of RDS Web Access.
• Describe the process of securing RDS Web Access.
• How would you publish an RDS Web Access site?
• Can you use Web Access with other Microsoft-based solutions? Name a few.
• What's the alternative for using RDS Web Access?
• Talk about digital signatures in relation to RDS Web Access.
• How can you control who has access to the RDS Web Access website?
• What would you do in order to publish RemoteApps from multiple RD Session Hosts through one RD Web Access server?
• What would you do in order to publish RemoteApps from multiple RD Session Hosts through one RD Web Access server?
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• What's RDS Gateway?
• What are the main usage scenarios for RDS Gateway?
• What are RAPs?
• What are CAPs?
• Describe the process of securing RDS Gateway.
• Talk about digital signatures in relation to RDS Gateway.
• What type of RD clients can be used with RD Gateway?
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• What is the RD Session Broker?
• What was the original role of the RD Session Broker, and what where the names this role used in previous versions of Terminal Services?
• When would you need to implement a RD Session Broker?
• Talk about RD Session Broker and VDI.
• Talk about the entire process of using all RDS components along with RS Session Broker.
• How would you achieve high availability with RD Session Brokers?