First, why am I using 2008 R2 in year 2014? Well, because some of our applications are not supported on 2012 R2 and I cannot mix and match 2008 with 2012 in a RDS farm. So here is the quick and dirty guide (no VDI, yet): Here are the servers you need: RD gateway + RD web access (in DMZ) This provides web access to RDS on the public internet. RD Connection broker (in internal network) This routes everything. I am going to install the RD license server role on this one as well. RD Session Host (in internal network) This is the actual terminal server where applications are installed…