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Hi,

I am the IT Administrator for a new company and am currently making my proposal for what I need us to get off and running. We just moved into a building and we need to have remote access back to the corporate network.

We have outsourced our website development to a consulting company and they recommended for remote access to stick a Windows Server 2000 box in the DMZ off of my firewall and running Terminal Services on it, then authenticate that against the domain controller. THis will allow me to buy a cheaper firewall that will cannot terminate VPN's. My vote is for VPN's and a little bit heftier firewall (Cisco ASA) and even after we purchase a box for windows 2000 to run in the DMZ, it is almost the same cost anyway.

My question is, would the RDP to the TS box be as good as running VPN's and if not, what would I be losing? We are just talking client to site connections for travelling employees.

Thanks for any help.

-Kevin

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Hi Kevin,

Please call End-User Cisco Pre-Sales Support Toll Free:

877-235-5477

or Email:

sales_enquiry *at* external.cisco.com

Cisco is very good at this.

Sincerely,

Brad Reese BradReese.Com - Global Cisco Systems Pre-Sales Support

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Brad,

I emailed the email address but no > Hi Kevin,

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K.J. 44

Kevin,

I can only give you my opnion here, but I'd deploy a firewall and vpn, and if you want to access desktops you can the run remote desktop over the vpn which is being safer anyways.

If you were to just run RDP, you would have to tunnel over SSH, RDP is prone to MITM attacks and extra security never hurts when it comes to protecting your assets.

christian

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Christian,

Thanks! You and I are on the same page, just have to convince the penny crunchers, though they are very concerned about security so hopefully it won't take too much.

Thanks.

christian koch wrote:

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K.J. 44

np Kevin,

the easiest way i've found to convince the suits is to show them real world examples..

show them how easy it is for certa> Christian,

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christian koch

Christian,

I appreciate that. i found an article that described the exact way and I included it in my proposal, however, the article was written a couple years ago so I wasn't 100% sure of its validity.

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Thanks.

christian koch wrote:

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ha yeh thats the one I was going to link

also check out

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Christian,

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