Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment

Book Image

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

Dynamic cloud access with URA


Let's see how these goals can be met with Windows Server 2012. In order for the mobile users to connect to the organizational network, they can use either DirectAccess or VPN. When you move resources to the cloud, you need to maintain the same address space of the resources so that your users are impacted by this change as little as possible. When you move a server or an entire network to the cloud, you can establish a Site-to-Site (S2S) connection through an edge gateway. Imagine you have a global deployment with many remote sites, a couple of public cloud data centers and some of your own private cloud. As the number of these remote sites grow, the number of Site-to-Site links needed will grow exponentially. If you have to maintain a gateway server or device for the Site-to-Site connections and another gateway for remote access such as VPN or DirectAccess, the maintenance cost associated with it can increase dramatically.

One of the most significant new abilities...