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Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment

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Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment

Overview of this book

DirectAccess, introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2, has been a ground breaking VPN-like connectivity solution, adopted by thousands of organizations worldwide. Allowing organizations to deploy without manually configuring every client and providing always-on connectivity has made this technology world-famous. Now, with Windows Server 2012, this has been made even easier to deploy, with a new friendly user interface, easy-start wizard and built in support tools.With Unified Remote Access, Windows server 2012 offers a unique way to provide remote access that is seamless and easier to deploy than traditional VPN solutions. With URA, the successor to DirectAccess, your users can have full network connectivity that is always-on. If you have deployed Windows Server 2012 or are planning to, this book will help you implement Unified Remote Access from concept to completion in no time!Unified Remote Access, the successor to DirectAccess, offers a new approach to remote access, as well as several deployment scenarios to best suit your organization and needs. This book will take you through the design, planning, implementation and support for URA, from start to finish."Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment" starts by exploring the mechanisms and infrastructure that are the backbone of URA, and then explores the various available scenarios and options. As you go through them, you will easily understand the ideal deployment for your own organization, and be ready to deploy quickly and easily. Whether you are looking into the simplest deployment, or a complex, multi-site or cloud scenario, "Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment" will provide all the answers and tools you will need to complete a successful deployment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tweaking the management servers list


As you may recall from the section Editing the configuration in Chapter 4, Installing and Configuring the Unified Remote Access role, the Infrastructure Server configuration (step 3 – page 4) is about management servers, so what does that mean?

Well, management servers are servers that are specifically listed in the URA policy as accessible through the first tunnel, in a scenario where the two tunnels model is used (as opposed to the one with the Kerberos proxy, and only a single tunnel). As you may recall from the preface, the purpose of the first tunnel in the 2-tunnel scenario is to provide access to your domain controllers, so that the client computer can perform Kerberos authentication and obtain the Kerberos ticket as part of establishing the second tunnel.

The Management Servers option allows you to specify servers that will be granted access through the first tunnel, in addition to DCs. This means that these servers will be fully accessible to clients...