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There is a risk with making a RDP available over the Web. A lot depends on your password policy and how strong your user accounts are.<br />
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A safer way would be to set up VPN on demand and use VPN to establish a connection to the local network and then initiate the RDP from there.
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There is a risk with making a RDP available over the Web. A lot depends on your password policy and how strong your user accounts are.

A safer way would be to set up VPN on demand and use VPN to establish a connection to the local network and then initiate the RDP from there.

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Thank you Lester for your excellent answer.
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Thank you Lester for your excellent answer.

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Question about Remote Desktop Security. Please read it carefully before answering quick and half answers. Thank you.<br />
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1. When you have a Server 2008 R2 (standard installation) with Remote Desktop enabled, what is the security risk of making it publically accessible over the internet? Should you never do that or is the security risk limited? I know there have been removed a lot of vulnerabilities in the RDP protocol but I'm not sure what the status is today.<br />
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2. If you DO enable it are there any special things you should pay attention to?<br />
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4. Is it more advisable to only make the RDweb interface publically available or is that imposing the same security risk?<br />
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Thanks for any help in advance.
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Question about Remote Desktop Security. Please read it carefully before answering quick and half answers. Thank you.

1. When you have a Server 2008 R2 (standard installation) with Remote Desktop enabled, what is the security risk of making it publically accessible over the internet? Should you never do that or is the security risk limited? I know there have been removed a lot of vulnerabilities in the RDP protocol but I'm not sure what the status is today.

2. If you DO enable it are there any special things you should pay attention to?

4. Is it more advisable to only make the RDweb interface publically available or is that imposing the same security risk?

Thanks for any help in advance.

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