RDS Farm - OS Edition Requirements

Hi there
To create an RDS farm - can the RDS Session Host Servers OS be Standard edition, or is Enterprise Edition required?
Regards
Ian

Hi,
You can use Standard Edition for the Remote Desktop Session Host Servers. Before 2008 you needed Enterprise as the OS for Terminal Servers to make use of Session Directory (a TS farm). With 2008 (and R2) this isnt needed anymore. Connection Broker (formally
Session Directory) does not require the RD Session Hosts to be Enterprise.
Kind regards,
Freek Berson
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Hi Ben,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
In your case, I can suggest you to check that the certificate must match the FQDN of the server. If you are creating SSL certificate then it must be signed by trusted authority and also the certificate must be stored under “local computer/personal store“.
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