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Anyone have any suggestions as a safe and secure means of accessing our office server from our warehouse? I have setup VPNs before, but as I am not used to working in an enterprise environment, I wanted to make sure I had the best information and tips from Tom's has saved my bacon more than once =D
 
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Remote desktop is NOT a secure method of remote access to your server from an outside source. Yes, it's better than others, but it's not considered a secure connection. If you want to protect the connection you need to use encryption first such as via VPN. There are many different ways of setting up a VPN connection depending upon the hardware and software you have available as well as your network setup. If this connection is something that ideally needs to constantly be up instead of just utilized every once in a while to get some random data, then you should look into a site-to-site VPN connection. Again this can be done with software, but most often is done at the hardware level with a VPN capable firewall or router at both...
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Find the MAC address of the office server in the warehouse. Forward port 3389 on the router connected to the computer on the office server to that MAC address. Or forward port 3389 to the IP of the office server. This should allow you to remote desktop in by typing the public ip of that network through the Remote Desktop Connection program.
 
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Remote desktop is NOT a secure method of remote access to your server from an outside source. Yes, it's better than others, but it's not considered a secure connection. If you want to protect the connection you need to use encryption first such as via VPN. There are many different ways of setting up a VPN connection depending upon the hardware and software you have available as well as your network setup. If this connection is something that ideally needs to constantly be up instead of just utilized every once in a while to get some random data, then you should look into a site-to-site VPN connection. Again this can be done with software, but most often is done at the hardware level with a VPN capable firewall or router at both office locations. I don't really know very much about your office network, the internet connection type, etc. so I can't make direct recommendations yet, but personally for this sort of thing I have used Sonicwall firewalls as they are very easy to set up and very cost effective as well.
 
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