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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

Chapter 5. Unique DirectAccess Troubleshooting Scenarios

This chapter is going to reflect some of the unique and perhaps strange scenarios that I have encountered in the field when working with DirectAccess. Some of these cross my desk fairly regularly, and some are definitely from left field. Either way, they are all potential cases that you may someday encounter, and during our discussion of these specific topics you will also gain some more in-depth knowledge about the way that DirectAccess works, how name resolution is handled, and the flow of packets in the tunnels. Knowledge is power! Let's get some.

What we are going to talk about:

  • What happens when NLS is offline?

  • I enabled NLB and DA broke!

  • IPv4 applications don't connect over DA

  • Cannot contact some servers