Hello Customers, In this post, I will go through the steps to configure to deploy Network Policy Server (NPS) based RADIUS server to authenticate and authorize the remote access connections coming from RRAS based VPN server. I will try to go through different...

Hello Customers, In this post, I will go through the steps to configure to deploy RRAS as a VPN server. I will try to go through different configuration scenarios in order to point you to various configuration options in RRAS server role. However for...

Hello Customers, In my last few articles , I discussed about the design guidelines to consider before deploying  a remote access solution. In the next few articles, I will go through the steps to configure the various components  of the remote...

Hello Customers, In this post, I will highlight on various placement requirements related to RAS server. 5. 1 NAT Routers A VPN server machine can sit behind a NAT router as long as following requirements are met: For SSTP, NAT port redirection or bi...

Hello Customers, In this post, I will walk through some aspects on IP addressing, routing and name resolution related design guidelines. 4. 1 IP Addressing The VPN client machine will have minimum two IP addresses – one that it gets from ISP through which...

Hello Customers, In this post, I will walk through the most important topic – which authentication protocol, VPN tunnel to use, how to authorize access of your VPN users. Lets have a look: 3. 1 User Authentication The remote access user is authenticated...

Hello Customers, In this post, I will walk through the different ways in which you can enable VPN functionality on the remote access devices (desktops, laptops used by your remote access users). Lets look at the various choices: 2.1 Operating Systems...

Hello Customers, In last few releases, we have added plenty of “cool” features in RAS – like NAP based health check, SSTP based SSL tunnel, IPv6 support in Vista SP1/WS08 and IKEv2 based IPSec tunnel in Windows 7/WS08 R2. As a result, we have seen a lot...

As the usage of non-English languages in usernames becomes more and more popular it is important to use the right kind of format for the characters so that the entire character set in these international languages is correctly represented. In Vista/LH...