Deploying TS Session Broker

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker) is a role service that keeps track of user sessions in a load-balanced terminal server farm. The TS Session Broker database stores session state information that includes session IDs, their associated user names, and the name of the server where each session resides. TS Session Broker uses this information to redirect users who have an existing session to the terminal server where their session exists.

If the TS Session Broker Load Balancing feature is enabled, TS Session Broker also tracks the number of user sessions on each terminal server in the farm, and directs new sessions to the terminal server with the fewest sessions.

To install and configure a TS Session Broker server, see the following topics:

• Installation Prerequisites for TS Session Broker

• Checklist: Creating a Load-Balanced Terminal Server Farm by Using TS Session Broker

• Installing TS Session Broker

• Adding Each Terminal Server in the Farm to the Session Directory Computers Local Group

• Configuring a Terminal Server to Join a Farm in TS Session Broker

• Configuring DNS for TS Session Broker Load Balancing

• Configuring Dedicated Redirectors (optional)