Terminal Services, Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, I pointed out the benefits of using Windows 2000 Server Terminal Services to administer remote servers—even over the Internet—and I showed you how to set up Terminal Services for remote administration. Here, in Part 2, I’ll discuss some of the other features available in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Terminal Services Configuration snap-in and how to use these features to secure your server.

Terminal Services provides configuration options at the server, connection, and user level. You can view server-level options by opening the MMC Terminal Services Configuration snap-in and selecting the Server Settings folder. Although the server and user-level settings are not relevant to security when you run Terminal Services in remote administration mode, several connection-level settings are important to security when running Terminal Services. . . .