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Issues/Limitations of Terminal Services

We are thinking of doing a colocation and accessing our servers through Windows Remote Destop Connection (aka Terminal Services). Everything will be done through this, emails, documents, etc.

Are there any limitations of using RDC? Is there anything that we can not do? Are there any softwares that will not run on TS? Also, if you can comment on any potential security issues of using this model, that will great.

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Thanks Guys.

JK: We will doing a colo at outside facility. Would this change anything?

Jandakel2

Yes, because you can only be assured of network security in the places that you control. If you are going to be accessing your server over a WAN, you should definitely use SSL. You will have to make sure the appropriate ports for RDC and SSL are opened and basically you will just start an SSL session (I use the console program Putty) and than you connect via the SSL connection to RDC. When I went this route, I took a hard look at who was listed in my Administrators Group, Domain Admins Group and Enterprise Admin Group, and upped my password security to 10 character alphanumeric w/ special character and disabled the Administrator account. All of these are good measures regardless, but definitely a minimum when going this route. Let me know if you need additional info...

Good Luck,

JK