DirectAccess is typically a "set it and forget it" technology. Once you have all of the settings, certificates, and so on finished, and you have a successful DirectAccess client connected, there isn't a lot of day-to-day troubleshooting that you will encounter. Inevitably though you are bound to someday have a client that doesn't work for one reason or another, and you will want to have the capability to dig under the hood and figure out what is going on with that connection. Today, we are going to talk about the most common troubleshooting procedures you will use; including a close look over the extensive logfile that can be generated from the client computers should you ever have the need.
We are going to cover the following points:
Remote Access Management Console
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
Reading the client logfiles
What happened to Teredo?
Clients with native IPv6