Prevent Load Balancing in a Remote Desktop Services Deployment

We need to prevent two Remote Desktop Session Hosts from load balancing between each other. Currently they are load balanced and users dont have a means of ensuring they end up on a particular server. Is there anyway that we can accomplish this?
Cheers

Hi,
You can try below group policy might useful in your case.
Computer configuration>Administrative Templates>Windows Components>Remote Desktop Services>Remote Desktop Session Host>RD Connection Broker
Use RD Connection Broker Load Balancing: Disable
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
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