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Sophos Central Windows Server Protection: Remote Desktop (Terminal) Services

  • Article ID: 127299
  • Updated: 3 Jul 2019
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This article provides further information on the implementation of Remote Desktop (Terminal) Services support in Sophos Central.

The following sections are covered:

Applies from the following Sophos product(s) and version(s)
Sophos Central Managed Server 2.2.4

Supported platforms

  • Windows 2008 R2 and above
  • Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR and 7.6 LTS
  • Citrix XenApp 7.1x for non LTSR versions

Supported features

All Server Protection features are supported in the following licenses:

  • Intercept X Advanced for Server with EDR
  • Intercept X Advanced for Server
  • Central Server Protection

The features that we support include:

  • Active Adversary Protection
  • Application Control
  • Anti-Virus
  • Automatic Exclusions
  • CryptoGuard
  • Cross-estate threat searching
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Deep Learning
  • Exploit Protection
  • File Integrity Monitoring
  • HIPS
  • Live Protection
  • MTD
  • Peripheral Control
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • SophosLabs threat intelligence
  • Web Control
  • Website Protection
  • WipeGuard Anti-Ransomware

Known issues

  • Desktop Messages are not user specific. The messages will show for all users connected to the server. The use of Desktop Messaging can be disabled in policy except for the following:
    • Malicious downloads, CryptoGuard and Data Loss Prevention.
  • The Server policies will be applied to all remote users connected to the Server; User based policies are not available.
  • Sophos Server Lockdown and Update Cache were not tested; therefore, these features are not supported in Remote Desktop Services/XenApp environments.

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