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Using HAProxy with MS Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop Services, formerly Terminal Services, is a technology from Microsoft that allows users to access remotely to a session-based desktop, virtual machine-based desktop, or applications hosted in a data center from their corporate network or the internet.
Multiple RDS servers can be used in a farm, which need to be load-balanced. To achieve this purpose, there are different methods that you can use:
A connection broker
A load-balancer with the connection broker
A load-balancer without the connection broker
MS Terminal Services architecture is split into multiple components:
RDP client (can be mstst.exe, rdsktop, xfreerdp, etc.)
Windows Terminal servers
Connection brokers / Session Directory (optional) or a load-balancer
Terminal Server Gateway (for external access)
There are three main scenarios possible to load-balance terminal services: