Gwen Demulder

Aurora’s log, day 2.

The most important feature to me in Small Business Server 2008 is the remote web workplace. Aurora also has some web capabilities called remote web access and I played with it this morning.

You can access the remote web access by surfing to https://remote.yourdomainname.bla . Upon loading this page you are greeted with a login windows similar to the one we had in SBS2008.

After logging in you are provided with several columns which contain items from 3 different categories. First up are the computers which are available to connect to (Remote desktop), next to that are the shared folders and finally there is a list with important links (these can be customized in the dashboard).

Connecting to the server or a client pc is pretty straight forward. You click the icon and provide the credentials. The Aurora server link however does not start a standard rdp connection. What it does do is start a remote app which contains the dashboard.

On the shared folder page you can download and upload files from and to the server. If you want to upload multiple files at once you have to use the plugin which is presented by the page.

For a complete list of available computers you can click the computer button on top.

I also stumbled upon my first beta error. Jay! It’s a minor one but it was confusing when I first saw it.

So there we have it, the remote web access feature. The shared folder part will hopefully also be integrated in the SBS 7. I also wonder if other remote apps from a terminal server can easilly be added to the list of computers.