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Scott Johansen
Asked: 2009-11-02 12:37:45 +0800 CST

Secure Terminal Services over the web

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I'd need to make Terminal Services available over the web, what is the best (secure) way for me to do this?

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    First, I'd employ a secured connection such as a VPN of some sort (OpenVPN, PPTP, Cisco, ssh-tunneling, etc).

    As long as you're running RDP v6 or higher, the connection is encrypted - but authentication may not be (if I understand the documentation properly).

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  2. Look into the Remote Desktop Gateway service (present in Windows 2008 and higher) - it will tunnel RDP traffic inside a SSL stream, abstracting the terminal server from the client. Much the same way that Citrix Secure Gateway did.

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