The TS Gateway role service is a much welcomed addition to the TS services lineup in
that it facilitates securing your terminal servers by controlling access to them at your perimeter
and allows you to keep your servers within your secure network. TS Gateway is
also NAP-aware and can participate in verifying client health to ensure that only clients
that comply with your client health policies can access it. For those who host extranets,
TS Web Access adds even more value by making it easy to link to applications through
your Web server. This is useful if you don??™t control the clients connecting and deploying
.RDP or .MSI files.
At the surface, it may seem that the new functionality Microsoft has provided for Terminal
Services in Windows Server 2008 is designed to eliminate the need for third-party
systems such as Citrix. This is certainly not the case. Although Terminal Services now
has much of the missing functionality that many administrators found with third-party
companies in the past, it still is not a truly enterprise production??“scale solution. The
out-of-the-box solution is a good option for small environments or environments with
medium to light remote application use and that have fairly uncomplicated configuration
requirements. For true, enterprise production??“class remote access server farms, you
will probably still want to look at Microsoft??™s partner solutions that layer on top of this
new core functionality to get what you need.
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