VPN?

[Mike Champion]

Patrick,

After reading what you wrote I think VPN would be the way
to go simply because the only person using the VPN will be
myself and I can setup all programs at home and after
reading I'll need licenses to do TS. Is VPN slow oevr
broadband? and what refernce material do you recommend
for VPN?

Thankyou for your help,

Mike

 

[Guest]

If you're the only person using TS you can leave it in Remote Administration/Remote Desktop for Administration Mode, which requires no setup. This is the most common way to remotely administer Windows 2000/2003/XP Pro Computers.

There's nothing wrong with VPN, but there are two distinctly different kinds (PPTP - Point to Point Tunneling Protocol and L2TP/IPSec - Layer2 Tunneling Protocol w/ IP Security). PPTP is relatively secure if you use NTLM V2 and is simple to setup. If you require rock-solid security where you can limit which computers can connect and the session is encrypted before you logon then you'll want to use L2TP/IPSec VPN, but it's much more complex to setup as it requires the use of Certificates.

VPNs don't use that much bandwidth, it's the data you transport over the connection that can be bandwidth intensive. Some companies even use VPN with dial-up connections for remote Outlook/Exchange email.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/vpn/default.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar/en/19990930TESSD/manifest.xml

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
www.workthin.com



----- Mike Champion wrote: -----

Patrick,

After reading what you wrote I think VPN would be the way
to go simply because the only person using the VPN will be
myself and I can setup all programs at home and after
reading I'll need licenses to do TS. Is VPN slow oevr
broadband? and what refernce material do you recommend
for VPN?

Thankyou for your help,

Mike

 

[Mike Champion]

Patrick,

Back to terminal Services. I installed terminal services
in application server mode but did not install terminal
services licensing...should I?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
If you're the only person using TS you can leave it in

Remote Administration/Remote Desktop for Administration
Mode, which requires no setup. This is the most common
way to remotely administer Windows 2000/2003/XP Pro
Computers.

There's nothing wrong with VPN, but there are two

distinctly different kinds (PPTP - Point to Point
Tunneling Protocol and L2TP/IPSec - Layer2 Tunneling
Protocol w/ IP Security). PPTP is relatively secure if
you use NTLM V2 and is simple to setup. If you require
rock-solid security where you can limit which computers
can connect and the session is encrypted before you logon
then you'll want to use L2TP/IPSec VPN, but it's much more
complex to setup as it requires the use of Certificates.

VPNs don't use that much bandwidth, it's the data you

transport over the connection that can be bandwidth
intensive. Some companies even use VPN with dial-up
connections for remote Outlook/Exchange email.

 

[Guest]

If you don't, TS will stop accepting connections after 120 days.

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
www.workthin.com

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

Terminal services licensing is only required if terminal
services is installed in application mode.

-M

 

[Mike Champion]

Patrick,

I installed the licensing service now TS works great. Now
I'm ready to run Applications. Today I will install
Quickbooks on the ts server and Word, is there anything
special I need to setup to run the applications?

Almost there!

Thankyou,

Mike