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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

Teredo and 6to4 tips and tricks


You already know that when possible, you want users connecting through DirectAccess by utilizing the more efficient protocols. IP-HTTPS works very well, particularly for the Windows 8 clients, but let's discover a couple of quick tricks you can have up your sleeve to increase the utilization of Teredo as our preferred tunneling method.

Set Teredo to EnterpriseClient

There are different modes, or statuses, that you can set Teredo to use on the DirectAccess client computers. By default, Teredo is set to Client. There is one big downside to running this way, if your DirectAccess client computer is currently plugged into a network that is a domain network (any domain, not just your own), Teredo will not connect by design. A good example of this is one of your users visiting a customer site and plugging in their laptop while they are there. If Teredo recognizes that a domain exists on that network, it will not connect. In this case, IP-HTTPS should pick up the slack...