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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

Defining your GPOs and security groups


I talk to a lot of people about DirectAccess. One of the most fun questions to field is "How do you install the client software". You probably know by now that there is no client software necessary, but I love it when I inform them of this and their response is "but there must be some kind of client software". Cracks me up every time. No, this is not a VPN, where you have to go through the grunt work of installing, configuring, and updating software when new releases come out, and fixing software when it breaks. I'm so sorry to all of you VPN admins out there who have to deal with this every day, because it doesn't have to be this way! Since DirectAccess clients and servers must be domain joined, it makes sense that they can take advantage of features in Active Directory, features such as Group Policy for the automatic distribution of configuration settings out to the machines.

If you are running Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise, or Windows 8 Enterprise...