Multiple Session Connections, Manual Load Balance due to temp profiles

Setup:
DC: "2012 r2 St"
TS1: RD gateway, session host 1, user security group 1 "2012 r2 St"
TS2, session host for user security group 2 "2012 r2 St"
Collection 1 > session host 1 for user security group 1
Collection 2> session host 2 for user security group 2
Issues/Goal:
I would like to load balance the 2 hosts so some users log on to one server the others the other server, we originally had one collection with 2 session hosts in there running at 80/20 load balance.
This caused major issues with user profile disks logging onto a temporary profile every time they logged onto the second server, seems to be a bug in the software has many users are having this issue and it doesn’t seem to be resolved yet so we decided to
do a manual loads balance where half of the users are ts1 and the rest to ts2.
I created 2 collections with separate security groups, the problem is when I connect to “remote desktop” rdgateway.domaniname.com.au only the ts1 secuirty group users can log in, it doesn't automatically point the users at the correct server (ts2).
If I manually remote desktop to ts2 it lets me log is as a user from that security group.
I would like to the gateway to automatically point my users to the correct session server/collection based on the security group they are in. Can someone tell me what is going wrong here?
If i browse to the rdweb.xxx.xx and log in as a user from TS2 group it only shows the correct ts2 and lets me log in, its just remote desktop app that has the issue.

how have you setup user profiles? user profile redirection or UPD? if you have a server outside of your TS farm acting as a file server to serve the profiles and your GPOs are setup correctly and are actually being applied correctly, you shouldn't see temp
profile issues
what you are doing now seems like a huge overhead and sort of defeats the purpose of having a connection broker when you're not taking advantage of load distribution

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As you are most likely already aware, inn Remote Desktop Services 2012 / R2 the Connection broker uses round robin DNS to load balance.
To simplify things I would recommend that you let the connection broker load balance the sessions and use the KEMP to Load balance the RDweb and Gateway servers.
Have a look at the following articles:
http://ryanmangansitblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/create-a-rdwa-farm-using-a-kemp-load-balancer/
http://ryanmangansitblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/rds-2012-configuring-a-rd-gateway-farm/
http://ryanmangansitblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/load-balance-rds2012-rdwa-and-rdgw-using-sub-interfaces-on-kemps-loadmaster/
As you have mentioned that you are migrating from a 2008R2 configuration, have a look at the following article:
http://ryanmangansitblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/publish-rds-2008r2-desktop-on-rds-2012/
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