RDS 2012 Collection

[Rodolphe]

Hello there

How can I setup a connection to an RDS 2012 Collection ?
Where can I set the name of the RDS collection ?

[DevOma]

What does "RDS Collection" mean?

[Rodolphe]

On Windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Role, you organise your "farms" in Collections.
Collection contains Session Hosts, and propose Remote Apps or Desktop Sessions.
But for connecting to a 2012 R2 RDS Collection, you must use a RDP file wich contain the parameters of the Gateway servers, and the Collection Name.
You can't access the RDS Services without these name.

[DevOma]

We do not support this at the moment - you can only connect to a specific machine like you can do with mstsc

[Rodolphe]

Is it plan to include this in a futur patch ?
Actually, ASG is not full windows 2012 compatible without this feature...
Whenever you want to have a high availability RDS platform, you have to deal with collections...
Microsoft tool microsoft remote desktop manager already include it.

[DevOma]

I put it on the feature list and will check how we can include that into ASG-RD

[DevOma]

So I had a look into MS Remote Desktop Manager - but I can't see anything about RDS Collections? How can I configure it there? And what is the result? What are your expectation for including it into ASG-RD? Perhaps you can give me some more input...