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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

Adding VPN to your existing DirectAccess server


It is fairly common when starting work with the new remote access role for administrators to choose the Deploy DirectAccess only option. Maybe you initially thought this box was only going to be used for DA, or that all of your client connections would be handled by only the DA role. While this is true for some organizations, it is pretty common to get some benefit from having both DirectAccess and VPN configured on your remote access entry point. Maybe you have some mobile phones or personal tablets that you want connected to the corporate network. Or perhaps you want to give the ability for home computers, or even Macs, to connect remotely. Another reason that enterprises are looking to enable VPN on their DirectAccess servers is to start testing or playing around with Always On VPN. These are scenarios that are outside the scope of DirectAccess and require some other form of VPN connectivity.

Making significant changes on a production server...