Hello all. There have been quite a few questions/posts on the technet forums about issues you folks have seen with Windows Vista VPN clients. So we thought we would come up with a post on the common configuration issues and some troubleshooting tips....

Hi All, I am sure lot of queries may be running in your minds related to SSTP. To clarify it further, I am starting a series of frequently asked questions (FAQ) related to SSTP. Please feel free to send your comments on the blog site or to our blog...

Hi Folks, Our team member Samir Jain has posted a nice blog on how you should decide which tunnel to use/deploy for your scenario. The details for the same are given at which tunnel to use . In this blog, I would like to understand further on a...

In this FAQ, I will cover client specific queries of SSTP 1) How to enable SSTP based VPN connection on the client side? SSTP based -connection can be enabled on native RAS client UI (i.e. inside “network and sharing center”). For further details...

By now, from all the other posts you might be aware of steps required to configure SSTP server to accept HTTPS connections. SSTP also supports being configured behind a SSL terminator (HTTP Reverse Proxy scenario). With this setup, a SSL terminator can...

In this blog, I will explain how SSTP based VPN tunnel works - i.e. the data flow during VPN connection coming up and how data transfer occurs. The flow to get VPN connection up looks like: 1) Client gets Internet connectivity and then establishes...

Hello Friends, As you know – Windows7 RC is out and we will like to hear back from you ! In Windows7, we did couple of changes on the remote access client that includes dialup, broadband (aka PPPoE) and VPN scenarios. Windows7 brings in simpler connectivity...

VPN Reconnect: A New Tunnel for Mobility Has your file download or a Line of Business application (LOB) ever got interrupted just because your internet connection went down momentarily and you had to start it all over again ? You will never have...

Hello folks, My name is Aanand Ramachandran and I am the Program Manager for the Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS) component of Windows Networking. Windows 7 has received great response at WinHec and PDC. I am sure a lot of you must be very...

Hi folks, It's again that exciting time of the year when the next version of Windows is going to make it to the markets. Win7 boasts of several cool features that promise to transform the lives of people and make computers more effective and easier...

Hi Folks It is almost time for the windows 7 to hit the market. We have incorporated a lot of cool features to make your life simpler in this version of Windows. Now let us see if we can get you hooked to these features even before Windows 7 releases...

Little Background: Microsoft RRAS server and VPN client supports PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, SSTP and IKEv2 based VPN connection. PPTP control path is over TCP and data path over GRE. L2TP tunnel traffic is carried over IPSec transport mode and IPSec protocol internally...

Hi All, I am very happy to announce that SSTP will be first time released to all our TAP and techbeta customers via Vista SP1 beta and Windows Server 2008 RC0 release which was released on Sept 25th, 2007 To get your hands dirty with SSTP, work...

If you are running firewall infront of your RRAS server (i.e. between internet and RRAS) , then following are the relevant ports which needs to be opened on the firewall for VPN connectivity to be successful: a) PPTP tunnel based VPN uses TCP Port...

I heard a lot of queries related to server side and in this FAQ, I will try to cover most of them. In this article, I will be using "SSTP server" which is RRAS server enabled to accept SSTP based VPN connection. 1) Does SSTP server works on top of...

We have seen the steps to configure a SSTP server in one of the previous posts. However, we will concentrate on on aspect of the configuration in this post in detail and the most important one too, because without this your server is not yet ready to...

Hi All, In Longhorn, Routing and remote access server role supports IPv6 (in addition to IPv4). In this blog, I will give a quick summary on what are the scenarios that are supported and what changes are required to enable the same. This will also...

Microsoft RRAS includes a stateless 5 tuple packet filter - also called as Inbound & Outbound packet filters (or static filters). These filters can be applied on any interface - public, private OR per PPP connection too or in other words - it can...

Hi Folks, I have seen a lot of IP addressing, NIC, NAT related queries in different newsgroups. This blog is aimed to give you a quick view on this. First the basics on IP address/routing on RRAS perspective: Broadly there are two set of machines...

Hello Customers, As I wrote in this blog, there are four types of VPN tunnel supported by Windows 7 based VPN clients. In this blog I will focus on following things: how do you configure tunnel types on the client, how to decide on the tunnel type...

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 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...

Hello Folks, I am sure you must have experienced VPN reconnect – a new IKEv2 based VPN tunnel that is added in Windows 7 that allows automatic and seamless switchover of an active VPN connection when the underlying Internet interface (connection...

By now, you probably are aware of this new VPN tunneling protocol which can work across NAT, web proxies and firewall. If you are familiar with the Windows Vista way of configuring and using VPN, go to the connection "Properties" page and change the ...

Hi Folks, In this blog, I will try to summarize the frequently asked questions about VPN Network access protection (NAP). Please feel free to comment on this blog - if you have more questions and I will answer & subsequently add those :) Q:...