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Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting

By : Jordan Krause
Book Image

Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

DirectAccess is an amazing Microsoft technology that is truly the evolution of VPN; any Microsoft-centric shop needs this technology. DirectAccess is an automatic remote access solution that takes care of everything from planning to deployment. Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting will provide you with the precise steps you need to take for the very best possible implementation of DirectAccess in your network. You will find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions from administrators and explore unique troubleshooting scenarios that you will want to understand in case they happen to you. Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting outlines best practices for configuring DirectAccess in any network. You will learn how to configure Manage Out capabilities to plan, administer, and deploy DirectAccess client computers from inside the corporate network. You will also learn about a couple of the lesser-known capabilities within a DirectAccess environment and the log information that is available on the client machines. This book also focuses on some specific cases that portray unique or interesting troubleshooting scenarios that DirectAccess administrators may encounter. By describing the problem, the symptoms, and the fixes to these problems, the reader will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the way DirectAccess works and why these external influences are important to the overall solution.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. DirectAccess Environmental Best Practices

Now that we have the applicable knowledge of bringing a DirectAccess server online successfully and in a standardized fashion, let's talk about some other factors that you will definitely want to consider for your infrastructure. In this chapter, we will discuss some of the common points of confusion surrounding DirectAccess and its requirements, and I'll do my best to lay out the pros and cons to each aspect as I see them. There's no bias here, as you can see, I will plainly state that some of the "features" that are now available in 2012 are bad ideas in my opinion, and I'll recommend that you steer clear of some things to stick with a best practices approach.

We are going to talk about the following concepts:

  • To NAT or not to NAT?

  • Planning for Certificates (Public Key Infrastructure)

  • Defining your Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and security groups

  • Setting up the Network Location Server (NLS)

  • Do I need IPv6 or ISATAP?

  • Teredo and 6to4 tips and...