RDS Gateway
RDS Gateway is an update to Windows Server 2012 RDS and provides the connectivity to an RDS session over a standard port 443 SSL connection. In early releases or RDS, users could only connect to Windows RDS using a proprietary port 3389 connection. Unfortunately, most organizations block nonstandard port connections for security purposes, and so if a user was connected to an Internet connection at a hotel, airport, coffee shop, or other location that blocked nonstandard ports, the user could not access Terminal Services.
Now with RDS Gateway, the remote user to the RDS Gateway connection goes over port 443, just like surfing a secured web page. Because of the use of SSL in web page access (anytime someone accesses a web page with ...
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