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John_Masgalas_4's avatar
John_Masgalas_4
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Mar 22, 2007

Load balancing terminal servers w/o Session Directory

We are having trouble with load balancing 2 terminal servers without Session Directory enabled. User will disconnect. When they log on again the big ip will not always send them to the same server so ...
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Mark_Harris_608's avatar
Mark_Harris_608
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Mar 22, 2007
No, the same behavior will be observed with Microsoft RDP clients. If session directory is not enabled or not supported, the client has nothing to verify that a current session exists before establishing a *new session* - even when using the the BIG-IP WTS persistence setting. New connections within the same session ARE persisted to the same device (WTS or RDP client) when WTS persistence is used.