Re: Load Balancing 2 Servers and profiles

From: Harrison Midkiff (HMidkiff_at_aviinc.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:23:03 -0400

Claudio:

Thanks for your reply. I am using AD 2000 and my servers are Windows 2003. I
don't see a GPO in for "Terminal Server". It there a template I can load?
Thanks again.

Harrison Midkiff

"Cláudio Rodrigues" <Claudio.Rodrigues@NOSPAM-Terminal-Services.NET> wrote
in message news:eGOSb3JsEHA.3576@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> The only thing you must to do is to save the profiles somewhere. If you go
> to AD and check the user properties you will see a Terminal Services
> Profile Path. Set that somewhere like
> \\YOUR_FILE_SERVER\TSProfiles\%username% where TSProfiles is the share
> name and YOUR_FILE_SERVER is a file server you may have.
> There is no need for Session Directory.
> For Load Balancing if you are using Windows 2003 TS you can use NLB,
> although NLB is not resource based (this means if a server gets stuck on
> 100% CPU, NLB will still send users to that server). If you are looking
> for an easy to use resource based load balancing solution take a look at
> WTSGateway Pro.
>
> --
> Cláudio Rodrigues
>
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Technologies - Terminal Services
> http://www.terminal-services.net
> "Harrison Midkiff" <HMidkiff@aviinc.com> wrote in message
> news:eZT9HlIsEHA.3748@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am in the process of setting up 2 terminal servers on my network. I am
>> going to setup load balancing on the server to balance them out. I need
>> to address the issue of profiles on the different servers. I have looked
>> at the Session Directory server, but if I understand it correctly it is
>> only going to direct users back to the TS server which holds there
>> profile. Am I correct? Does anyone know of any good white papers that
>> cover setting up TS on 2003, load balancing and user profiles. Thanks.
>>
>> Harrison Midkiff
>>
>
>

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