I was troubleshooting remote access for a customer when I decided to try to connect to the clients machine using the built-in RDP client. I used the customers computer name as the computer to connect to and the external website name as the gateway address. I clicked connect and much to my surprise it started to connect, gave me a warning about not trusting the machine's certificate, which I promptly by-passed and viola I was connected to their machine without going through the website.
This can come in real handy when you just can't get that darn self signed server certificate installed\ on the home computer. I would have to assume that the proper permissions would need to be in place in the Console as far as connecting to the computer, I have not tested this. Beats having to configure the firewall and the registry to use some non-standard port so a customer can get right into their machine.
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