Using the Terminal Server Session Directory Service
Thursday, 14 December 2006 by Michel Roth
In this short article, John Kellet explains on how to use the Terminal Server Session Directory service: The Terminal Services Session Directory service is a database that keeps track of sessions on terminal servers in a cluster and provides the information used at connection time to connect users to existing sessions. In this article I discuss this and also how to create a Terminal Server Cluster.

When a user logs on to the terminal server cluster the session directory server gets to know about it as the Terminal Server who receives the login request sends this information to it. The session directory service then checks the username to see if the user has any disconnected sessions. If the user doesn’t have any then the request is sent back to the Terminal Server and logon continues. If the user does have a disconnected session on another servcer then the logon request is sent to tht server instead and the user logs on to the disconnected session. The session directory is then updated.

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