I was working on replacing a Terminal Services Gateway running on Windows Server 2008 to Remote Desktop Services Gateway on Windows Server 2008 R2. Remote Desktop Services is the new name for Terminal Services in Windows Services 2008 R2.

The migration was relatively easy, on the TS Gateway open the TS Gateway Manager MMC, right click on the gateway server and select “Export policy and configuration settings”

Select where you want to save the configuration file to, it is in an XML format and then click Ok

I was the changing the server name as part of the upgrade process and I had to edit the XML configuration file and just change the name of the server at the top of the exported configuration before performing the import on the RDS Gateway.

On the RDS Gateway open the RDS Gateway Manager MMC, right click on the gateway server and select “Import policy and configuration settings”

Select the location of the XML configuration file and click Ok

Overall it took less 3 hours to get it up and running (including the OS installation), nice and and easy and once I get MDT 2010 in place that will cut down my deployment times.

Links

Remote Desktop Services Product Website

Remote Desktop Services Technical Resources Website