Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Load Balancing and Application Publishing
Windows Server 2008 has some great new features for Terminal Services. For example, you can create two Terminal Servers, lock them down with Group Policy, use GP to redirect the profiles, so the users get the same settings when they log onto either server, load balance them, and publish applications from the servers via a web page or an icon on the users desktop. You can even do this to the Internet and encrypt the traffic. Here is how;
Build three servers using Windows Server 2008. You can use Standard Edition for this. Two of the servers will be Terminal Servers and one will be the Session Broker (load balancer). This assumes that you are installing in an Active Directory enviroment. You may use a Domain Controller for your Session Broker. You will also be installing Terminal Services Gateway, Terminal Services License Manager and Terminal Services Application Publisher on it. You an also use one of the Terminal Servers for these sessions, as we will be doing in this tutorial.
On Terminal Server A you will install the following componenets;