How Microsoft Uses TS Gateway For Remote Access
Wednesday, 05 March 2008 by Michel Roth
Microsoft is used to eating it's own proverbial dogfood. Proverbial because I'm sure the Microsoft cafeterias should be OK (I wouldn't know). One particular piece of dogfood that I was pretty interested in was Microsoft's TS Gateway pilot implementation. I knew that they were running this pilot but know they have published their results.

As it turns out, the TS Gateway is pretty enterprise ready. Well, it would be tempting to assume to view the TS Gateway as Enterprise ready is you read that Microsoft performed an extended pilot with 85,000 session per month. It did not start out this way. Microsoft took the "eat your own dogfood" one step further. Think of it like "eat your own dog food that your department made". The pilot started out with Microsoft making the pilot available only to members of the Terminal Services development group. This deployment gave the initial TS Gateway configuration a load of approximately 200 users. Take a look at the Ts Web Access landing page Microsoft made:

TS Portal page

After this pilot being a huge success, the pilot was expanded to include 4 more locations. This yielded some interesting usage statistics:

 

Usage statistic

Redmond

Dublin

Singapore

Total number of users

5,190

299

292

Users who have more than one logon in a month

4,567

225

232

Users who have more than 10 logons in a month

2,114

68

50

Total resources accessed

7,466

301

341

 

 

Load statistic

Redmond

Dublin

Singapore

Total number of sessions

80,647

2,547

1,869

Total gigabytes sent

156

2

1

Total gigabytes received

1,871

31

14

This document shares the experiences of the deployment team in the deployment of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services at Microsoft. Also, because of the experience that the team gained during the deployment, this information should provide meaningful guidance to organizations that want to deploy Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services in both small and large terminal server environments.

Read How MSIT Uses Terminal Services as a Scalable Remote Access Solution.


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