Re: ISA VPN and non web applications

"Sharon Clift" <Shaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know that ISA VPN works well with web applications but how is it with think

VPN has nothing to do with Web applications.
ISA "publishes" Web Sites using "web Publishing",...but that has nothing to do
with VPN.

(rich) client applications? We are thinking of using it so that some of our
users can access the practice management system (based on an sql
database) and the digital dication system and of course Microsoft Office.

Web Application are "service based" Applications. Those ISA can publish but
cause it publishes the *service*. You cannot publish "end user" applications,
there is no "service" to publish.

We would rather have direct access to these programs than use remote
desktop to take control of the user's office PC.

What you are asking about is an Application Gateway,...that is not what ISA
server is. What you need is the MS Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG). They
do throw around the term VPN in the context of IAG but it is not the same thing
as a Point to Point data connection between two networks over PPTP or L2TP, or
IPSec. I disagree with their use of the tern "VPN" in that context, but
nobody cares what I think.

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