This article contains an overview of the Workspot Gateway Plugin, a summary of recent releases, and links to related articles.
Overview
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The Workspot Gateway Plugin.
The Workspot Gateway Plugin allows end-users to authenticate themselves to Workspot desktops and cloud applications that require OIDC-based authentication, such as that provided by Entra ID, Okta and other third-party identity providers. The Gateway Plugin works with Microsoft Remote Desktop Gateway, used by Workspot in its Managed Gateways.
Specifically, the Gateway Plugin is a Pluggable Authentication and Authorization (PAA) module for the Microsoft Remote Desktop Gateway that runs on Windows Server 2016 or higher. The server does not need to be domain joined.
Entra ID/Okta/OIDC authentication of desktops and applications is a Workspot selective feature called Entra ID Only, referring to its use instead of Active Directory on both your Workspot Clients and your Workspot desktops/app. This is the use case the requires the Gateway Plugin. If Client users sign in with Entra ID/Okta/OIDC but then sign into their desktops/apps with Active Directory authentication (the non-Entra-ID-only case), the Gateway Plugin is not required.
Installation and configuration are typically handled by Workspot Gateway Agent based on configuration in Workspot Control. Manual installation is possible, but it is typically performed by Workspot and is not covered here.
Recent and Upcoming Releases
Release 7.1.0.
Scheduled for November 22, 2025.
A bug that could cause authentication failures on the Windows Client when they were encoded differently, apparently due to containing non-Western characters, has been fixed.