You are planning the virtual desktop migration of the desktop computers for the sales department.
You need to recommend a solution that preserves thedata stored on the sales users’ desktop computers
during the migration to Windows 8.
The solution must meet the sales department requirements and the technical requirements.
What should you recommend?
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., is a pharmaceutical company. The company has an office in Seattle.
Existing Environment
The network contains a single-domain Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The relevant servers in
the network are configured as shown in the following table.
All client computers run Windows XP. All client computers are configured to receive automatic updates from
SRV-WSUS.
All users have desktop computers. Users in the sales department also have laptop computers. The laptop
computers are used by the sales users to remotely access the internal network by using a VPN connection.
The sales users use several line-of-business applications.
Requirements
Planned Changes
The company plans to deploy a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager infrastructure that will
contain two servers. The servers will be configuredas shown in the following table.
The company plans to deploy a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) infrastructure that will contain the
following servers:
Two Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD ConnectionBroker) servers configured for high-availability
Two Remote Desktop Visualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) servers
Two Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access) servers
Two Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) servers
Technical Requirements
The company identifies the following technical requirements:
Configuration Manager must be used to deploy operating systems and patches.
An existing virtual machine that runs Windows 8 must be used as the reference computer for the
deployment of new client computers.
To troubleshoot installation issues, technicians must be able to open a Command Prompt window during
the deployment of Windows 8 to the new client computers.
Sales Department Requirements
The company identifies the following requirements for the sales users:
All of the files on the laptop computers must be encrypted.
The amount of administrative effort must be minimized whenever possible.
Certificate warnings must not be displayed when connecting to virtual desktops.
The availability of the virtual desktops must not be affected by a single server failure.
The desktop computers of the sales users must be replaced by virtual desktops that run Windows 8.
The contents of each sales user’s Documents folder must be the same on the virtual desktop and the laptop
computer.
The sales users must be able to connect to their virtual desktop from their laptop computer without using a
VPN connection.
The sales users must be able to configure their user settings independently on their virtual desktop and their
laptop computer.
The line-of-business applications must be installedon the virtual desktops only. The line-of-business
applications require hardware acceleration to run.
A.
On the client computers that run Windows XP, run usmtutils.exe.
B.
From Configuration Manager, configure the User and Device Affinity.
C.
On the client computers that run Windows XP, run scanstate.exe.
D.
From Configuration Manager, create computer associations.