Zeus Traffic Manager: Deploying Microsoft Terminal Services

Technical Notes
Deployment Guide

Microsoft Terminal Services are widely used by many organisations to enable users to access their desktop from any location, inside or outside the organisation. This critical application therefore needs to be managed in terms of resiliency and scaling.

Zeus Traffic Manager can be used to load-balance Termin Services traffic across a cluster, quering the session directory each time to ensure that end-user's sessions are never broken by the load-balancing decision.

Why manage your network traffic using Zeus Traffic Manager?

Improved Availability: Zeus Traffic Manager is able to make your Microsoft Terminal Services deployment more reliable and available, reducing downtime due to routine maintenance and unanticipated failures.
Better performance: The unique application acceleration features will improve the end-user performance of Microsoft Terminal Services, and increase its capacity, giving you a much better return on your software and infrastructure investment.
More secure: Acting as a ‘gatekeeper’, Zeus Traffic Manager delivers improved security as a line of defence for Microsoft Terminal Services, protecting against flash floods and inspecting and filtering all incoming and outgoing traffic.
Simplified management: Complete traffic inspection and a powerful configuration language let you build sophisticated traffic management policies to manage traffic across large clusters, reduce operational costs and build an efficient, flexible and highly scalable application infrastructure.