One of the killer features of Small Business Server 2003 is the Remote Web Workplace - RWW for short. Within it you can access many internal resources using nothing more than a simple web browser. One of the key features that most people use is the "Connect to my computer" feature - often in fact many people call THIS single feature RWW which only serves to confuse issues at … [Read more...]
What is Remote.dll?
Remote.dll is the actual backend of the RWW system. It was created by the SBS 2003 development team to pass data through from the external port 4125 to the internal port of 3389 for the RDP sessions, among other things. It s basically the engine of RWW, located in the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\remote directory. It s not the type of thing you should be messing with at all, but I … [Read more...]
Disabling Specific Users from Using RWW
Complete the following procedure to disable specific users from using RWW. 1. Logon as the Administrator on the SBS 2003 server machine. 2. From Start, and select Server Management and select Users in the console tree. 3. In the Details pane, click the user name that you want to disable (e.g. Norm Hasborn). 4. Select Change User Properties. 5. In the User Properties … [Read more...]
Stopping Certain PCs from Appearing in the RWW Interface
By default, SBS 2003 shows all Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000/2003 Application Terminal Servers available for users to connect to in the RWW interface. You can stop specific PCs from appearing. This is a popular feature of SBS 2003 that is actually already available, just hidden under the covers. To implement it you will need to add a Registry key to the SBS server: … [Read more...]
Changing the Port for RWW to Something Other than 4125
In some circumstances we have changed the port that the RDP session runs over the internet to the SBS 2003 server from 4125 to something else to get around specific limitations of a firewall or other device. Altering the port number is quite simple: 1. Run Regedit. 2. Navigate down the tree to the following key: … [Read more...]