Scenario:

 

We have Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, with 2 published apps at the
moment.

We also have an old Citrix server, running 1.8 Metaframe, which is
acting as a remote desktop for our Executive Director.

We have received a shipment of 7 new laptops.  Two separate situations
to consider:

 

1)       One of the laptops is going to the Executive Director (Our head
muckety-muck).  He currently is using Citrix Program Neighborhood to
access a published desktop on our old Citrix server (1.8 Metaframe).  My
thoughts on his situation are to setup a mobile VPN for him, and just
have him VPN in, and voila, it's like he's sitting at his desk.

2)       Another laptop is going to a person who says they need to be
able to access the published apps while on the road.  I have tested Web
Interface, internally, which seems ok, but we don't have an SSL cert for
it.  Should I make a redirection within IIS, setting it up so that
outside users would hit it as a sub-page of our public site (i.e.
https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix <https://www.etp.ca.gov/citrix> )?  Or
should I go with a VPN there also, and have them connect as they do
normally, through a shortcut on the desktop?

 

We don't have Secure Gateway, and I don't think we're going to purchase
it for a handful of people, so that is not an option.

 

The VPN would be using my Watchguard x750 firewall's built-in mobile
client VPN feature.

 

Any suggestions/tips/advice is appreciated, as I need to come up with a
good, secure, viable solution soon.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe Heaton

AISA

Employment Training Panel

1100 J Street, 4th Floor

Sacramento, CA  95814

(916) 327-5276

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 


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