Introducing Terminal Services Server Drain Mode
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 by Michel Roth
Debuting in Windows Server 2008 is the possibility to “drain” a Terminal Server. This way you can put a server into maintenance mode, by disabling new logons to it but allowing reconnection to existing disconnected sessions. Terminal Server Draining is a great new feature of Windows Server 2008 that you can’t really do in the current Citrix Presentation Server products (except for assigning special Load Evaluators). The new Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services drain mode, amongst other things, is covered in an article I wrote on Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services: A Closer Look At Session Broker Load Balancing In Windows Server 2008.

The Terminal Services Team has put up a article on this new "drain" mode. Read it here.

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