Best practices with Terminal Services

From: Matt (matt@businesscomputing.com.au)
Date: 08/30/02 

From: "Matt" <matt@businesscomputing.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:04:52 -0700

If connecting to a sbs 2000 server via terminal services
client or remote desktop is that enough security or
should we also be connecting by using vpn aswell?
But then vpn adds more steps for users to connect to the
server.
Is there a way (if using vpn is recommended) where say
remote desktop establishes the vpn automaticly when
connecting to the server?
Currently if we are to setup a vpn aswell the steps
needed are
1.connect to internet (not needed if on broadband)
2.click on vpn connection icon
3.click on remote desktop icon

but then when using vpn things like viewing websites on
your local pc's ie6 and recieving emails on your local
copy of outlook isn't possible, or is it?

thanks to anyone who can help
Matt

Relevant Pages

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    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: VPN... very nearly there!
    ... rather than IP in case you're having routing issues over the VPN. ... access over RDP from the LAN should be equally accessible over VPN. ... Remote desktop has to be enabled in the Windows Firewall on the client PC - ... to the server itself, it should work. ...
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  • Re: RWW via VPN only partially working
    ... RWW or a straight RDC session (without connecting the hard drives ... VPN also exacts some additional connection "overhead", ... external NIC if you have 2 NICs in the SBS server). ... Then, RWW ...
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  • Re: Outlook RPC over HTTP
    ... We dont have SP1 because it was an OEM install with a tiny 12gb ... Principal Name For Proxy Server now as below but still no luck: ... testing whilst not connected over VPN) is this as good as on the LAN? ... exchange but I think it is connecting over TCP/IP. ...
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  • Re: Is it possible to map a drive over 3389 using 2003 TS + remote desktop ?
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