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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

Summary


ISATAP is typically misunderstood, and I hope this chapter has given you some straight-shooting information about its use in the real world. Many IPv6 guys consider ISATAP to be the red-headed stepchild of IPv6, but the reality is that there are many more companies today and in the future who are going to be running ISATAP environments, rather than real IPv6 environments. Once you know how to make ISATAP work for you and do what you want, it's really quite a useful tool. To anyone reading this that already has DirectAccess implemented in your network, check DNS for the existence of a record named ISATAP. If it exists, please take the time to delete it and set it up right, as per the instructions in this chapter. You may never thank me, because doing so means you never have to deal with strange routing or resolution problems down the road like you may have had to should you continue with your global approach.