Re: Load Balancing 2 Servers and profiles

From: Cláudio Rodrigues (Claudio.Rodrigues_at_NOSPAM-Terminal-Services.NET)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:05:05 -0400

This is not a GPO. Launch Active Directory Users and Computers on the domain
controller and double click any user. There you will see the Terminal
Services Profile stuff. 

-- 
Cláudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Technologies - Terminal Services
http://www.terminal-services.net
"Harrison Midkiff" <HMidkiff@aviinc.com> wrote in message 
news:OwvoPrLsEHA.3412@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> 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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