I'm trying to install a new RDS-farm with session hosts in 2008R2 and the connection broker with 2012 and I can't find any information at all on this.
Servers:
RDCB01, Connection Broker and Session Host roles installed.
RDSH01-16, Session host role installed.
On the connection broker I created a new collection under "Remote desktop services", I then added all my session hosts to local group "RDS Endpoint Servers".
On RDSH01-16 I have added the session hosts to the farm with the collection name i created on RDCB01.
In the DNS i have added collection.domain.com to all RDSH and the RDCB.
In 2008R2 you can set the connection broker to "farm redirection" so the users never get logged on there, but I can't find this in 2012. The only thing I can find is under Remote Desktop Services -> Collections and host servers where I can set allow/don't allow new connections, if I set "don't allow" when the users try to logon to collection.domain.com once in a while they still try to logon to rdcb01 and get an error message saying "no new connections is allowed.."
How do I set the RDCB to "dedicated farm redirection"?
Is it even possible to have 2008R2 session hosts with a 2012 connection broker?
Best Answer
Your connection broker should not be in collection.domain.com, only the session hosts should be. The session hosts talk to the session broker, not the clients.