In our company, we are currently testing whether it would be possible to work from the home office directly via the vpn without having to rely on a virtual computer within the company.
This means that previously, when working at home, the user would connect to the tunnel using the OpenVPN client and then connect to their virtual machine using RDP.
Now we want to change so that the RDP connection is omitted and the office software connects directly to our servers.
This also works in principle. However, we are confronted with some problems, where I could use some approaches.
We use:
- MS Surface Pro 7 as user computer
- Sophos UTM 9 as VPN server
- OpenVPN as VPN Client (TCP)
- Exchange Server 2016
- Outlook 2016 / 365 (both same behavior)
- Stable bandwidth of the connection is guaranteed
The problems:
- Outlook responds very slowly in general
- Program does not give any response for no apparent reason
- The connection breaks off completely to the exchange server
- Users report that often a connection to the exchange is only possible after a complete restart of the computer.
- Connection terminates as soon as a mailbox is changed
Are you aware of such problems? If further information is needed, I will be happy to provide it.