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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

Do I need IPv6 or ISATAP?


Part of the purpose of this chapter is to clear the air about requirements and give you definitive answers to some of the common questions that I receive all the time. "Do I need IPv6?" and "What's the deal with ISATAP?", are two of those questions, and the answers to those questions mesh and interweave. The direct answer is no. I know numerous companies running successful DirectAccess for thousands of users that have absolutely no IPv6 or ISATAP configured in their network. The only reason that you would want to introduce IPv6 or ISATAP inside your network is a situation where you need to initiate outbound communications from somewhere inside your network out to a DirectAccess-connected client computer. With the myriad of different Internet based solutions that exist for this kind of remote assistance or management, this is actually a surprisingly uncommon request. But there are certainly instances where "manage out" is desired or required, and if that is the case...