RE: Securing Remote access for RDP (Terminal Services)

  • From: "Thor \(Hammer of God\)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:09:54 -0800

Oh, then no, I'm not sure. My default action is to only bind services to adpaters that a I know will be used. I was not aware of this feature in 2004, so thanks for the info and correction!

t

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: [isalist] RE: Securing Remote access for RDP (Terminal Services)



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Hey Tim,

RE: #1 -- you sure about that? ISA Server 2004 has a "port stealing"
feature that makes this not required. It might have been the case for
ISA Server 2000, but not now. I have it working now without having to
make changes to the Terminal Services configuration and can publish
internal RDP servers and the RDP server on the ISA firewall.

Next week,
Tom

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-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:31 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] RE: Securing Remote access for RDP
(Terminal Services)

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I know Doc already replied, but to specifically answer the
last question,
Yes, the TSAC client will use the server publishing RDP rule
to communicate
with the terminal server.   The client is (apparently) using the Web
Publishing rule to access the TSAC itself, then, once the
TSAC is loaded
into the client's memory, the client will connect to the
server using RDP.

A couple of Q's-

1) You don't have RDP bound to the external interface on the
ISA server
itself, right?  By default, in Terminal Server Configuration,
any server
with Remote Desktop enabled will bind RDP to all available
interfaces.  If
you are publishing RDP on the ISA Box, the external interface
of the ISA
itself can't be bound to RDP.  If you do indeed have Remote
Desktop enabled
on the ISA box, go into Terminal Server Configuration, right
click on the
RDP protocol, go to properties, select the Network Adapters
tab, and select
the internal adapter you wish to use to bind RDP to.   Then
you can publish
RDP from the external interface to the internal box while
still allowing RDP
connections on the ISA's internal interface.

2) The TSAC client can directly hit the external interface of
the ISA box
with RDP (3389) right?  Some people tend to think that the
TSAC does some
sort of RDP proxying - it provides the client with the
ActiveX control- the
client must still be able to hit the ISA box directly...  Can
you connect
with the default RDP client on the client box? (mstsc.exe)

t



----- Original Message ----- From: "Raji Arulambalam" <rajia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: [isalist] RE: Securing Remote access for RDP
(Terminal Services)



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Hi

I followed as described in article KB895433 for using
certificate based
authentication for RDP clients.
This worked fine, but I came to grief when I tried to access the
Terminal Server via the TSAC web client. I got the error message that
the server was unavailable giving 3 different reasons.
I have both Web and Server publishing rules for the IIS and terminal
servers.
Does the TSAC client use the server published (RDP)rule to communicate
with the Terminal server?

The ISA server 2000 was setup as using To's article
http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Publishing_Terminal_Service
s_and_the_
TSAC_Client__Updated.html

How do I get both working?

RajiA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:41 AM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Securing Remote access for RDP
> (Terminal Services)
>
> http://www.ISAserver.org
>
> To be specific, one can indeed use SSL for RDP connections.
> Win2k3 allows specifying certificate-based TLS authentication
> at the server by installing a valid cert, specifying SSL as
> the security layer, and then choosing what encryption level
> you want, all the way to 140 bit FIPS as described in
> KB895433.  But this, as you pointed out, has nothing to do
> with ISA other than publishing RDP.
>
> t
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