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...]
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...]
Modifying the Public Timeout Values for RWW
I mentioned earlier that the default of 20 minutes on a public computer is way too long. Therefore, I recommend that you change this value to 5 or 10 minutes to provide increased protection for your system in case a user walks away from a public kiosk without logging off. 1. Run Regedit. 2. Navigate down the tree to the following key: … [Read more...]
Changing the Company Name in the RWW Display Screen
I have used this modification on our demonstration SBS 2003 server. Prior to going out to demo SBS to a new customer, I alter the displayed name to be that of the customer I am going to see. This gives the customer a degree of ownership even before they get the quote for the new system. 1. Run Regedit. 2. Navigate down the tree to the following key: … [Read more...]
Adding CompanyWeb to RWW on SBS 2003 Premium
When SBS 2003 was released, there was an error involving how the CEICW configured itself with respect to ISA 2000. In particular, it failed to publish the CompanyWeb via the RWW portal. This was noticeable as the links to access the company s internal Web site were missing from the RWW interface. You can easily fix this with a few additional tweaks to the configuration. At … [Read more...]