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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

RDP to a DirectAccess client


IPv6 routing established via ISATAP tunnels? Check. Firewall rules on the DirectAccess clients to allow this traffic? Check. Now we are really ready to test. Log onto one of your newly furnished ISATAP machines inside the network, and try to contact a DirectAccess computer by name. A common first test is ping, which is fine, though if we get down into the nitty-gritty, we would find that ICMP traffic actually moves outside of the IPsec tunnels, and so a successful ping reply doesn't necessarily mean that everything is working. It usually does though. Otherwise, the most common testing platform is an RDP connection. This, of course, implies that you have enabled the system rule on those systems to allow RDP connections in the first place and that 3389 is one of the ports you allowed in the rules we created a few minutes ago. If those things are in place, you should now be able to open up the Remote Desktop Client from your ISATAP connected machine, type in the...