9. Step 5: Determine the Number of Terminal Server Farms
A terminal server farm is a group of terminal servers that publish an identical set of applications. When a user connects to a terminal server in the farm, his or her session request is passed to the TS Session Broker role service, which uses a load balancing algorithm to redirect that session request to the least-loaded server in the farm.
Note A Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services farm can include servers running Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services. However, in a mixed farm like this, TS Session Broker load balancing cannot be used. So if there are applications that must remain on Windows Server 2003, it is recommended that they be in a separate farm.
The goal of this step is ...
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