The last group of applications UAG offers are Remote Desktop applications. There are two types of remote desktop applications—one of them is the applications that are based on SSL-VPN tunneling and the second uses the Remote Desktop Gateway service on UAG. We like to refer to the SSL-VPN based templates as "legacy", because they have been a part of UAG's predecessors, IAG and e-Gap, and they haven't changed since. To the RDG-based templates we refer to as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) publishing. The RDS publishing templates rely on a service that is included with Windows 2008 R2, which provide new functionality for publishing RemoteApps.
The purpose of these templates, of course, is to let you launch a remote desktop session to an internal server, and that's no small feat, as the remote desktop protocol is not a web-based protocol. With UAG's predecessors, this could be done by tunneling the traffic, and that's what the legacy templates are about—they establish...