Chapter 13. Load Balancing Remote Desktop Services

As your Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environment grows and begins to support more applications and users, you will need to be able to ensure a high degree of uptime of that RDS environment for those users. The most popular method for achieving high availability in an RDS environment is through the use of load balancing. In addition to providing for a highly available RDS environment, we can leverage load-balancing features to scale out our RDS environment to eventually consist of many servers and support greater numbers of users. When multiple RDS Session Host servers are configured to host the same set of applications, this is most often referred to as a farm. Although there are several methods ...

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