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Copper Contributor

Apr 19, 2017

Port Mapping on new Azure Portal

We needed to access to one of our VM via RDP protocol from a customer location where RDP ports are restricted on Firewall. I searched internet for a way to map default 3389 RDP port to 443 so I can a...

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Kent Gaardmand

Steel Contributor

Apr 20, 2017

why would you want to map 443 (the SSL Default) to 3389, what are you trying to achieve ? I'm just curious, have you considered a Remote desktop Gateway ?

Huseyin Bilgen

Copper Contributor

Apr 20, 2017

Hi Kent,

In general, information can be used for any port. So 3389 is an example and can be adapted to any port mapping.

Answer to your question is: Think that you needed to connect to the system where firewall prevents you to connect default RDP port. So it is not possible to setup Remote desktop Gateway.

Regards

Kent Gaardmand
Steel Contributor
Apr 22, 2017
Hi huseyin

The RDP gateway provides en encrypted tunnel via 443 from the end user to RDP GW and once in your internal network port 3389 is used to connect to any machine you allowed on your internal network.
therefor you dont acutally need to do port mapping.

Any just wanted to suggest an alternate solution to your specific problem, the RDP gw can also use MFA and provide you with a more secure solution.

but nice contribution on showing port mapping in general.

kind regards