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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 IPv6 for complex networks


IPv6 has been around for quite a while, but still, most organizations in the United States are still clinging to IPv4 with both hands. This year was particularly significant for IPv6, as some of the major public websites such as Bing, Google, Facebook, and others enabled IPv6 for their services and products (http://www.worldipv6launch.org/). This makes IPv6 a whole lot harder to ignore.

If you are deploying URA, IPv6 will become much more important to you, even if it doesn't get you as excited as us. URA was designed to offer full functionality with little knowledge of IPv6 and without any need to deploy it, but if you do want to make the best use of this technology, there might be a thing or two for you to tweak.

ISATAP and you

In case you don't remember, ISATAP is a technology which automatically assigns IPv6 addresses to your IPv6-capable hosts on the corporate network. When the URA wizard runs, it checks whether your network has IPv6 running, and if...