Ninja Feature: Remote Web Workplace in SBS2003

Yes, Tristan, us SBSers will know exactly what you mean!

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:14:00 GMT

re: Ninja Feature: Remote Web Workplace in SBS2003

Ernesto Salas — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:43:00 GMT

Tristan: I fully great the RWW is a truly great feature. THe only thing that bothers me is that you have to publish the an internal LAN server (SBS) on the internet using either direct translation or some other means to be able to use from the web. For some reason I'd have found it more pallatable to have some sort of mini-sbs/rww on an external box (maybe even on a DMZ), so that the external connections would be pure http (port 80) and then have the SBS box handle all connections to the LAN through the service specific ports. That way I would've been able to set better security (only SBS box has access to special ports, all others only have port 80 access to external SBS). By the way, this is the way Citrix handles it. Talk to you soon.

re: Ninja Feature: Remote Web Workplace in SBS2003

TristanK — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:52:00 GMT

Hi Ernesto,

Thanks for your comment. Yes, in this case, the SBS machine is exposing ports to the Internet from the internal network: 3389 for Remote Desktop admin, 4125 for the internal RDP proxy and 444 for companyweb.

You could think of this as providing quick and easy remote access to the network, without the need for purchasing a separate Terminal Server. A TS in the DMZ would be good, but it's a comparatively expensive option.

We don't have a client capable of doing a Web protocol only remote desktop connection, so Citrix are a good value-add there for the scenario you describe.

re: Ninja Feature: Remote Web Workplace in SBS2003

Susan Bradley — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:11:00 GMT

Port 80 is more attacked than 3389, 4125 and 444. I'd rather not have an exposed port 80.

Sam the SBS Server answers the question

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:59:00 GMT

Sam the SBS Server answers the question

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Arrggghh...the myths of SBS revisted

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Arrggghh...the myths of SBS revisted

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Oh Shoot! No...wait! It's okay!

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Oh Shoot! No...wait! It's okay!

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:38:00 GMT

Just keep on drooling folks

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:06:53 GMT

Is there a RWW equivalent in big server land?

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:21:08 GMT

Indy asks if there's a Remote Web Workplace equivalent in big server land....
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Remote Web Workplace

Cerebrate's Contemplations — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:04:17 GMT

Today's technical note concerns Remote Web Workplace in Small Business Server. You see, Remote Web Workplace has to make the assumption that it's only got one external IP address to play with when you set it up, so it has...