While remote network administration can be a great convenience to your IT staff, it should be used with great trepidation as remote network administration constitutes a large security hole. If admin access is restricted locally, only people physically on site have the ability to change the network settings of the LAN that protect your mission critical data, but if the network can be administered remotely then it is very possible that a talented hacker could break in and start using your company LAN for nefarious purposes that we don't want to being to discuss here. So unless there is a strong reason to allow for remote network administration, such as to support remote workers in the form of brilliant system administrators who simply cannot be on site very often (though even that I would say isn't reason to risk the potential security problem), don't allow your network to be administered remotely.

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