Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
RD Connection Broker
In Windows Server 2003, the feature named Session Directory was introduced to maintain user connection states across load-balanced terminal servers. This feature kept a list of sessions indexed by username. Then, when a user became disconnected from that session and attempted to reconnect, the Session Directory redirected the user back to the same terminal server that held their disconnected session.
In Windows Server 2008, the Session Directory was renamed to the Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker). The renamed TS Session Broker also contains a new feature called TS Session Broker load balancing. Microsoft introduced the load-balancing feature to allow administrators to distribute session loads between terminal ...
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