In this section, you will gain an understanding of the steps needed to configure a point-to-site VPN. This is the type of cross-premises network configuration you would use when you don't have an appropriate VPN device for a site-to-site connection, or you only have a very small number of clients that you need to connect to. The process is similar but not identical for a site-to-site configuration. You will probably need advice from the network administrator when it comes to configuring this for a production environment.

This task can be broken down into three major steps: