Terminal Services Web and Terminal Services Gateway, two features in Windows 2008 Server that allows you to:
- Access Remote Servers over SSL connections from anywhere
- Access Published Applications on a remote server that have “Terminal Services” feature installed (Also in Windows 2008) .
- Control and monitor access to your network from any external network based on user level and computer level.
I had trouble hosting the TS Web and TS Gateway on the same server, they just didn’t want to live together, well, let’s say I was finally able to convince them to do so, there’s a little trick to enable them to work on the same server.
There are a lot of configuration steps that I will not include in this post. after you finish installing TS Web and TS Gateway on the same machine, you will need to edit the applications settings of TS Web in IIS 7.0.
TS Web Application Settings in IIS 7.0
You will need to specify the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the TS Gateway server in the “DefaultTSGateway” value setting, instead of using the local computer name or IP, you’ll be using the FQDN that the TS Web is published on using ISA 2006. for example, if users are connecting to TS Web on “ts.test.com”, then the value must be “ts.test.com”
Happy remote access :)
