| Windows Server 2008 (R2): How to use remote desktop to a particulair RDS server in an RDS Farm |
| Written by Administrator |
| Monday, 17 May 2010 17:44 |
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Whenever you have set up a complete Terminal Server or Remote Desktop Server farm and have included a session-broker all server will follow normal procedures. So when you use MSTSC.exe (RDP) to connect to one of the servers the specific server will contact the session-broker server to see whether you already have a session on one of the server member of the farm. Next thing is when you have WSRM (Windows Server Resource Manager) activated, the session-broker will direct you to the server with the least load, according settings of WSRM. So when connecting f.e. server00.domain.com you might end up on server02.domain.com.
To overcome this issue run the MSTSC.exe command with the switch /Admin CMD: MTSC /admin
in the screen that appears enter the servername to connect to and your fine.
Regards Robert |
Comments
you're aware this is no option for a normal user.
From:
http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2007/12/17/changes-to-remo te-administrati on-in-windows-s erver-2008.aspx
Behavior when you connect to a server that has Terminal Server installed
If you (as a member of the Administrators group on the destination server) start a Remote Desktop session to a Windows Server 2008-based server that has the Terminal Server role service installed, you must specify the /admin switch to connect to a session to remotely administer the server. The following behavior is true for the session:
• You do not need a TS CAL to connect remotely to administer a terminal server.
• Time zone redirection is disabled.
• Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker) redirection is disabled.
• Plug and Play device redirection is disabled.
• The remote session theme is changed to Windows Classic.
• Terminal Services Easy Print is disabled
What is the use for a normal user to connect to a specific server in a RDS Server Farm?? As applications are diveded and access by either the RD WebAccess or start-menu shortcuts there is no need to directly connect to a specific server. If you want to publish desktop, in most cases, I think the same goes. So only administrators will want to use this to actually administer the server without having to take the server out of the farm.
Regards Robert