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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

<p>Windows Server 2016 is an operating system designed to run on today’s highly performant servers, both on-premise and in the cloud. It supports enterprise-level data storage, communications, management, and applications. This book builds off a basic knowledge of the Windows Server operating system, and assists administrators with taking the security of their systems one step further. </p> <p>You will learn tips for configuring proper networking, especially on multi-homed systems, and tricks for locking down access to your servers.</p> <p>Then you will move onto one of the hottest security topics of the year – certificates. You will learn how to build your own PKI, or how to better administer one that you already have. You will publish templates, issue certificates, and even configure autoenrollment in your network.</p> <p>When we say “networking” we don’t only mean inside the LAN. To deal safely with mobile devices, you will learn about the capabilities of Windows Server 2016 for connecting these assets securely back into the corporate network, with information about DirectAccess and VPN. </p> <p>The material in the book has been selected from the content of Packt's Windows Server 2016 Cookbook by Jordan Krause to provide a specific focus on these key Windows Server tasks.</p>
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Enabling Network Load Balancing on your DirectAccess servers


DirectAccess is designed so that you always get a single server environment up-and-running first before you start tinkering with arrays or load balancing. This way you can validate that all of the environmental factors are in place and working and that you can successfully build DA tunnels from your client computers before introducing any further complexity into the design. Once established, however, it is a common next step to look into turning up another new server and creating some redundancy for your new remote access solution.

While joining two similar servers together to share the load is commonly called clustering, and sometimes I hear admins refer to it as such in the DirectAccess world, load balancing DA servers together actually has nothing to do with Windows Clustering. When you install both the remote access role and the Network Load Balancing feature onto your remote access servers, you have already equipped them with...