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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

I enabled NLB and DA broke!


Say you have a DirectAccess server up and running. Everything is going great, you have all kinds of users connected, and you are just loving it! So now that the technology has proven itself, it's time to turn up another DA server and create a cluster so you can make this thing redundant. So you follow all of the guides, bring the new server up to best practice standards, add the roles and walk through the wizards on the primary server to create the Load Balanced Cluster. The wizard is going to ask you to specify some new IP addresses, so that it can commit your existing IP addresses to be the new virtual IPs. That way, when you finish this wizard and the settings on the server side are changed, you continue to utilize the same IP addresses on the public side, so that your clients can just continue connecting like they are right now and won't have to come into the office for a Group Policy refresh before working. If the wizard utilized a new IP address for the...