Remote Desktop Connection Broker
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Remote Desktop Connection Broker is a Windows Server role service that manages and balances user connections to Remote Desktop Session Host servers, ensuring users reconnect to existing sessions and distributing new sessions efficiently.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Remote Desktop Connection Broker canonical | 5 |
| Remote Desktop Session Host | 1 |
| Terminal Services Session Broker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8289015 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Remote Desktop Connection Broker Context triple: [Remote Desktop Services, component, Remote Desktop Connection Broker]
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A.
Remote Desktop Services
Remote Desktop Services is a Microsoft Windows server role that enables users to remotely access and run applications or full desktops hosted on a central server.
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B.
Remote Desktop Connection
Remote Desktop Connection is a built-in Windows client application that lets users remotely access and control another computer over a network using the Remote Desktop Protocol.
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C.
Remote Desktop Protocol
Remote Desktop Protocol is a Microsoft-developed network communication standard that enables users to remotely access and control Windows-based computers with a graphical interface over a network.
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D.
Remote Desktop Web Client
Remote Desktop Web Client is a browser-based interface that lets users access and control remote Windows desktops and applications without installing a dedicated client.
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E.
Windows Terminal Services
Windows Terminal Services is a Microsoft Windows component that enables multiple users to remotely access and run applications or full desktops on a centralized server.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Remote Desktop Connection Broker Target entity description: Remote Desktop Connection Broker is a Windows Server role service that manages and balances user connections to Remote Desktop Session Host servers, ensuring users reconnect to existing sessions and distributing new sessions efficiently.
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A.
Remote Desktop Services
Remote Desktop Services is a Microsoft Windows server role that enables users to remotely access and run applications or full desktops hosted on a central server.
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B.
Remote Desktop Connection
Remote Desktop Connection is a built-in Windows client application that lets users remotely access and control another computer over a network using the Remote Desktop Protocol.
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C.
Remote Desktop Protocol
Remote Desktop Protocol is a Microsoft-developed network communication standard that enables users to remotely access and control Windows-based computers with a graphical interface over a network.
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D.
Remote Desktop Web Client
Remote Desktop Web Client is a browser-based interface that lets users access and control remote Windows desktops and applications without installing a dedicated client.
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E.
Windows Terminal Services
Windows Terminal Services is a Microsoft Windows component that enables multiple users to remotely access and run applications or full desktops on a centralized server.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Remote Desktop Services component ⓘ |
| assigns | new sessions to least-loaded RD Session Host servers ⓘ |
| authenticates | user connection requests ⓘ |
| balances | load across Remote Desktop Session Host servers ⓘ |
| category |
Microsoft server technology
ⓘ
Remote desktop software ⓘ |
| communicatesOver | RDP ⓘ |
| configurableWith |
PowerShell cmdlets
ⓘ
Server Manager ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| distributes | new sessions efficiently ⓘ |
| ensures | users reconnect to existing sessions ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Windows Server 2008 R2
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server 2008
|
| manages |
reconnection to existing user sessions
ⓘ
user connections to Remote Desktop Session Host servers ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Windows Server ⓘ |
| partOf | Remote Desktop Services ⓘ |
| previousName |
Terminal Services Session Broker
ⓘ
linked to:
Remote Desktop Connection Broker
|
| requires |
Active Directory Domain Services
ⓘ
linked to:
Active Directory domain
Remote Desktop Licensing ⓘ Remote Desktop Session Host servers ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Terminal Services
|
| roleServiceOf |
Remote Desktop Services role
ⓘ
linked to:
Remote Desktop Services
|
| supports |
Remote Desktop Gateway integration
ⓘ
Remote Desktop Web Access integration ⓘ Remote Desktop clients ⓘ RemoteApp programs ⓘ Windows Server 2012 ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
Windows Server 2012 R2 ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
Windows Server 2016 ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
Windows Server 2019 ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
Windows Server 2022 ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
collections of session hosts ⓘ collections of virtual desktops ⓘ drain mode for maintenance ⓘ high availability configurations ⓘ load balancing policies ⓘ session persistence ⓘ session-based desktops ⓘ virtual desktop collections ⓘ |
| tracks |
active user sessions
ⓘ
disconnected user sessions ⓘ |
| usedFor |
centralized management of RDS sessions
ⓘ
load distribution in RDS farms ⓘ session reconnection in RDS farms ⓘ |
| uses |
SQL Server database for high availability
ⓘ
Windows Internal Database in some deployments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Remote Desktop Connection Broker Description of subject: Remote Desktop Connection Broker is a Windows Server role service that manages and balances user connections to Remote Desktop Session Host servers, ensuring users reconnect to existing sessions and distributing new sessions efficiently.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Remote Desktop Connection Broker
linked to: Remote Desktop Connection Broker