Remote Desktop Services is a robust role in the windows role group. RDS is used to remote into the central RDS server or any member server or the user’s desktop computer through the RDS server using the Remote Desktop web services either on the internal network or through the internet.
This article discusses the access of the servers and desktops accessed over the internet using RD Gateway using the https port. The Servers and desktops on the on-premises can be accessed without the need RDP port 3389 opened on the firewall. Where the RDP port 3389 is the hacking target for hackers over the internet. As the https port used for the access of remote desktop, the port is usually used for most of the businesses to access the webserver hosted internally.
The Remote Desktop Services will be cost-effective when the number of users or devices accessing applications with an excessive amount of licenses needed. Also, this role is most useful where the client computers installed on the company network or home is not the latest, and the application demands such as hardware or operating systems.
We are going to delve deep into this installation and configuration on an active directory domain network with network policy server (NPS) security. We are using a public CA certificate in this demonstration and hostname assigned on the public DNS.
The following points discussed in this article. Following this article, one can install and configure Remote Desktop Services on a Windows Server 2019 and publish the RDP app to access a server or a desktop as per need on the remote desktop web app portal.
To begin with, the demonstration, let’s add the Remote desktop Roles group on the server manager and going forward to configure each component.
