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How do I allow remote desktop connections through an ISA 2004 Server?

We have external clients that need to access their servers which are external to our network. Can someone please provide me with step by step instructions of how to allow remote desktop connections through our ISA server. I am new to ISA, so please be patient with me :-)
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If you are new to ISA then you really should be getting someone trained up. ISA is not a simple application like Exchange.

open the ISA gui.
Select the firewall policy on the left - right-click it and select new - publish a non web server.
Select the remote desktop/terminal services protocol and select the internal IP address that you want to RDP onto from outside and select EXTERNAL as the listener network.

on the workstation to be remotely controlled, make sure remote control is enabled from the computer properties.

On the external router, make sure tcp port 3389 is forwarded to the ISA external IP address.

Job done
you have to allow rdp protocol between the clients and the servers
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Thanks for your help, but I am wanting to remote desktop into an external server through our internal network via ISA. I think what you have stated is to access our server from external. Forgive me if I am wrong with this.
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Many Thanks for all your help with this.
Step by step instructions were great. Many Thanks again
welcome :)