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Josh_41258
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Feb 12, 2014

RDS 2012 Connection Broker Clarification

I'm currently designing a RDS 2012 farm using the following document: http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-microsoft-remote-desktop-services-dg.pdf.   We are attempting to use Scenario 1 but...
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Feb 12, 2014

The users connect to the RD Gateway servers, which then look up the Connection Broker farm name to find the correct Session Host server to connect to. This lookup from Gateway to Connection Broker will pass through the LTM RDCB VIP if you have the farm name configured to resolve to it.

 

Users connecting directly to the Session Host servers will possible get redirected to another server IF they already have an existing session on that server. In this case the Session Host communicates directly with the Connection Broker to get the session token, not through the LTM RDCB VIP.