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Network Level Authentication
Network Level Authentication (NLA) is another new component of RDC v6.0 that effectively rearranges the order in which clients connect to Terminal Servers. Why is this necessary? From a security perspective, the original architecture of how clients connect to Terminal Servers was actually backwards.
Backwards, you say? Think about the “old” mechanism you would go through to connect your client to a remote Terminal Server:
More info and links to all the posts in this series at Greg’s Realtime Windows Server Community…
