Please define the xRDServer resource

[dsccommunity]

Please define the xRDServer resource

[danielboth]

Hi @figueroadavid, is this just about the ability to be able to, with DSC, allow connections without NLA? If so, that can be handled by the RemoteDesktopAdmin resource in ComputerManagementDsc (here: https://github.com/PowerShell/ComputerManagementDsc)

[figueroadavid]

If this is what I think it was.. (this was a cross thread jump.. but based on my wording I think I remember what this was).

I believe this is around defining the RDS Licensing server through DSC. When MS introduced the server groups, they removed the ability to cleanly define a license server locally. So, if you have a standalone machine (not in a domain), it becomes "relatively" difficult to set that licensing server. It can be done by WMI, but in my mind, there's no reason this couldn't be part of a DSC resource to build these.

The other part I was thinking about was the NLA connections. I was thinking more specifically in terms of RDP not at as an admin function, but as the session host. And to me, this is obviously a fundamental piece of RDS, so it would make sense to me to have this be part of the DSC resource. It's at the core, so why depend on a separate only vaguely related resource.

David F.