Hi Everyone, I have received overwhelming response from the community about SSTP, how it works and a lot of interest in participating in the beta program. Thanks a lot to all of you !! I am trying my best to get as many folks enrolled to the program...

Some Microsoft customers and partners have enquired about the support for Requesting-Router behaviour of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation in Windows Vista. I have also seen attempts by some vendors to use prefix delegation to assign IPv6 addresses to Broadband...

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, 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 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...

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...

In last week blog, I wrote about SSTP - the new VPN tunnel which goes over HTTPS - hence increasing the coverage area of VPN connection to "everywhere". Today I am going to talk about advantages of SSTP compared to "network extension or full tunnel" solution...

This is to give an idea of what new features, changes has made to CMAK till now for Longhorn Server. This list is not final and subject to change. - In order to ease the profile authoring, separate wizard pages has been included for Vista profiles...

I am sure at times you might have faced this problem where PPTP or L2TP based VPN connection does not go through. This may be in some hotel or when you are visiting a customer or partner site etc. This is primarily due to PPTP GRE port blocking or L2TP...

I have seen lots of email coming around on how IPv6 supports works on WAN links in Vista. Or in other words how PPPv6 works Lets start by some fundamentals first: PPP is the protocol which is normally used to connect to your ISP over dial-up links...

In Vista, following changes have been done in remote access from security perspective 1) All the weak crypto algorithms have been removed and new stronger crypto algorithms are added to VPN tunnels Let us take case by case – per tunnel basis...

Hi, In this blog, I am giving quick FAQ on RAS IPv6 support in Vista and Longhorn Server IPv6 How do we support IPv4 and IPv6? First a little background: After you establish a VPN connectivity, you have two interfaces on your client machine...

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...

How to configure virtual private network enforcement for Network Access Protection in Windows Vista and in Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 2 Support webcast link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924161/en-us Session Summary This Support WebCast...

Adding DOD static and Non-DOD static routes :- netsh routing ip add persistant Adding NETMGMT routes:- Preferred way is i)- route add ii)- netsh interface ip add route but there is an alternate way also to add the NETMGMT routes....

Hi Folks, In this post, I will cover up some of the major feature additions that are done to remote access scenarios - both on the client side as well as the RRAS server side in Vista and Longhorn timeframe. The list of major features include ...

Webchat Title - Windows VPN server - Interaction with network infrastructure components Webchat 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...

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:...

Session Summary This presentation will explain how to configure site-to-site virtual private network (VPN) scenarios by using the Routing and Remote Access Service in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Link for the webcast - http://support.microsoft...

If you think RRAS based VPN server solution cannot scale to large enterprise requirements - due to any reasons - look at the numbers below - of VPN users within Microsoft using our solution "As of November 2004, an average of 46,000 Microsoft workers...

I have seen this a common customer query: My 2K, 2K3 server was working as DNS, DHCP, AD etc and stopped working after RRAS is installed. The main reason for this is because: When RRAS server is configured using RRAS configuration wizard and you...

Approach 1: On Security stand point use Default Gateway in the remote network else create batch file to add route on each client. The batch file can be created using Client Management Administration Kit (CMAK). CMAK can be used to save or export...

Hi All, Setting up VPN NAP using RRAS may seem overly complex in thoughts, but is not so. We now have great step-by-step guide available which walks you though the concepts + each and every step involved to set it up in the lab enviroment, test it...

You can use your Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional machine to act as a Remote Access server to support a limited number of Remote Access Clients. You can configure an incoming connection to accept the following connection types: dial...

This has been a constant source of customer worries - will RRAS performance meet my needs ? How will RRAS compare against other hardware appliances? Please don't think me as a sales person promoting RRAS after you read this blog:). I am an engineer...