So, as mentioned for certain environments, I can see this as a potential use case for this type of configuration.
Everything is contained on the same box, including the user accounts you authenticate with. Workgroup configurations by contrast, are fairly simple. It also requires the technical expertise to configure, manage, and troubleshoot. While AD is more powerful, it is also more to maintain and takes more resources to spin up. One of the strongest use cases I can think of is in an edge environment where you may not have the infrastructure setup to run a full Active Directory environment, yet still need to provide more than two connections to an application server, perhaps running a legacy application.Īnother use case may be for a simple jumpbox that is used to monitor hardware or perform other low-level duties that do not require the server to be joined to an Active Directory domain. However, there are use cases when you may want to configure Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 in a workgroup and utilize remote desktop services.
We all know that Windows Server in an Active Directory domain has access to many more powerful ways of doing things, centralized management, and security model. Especially in production, we don’t simply want to do something just because we can without a good reason. Remote Desktop Services without Domain use casesįirst of all, before you know how to do something, it is good to know why you would want to do it. What if you have a need for running Windows Server 2019 as a remote desktop services server but you are not running a domain? If your Windows Server 2019 server is in a workgroup in an edge environment possibly and you need to run remote desktop services, is this possible? Also, what about setting up Windows Server 2019 remote desktop gateway with a workgroup? Is that possible? Can you install both on the same server in a workgroup? In this post, we will take a look at the use case of running Windows Server 2019 remote desktop services without domain services running and answer these other questions regarding the workgroup configuration with RDS and Windows Server 2019.
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