From The Community #7 – GP and VPN Connections

A question in the Dynamics GP forums was posted on the following issue:

“We have a remote location which is currently accessing GP through terminal services.  We would like to have a more secure connection using a VPN connection.  Our partner has indicated that there may be issues with a VPN connection.  Has anyone tried it?  Is it working?  Is it supported?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.”

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/p/35405/61942.aspx

While it is not impossible to transmit data from a remote GP client to a headquartered GP server over a VPN connection, it just simply is not feasible.  The amount of data that is transmitted back and forth from a client to the server in GP is too great to expect any type of acceptable performance over a VPN connection (unless you are one of the lucky few to be chosen for Google’s Fiber).  The best scenario, and one that I practice in our business, is to have a secured VPN connection and run Remote Desktop (ala Terminal Server) over the VPN connection to a GP client located on the same network as the GP server.