2003 Terminal Server Session Directory Clustering

Hi everybody ;
I have question about clustering TS Session Directory Service.
In my environment I have four terminal server which running Windows Server 2003 R2. Now we bought two new servers and we are planning to use them for File Server with Windows Server 2008 R2. I installed Windows Server 2008 R2 to this new servers
and i configured them for file server and clustered this two server. But i want to cluster the my terminal servers session directory service in this cluster environment. My terminal server WS2003 but cluster environment is WS2008. Is there a problem about
this version difference ?
Thanks.

i don't believe so. 2003 terminal services requires at least 2x 2003 servers with the session directory service running on them to be clustered in MSCS.  2008 has a whole new session directory which will not serve 2003 remote desktop hosts
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301923
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301926
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/2/8624174c-8587-4a37-8722-00139613a5bc/TS_Session_Directory.doc
you may want to consider upgrading your old 2003 terminal server environment to 2008 though.

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