Might be a good chance to get up to speed on TS. We have a TS 2008 farm here, but I'm moving those servers to XenApp. It worked fine, although I had some issues with wildcard certificates. I think that was an issue with the version and is not presented in 2008 R2 from what I understand. Use the Gateway role to expose your TS system to the Internet and you'll be fine. We make the remote desktop icon available to those persons who wish to connect to their PCs via Terminal Services. Get thee the Terminal Services 2008 Resource Kit. It's excellent. Tom
>>> David Lum <[email protected]> 11/10/2010 4:17 PM >>> In a few weeks (Dec 17th) we’ll be having a massive “work from home” day (200-ish users, because we’re moving our office to a different city) and we have the option of standing up some Terminal Servers or just running with VPN. Most users are expected to just want MS Office apps and Internet Explorer. Several (a couple dozen) will also want RDP access to their desktops. We have 3 TS servers now (1 2K8, 2 W2K3) but have the capability to stand up more 2008 TS servers. I have no experience setting up TS farms or getting them available for ability to his via Internet, although both of these appear to be pretty straightforward. I am also under the impression that TS via Internet uses less bandwidth than a straight-up VPN connection. VPN is already established but we’ll certainly have many users using their home PC that don’t currently have VPN configured and would much rather have them connect via Terminal Server than install, configure and then connect an unknown system - from a security/patched/AV standpoint - to VPN. I think it’s kind of six of one half dozen of another as far as overall effort, but I REALLY don’t want unmanaged home PC’s connecting via VPN… David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
