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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to effectively administer and manage your Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in enterprise environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393076
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Learning the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Core Infrastructure Tasks 3. Security and Networking 4. Working with Certificates 5. Internet Information Services 6. Remote Access 7. Remote Desktop Services 8. Monitoring and Backup 9. Group Policy 10. File Services and Data Control Index

Changing the RDP port on your server to hide access


Everybody uses RDP. Attackers and bots, curiously, also know that everybody uses RDP. If you are working with perimeter servers that are potentially connected to the internet, having RDP enabled can be especially dangerous because it is quite easy to leave your server in a state where it is open from outside your network. This gives anyone the ability to start guessing passwords or trying to brute force their way into your server; or they can just be a way to give you some denial-of-service headaches by throwing thousands of login attempts at that server.

Even aside from the worries of potential access from the public Internet, you may want to ensure that regular users aren't trying to poke around where they shouldn't be by opening up RDP connections to servers within your network. There are a few ways that you could restrict this access. You could come up with some creative firewall rules that only allow RDP access from certain subnets...

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