Connect RDP session to RDSH farm

Hi
I have a query on connecting RDP clients, e.g. thin clients, to an RDS server farm. I have 3 servers, two running the RDSH role, and 1 running all of the other roles, including gateway and rdweb. This works fine using RDweb to a published app or desktop
with no issues.
What I am wondering is, what is the best way of connecting an RDP client to the RDSH servers? I have seen people just use round robin DNS, so create a DNS record e.g. rdsfarm.domain.com and create one record for each RDSH server IP address. Then just
use that name to connect. This works, but I am wondering if there is a better way of doing it? With round robin, what happens when one server is down? Surely in that case DNS would still return the IP, and a client may try and connect to a server that was
offline. I don't have a hardware load balancer.
Thanks

Hi,
For Server 2012/2012 R2 it is intended for initial connections to be sent to the RD Connection Broker. Also, it is intended that the client device, when making this initial connection to the broker, specify the collection that they are attempting
to connect to. If you use RDWeb or RemoteApp and Desktop Connections feed the collection will automatically be included in the .rdp file that is used.
There is no place in the Remote Desktop Client UI to specify the target collection so if you want users to manually use that one solution is to download the .rdp file from RDWeb (using non-IE browser) and have them double-click it. Another solution
is to set the default collection in the RDCB's registry, however, only one collection can be the default on each broker so it is not as useful for multiple collections.
With a single RD Connection Broker handling the initial connections one of your RDSH servers could be taken offline and new connections would be sent to the remaining RDSH server automatically. If the RDCB itself goes down then new connection
attempts will fail. To solve this it is recommended to have multiple RDCB servers configured as HA and using a shared SQL Server that is also configured as HA.
In a HA RDCB configuration you would preferably use NLB or hardware load balancer to balance the incoming connections across all of the RDCB servers and to detect if one is unavailable so that connections will not be directed to a down server.
Eliminating all single points of failure can get expensive and is significantly more complex so as with other things you should weigh the cost/benefit of each potential option.
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