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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

About the Author

Jordan Krause is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security, and specializes in DirectAccess, which is a part of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 and Unified Remote Access (URA) in Windows Server 2012. As a Senior Engineer and Security Specialist for IVO Networks, he spends the majority of each workday planning, designing, and implementing DirectAccess for companies all over the world.

Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds Microsoft certifications as an MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator. He regularly writes tech notes and articles about some of the fun and exciting ways that DirectAccess can be used, which can be found at http://www.ivonetworks.com/news/.

He also strives to spend time helping the DirectAccess community, mostly by way of the Microsoft TechNet forums. Jordan is always open to direct contact for answering questions or helping out in any way that he can, so don't hesitate to head over to the forums and find him personally.