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Nov 15, 2016

RDP over HTTPS with SAML and SSO

I wonder if anyone configured something similar already. We will have RDP connections coming in as HTTPS (encapsulated). I found 2 ways of doing it in the documentation:

 

  1. LTM only where F5 treats it as HTTPS and does not look further
  2. LTM+APM where the F5 will extract the RDP session and send RDP connections to the back-end.

The extra requirement is that we use SAML to redirect the user to get a Kerberos ticket from an external IDP and allow access based on that token. I think this should work regardless of which solution I chose. The second requirement is however trickier and I cannot yet test it... The user was already prompted to authenticate on the Kerberos side and should not get a second prompt from Windows RD server - SSO. We already have this setup for sharepoint but there I have HTTPS in and out and no other protocol inside. So will it work with teh 1st option given that F5 will not see the RDP traffic? I can pass the Kerberos ticket along as I do for sharepoint to get the SSO work but will the Windows server know to extract it from the HTTPS and use it? If I do the second option I send an RDP session plus the ticket so I am closer to the sharepoint HTTPS scenario so probably will work. Any ideas?

 

Regards

 

Carol

 

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