How to report on sessions from Remote Desktop Services

I want to run a historical report for (in)active / total sessons from a group of 2008 R2 servers.  I found that I had to import the RDS MP just to even get the terminal server\(in)active sessions counters visible in the performance view, and the metrics
are being collected but I cannot figure out what object/class/counter combination to use in order to run a report from the SCOM 2012 Reporting console.  The TS 2003/2008 report templates do not work at all which were perfect from my TS 2003 farms, but
now I can't get a birds eye view of a 2008 R2 RDS farm of 100 'terminal servers'.  What gives?
B. Wright

Unfortunately, I've been there and done that.  However not of the 2008R2 servers that are running "Remote Desktop Services" are available when I try to search for a group/objects in the chart/series.  If I point it to a group that contains the
computers in question, and use any of the "terminal services 200x" counters/performance collection rules no data shows up in the report.  It's like they aren't avaliable as Windows Computers/Servers anymore because SCOM/MS considers them as a "Remote
Desktop Services Host", and the only way I can see (in)active session information is in the performance view of that management pack's folder in the monitoring pane. 
Seems to me that there is a major flaw in the RDS management pack for SCOM 2012.
B. Wright

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