Thursday, August 18, 2011

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.

* 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?

* 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.

* 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.

* 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?

* 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?

* 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?

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