Hi All, As you know, SSTP is a new VPN tunnel added in Routing and remote access server role in Windows 2008 server and Vista SP1. This allows PPP packets to be encapsulated over HTTP, hence allowing VPN connection to be established through firewalls...

Hi All, Windows Server 2008 RC0 and Vista SP1 beta has been released to our select TAP and techbeta customers (connecting via http://connect.microsoft.com/ ) This is fantastic news for Microsoft remote access customers who wants to try out all the...

Hi All, SSTP step-by-step guide is available at Windows server 2008 step-by-step guides site i.e. http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/1/0/b106fc39-936c-4857-a6ea-3fb9d1f37063/Deploying%20SSTP%20Remote%20Access%20Step%20by%20Step%20Guide.doc ...

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...

To have a better diagnostics around VPN connection issues in LH, RRAS has introduced a functionality of tagging the VPN connection related events with what is called as "Correlation-ID" (CoID). The relevant event messages are prefixed with "CoID={128...

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...

When a VPN connection is established, by default, ‘Use default gateway on remote network’ checkbox is selected. When this checkbox is selected a new default route for the VPN Connection is added and the existing default route gets a higher metric. Result...

With the various previous blogs, we already know that SSTP (Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol) is a new VPN tunnel type which is added to the list of the already existing tunnel types, PPTP and L2TP. With this addition, there have been some changes in...

It is not possible to access network shares from a Windows Vista machine over a VPN connection if Net BIOS over TCP (NetBT) is disabled on one of the machines or port 139 is blocked. A fix for this problem is available from Microsoft Support. Customers...

Want to know more about SSTP based VPN, the scenario it is trying to solve, how it works - have a look at this article published by Joseph Davies: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/06/CableGuy/default.aspx Cheers, Samir...

So we are back with a post on SSTP - the tunnelling protocol that can help you traverse through NATs and firewalls. SSTP is sure a great way to establish VPN connections in cases where PPTP and L2TP will not work due to the presence of NATs and firewalls...

RAS supports 3 types of tunnels namely Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), Layer 2 Tunnelingu Protocol (L2TP) and Secure Socket Tunneing Protocol (SSTP) for connecting to work from home securely. When connecting from home you have option to either...

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...

Hi All, Great news. Longhorn Server Beta 3 has gone public. This is really great news for our remote access customers who wants to try out all the new features in RRAS - like VPN NAP support to enable client health-check, full IPv6 support for remote...

Windows VPN server - Interaction with network infrastructure components Description: Join us for a live webchat to discuss your queries regarding the deployment and configuration of the VPN server and its interaction with other network infrastructure...

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....

These are some cool documents - thanks to our "Cable Guy" i.e. Joseph Davies "New Networking Features in Windows Server Longhorn and Windows Vista": http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1206.mspx "IPV6 over PPP": http:/...

Hi All, Till Windows 2003, routing and remote access server (i.e. RRAS) and Windows firewall didn't co-exist. i.e. if one of the feature is enabled - other cannot be enabled. RRAS was having a version of Windows firewall called as "Basic Firewall"...

In Windows Vista IKE Layer authentication for L2TP/IPSec tunnel connections using machine certificates has been strengthened by verifying additional fields in the certificate presented by the peer during the IKE negotiation apart from validating that...

The steps to configure a RAS client connection using SSTP were listed in one of the previous posts. However, the good news is that Connection Manager can also be used to establish SSTP connections. This makes deploying client connections easier and transparent...

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...

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...

By now, all of you would be aware of what SSTP is and would also have got your questions answered in the FAQ column. We also saw in this blog , how to configure a SSTP client connection. In this post, let's quickly look at the steps required to configure...

Are you interested in setting up your Windows based client OS (like Vista, Windows7) as VPN server (aka ‘Enabling Incoming Connections’)? I have seen some queries as where to find ‘Incoming Connection’ wizard in Vista and hence this post. The...

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...