Migrate Server 2008 R2 Connection Broker RDS farm settings to Server 2016

Hi All,

I have a Server 2008 R2 server that is a RDS Licensing Server and Connection Broker to 5x 2008 R2 RDS Session Hosts.

I understand the key to migrating is move the Connection Broker role to Server 2016 first, then add the Server 2016 Session Hosts to the farm

However I cannot use High Availability cluster to add a Server 2016 Connection Broker as my 2008 R2 server is Standard Edition, which does not support Failover Clustering.

Can I extract the Connection Broker settings (farm name etc.) and import them into a new replacement Connection Broker running on Server 2016 so I have the same farm name?

Or is the only way, to create a new RDS farm, with a new name, on Server 2016 running the Connection Broker role and then move the 2008 R2 Session Hosts to this broker? But then off course I'll have to update all my thin clients with the new name.

Thanks in advance.