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Blog Post:
Solving the Mystery of the Dead Teredo Interface
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
You’ve deployed DirectAccess on your network as a pilot project for your IT group over the holidays and everything is working great. When the users are behind a wide open NAT device, they use Teredo to connect to the UAG DirectAccess server. When they’re behind a port-restricted firewall or web proxy...
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21 Dec 2010
Blog Post:
Excellent UAG DirectAccess Configuration Guide by Shannon Fritz
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Shannon Fritz , who’s well known on the UAG DirectAccess forums at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/forefrontedgeiag/threads for providing excellent community answers and insight, has put together a very nice UAG DirectAccess Configuration Guide. In Shannon’s configuration guide, you...
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19 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
Is ISATAP Required for UAG DirectAccess?
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
The answer is “no” – but its important to understand the function of ISATAP and why or why not you might consider deploying ISATAP in your environment. Why ISATAP? ISATAP is the Intra-site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol. The purpose of ISATAP is to allow you to use IPv6 aware applications on a...
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1 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest Quiz One-Round One
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
With all the excitement coming from the upcoming release of UAG Service Pack 1, I thought we might do something fun (OK, DirectAccess is always fun, but maybe we can do something closer to what other people would consider fun). What’s more fun than a contest? I know, a contest where you’re the winner...
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2 Dec 2010
Blog Post:
UAG DirectAccess Contest Continues on January 6 2011
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Just a quick note about the UAG DirectAccess contest. We didn’t have a quiz last week because of the entire world was on vacation We’ll continue the contest this week with the next quiz being tomorrow, January 6, 2011. The first round of the first contest is complete. The second round of the first contest...
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5 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Answers UAG DirectAccess Contest Quiz 1 Round 1
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Here are the answers to Quiz 1, Round 1: ==================================================== Question 1: Which Operating System(s) can be configured as DirectAccess clients? (choose the best answer) A. Windows 7 B. Windows Vista SP2 C. Windows Server 2008 R2 D. Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP2 E. Windows...
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4 Dec 2010
Blog Post:
UAG SP1 RC Demonstrate DirectAccess Remote Management Test Lab Guide Released
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
So you liked what you saw after going through the Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess Test Lab Guide. In that guide you saw how to set up a working DirectAccess configuration with UAG SP1 RC and were able to check out the new Web Monitor view of DirectAccess client connections. So what...
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29 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest 1–Round 2/Quiz 3 and Contest 2 Round 1/Quiz 3
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
It’s time for your weekly UAG DirectAccess quiz! We’re getting close to the end of contest 1, so make sure you don’t miss a step for the next two weeks. Last week’s quiz was definitely tricky and introduced some obscure or difficult to find information. This week I’m going to try something a little different...
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21 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Some 3G Connections May Not Enable DirectAccess Always-On Connectivity
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
DirectAccess is about being “always-on”. When I start my laptop in the morning, I’m ready to get to work. Even though I don’t work on the Microsoft campus, I’m able to connect to anything I want (that I have permissions to connect to) on the Microsoft intranet without thinking about connecting to an...
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18 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Answers to UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest 1–Round 2/Quiz 2 and Contest 2 Round 1/Quiz 2
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for – the answers to UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest 1–Round 2/Quiz 2 and Contest 2 Round 1/Quiz 2! Here you go: =========================================== Question 1: ISATAP is an IPv6 transition technology that enables computers to tunnel IPv6 packets inside...
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18 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Another Cause of the “No Usable Certificate(s) 0x103 Error
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
One of the most mysterious errors you’ll see when working with DirectAccess are related to failures in IP-HTTPS connectivity. I did a blog post on this problem last year and you can find it at http://blogs.technet.com/b/tomshinder/archive/2010/03/30/troubleshooting-the-no-usable-certificate-s-ip-https...
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21 Feb 2011
Blog Post:
UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest 1–Round 2/Quiz 4 (Final) and Contest 2 Round 1/Quiz 4
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Wow! This is it – the last quiz in Contest 1. That’s right – this is quiz 4 of the second round. To celebrate this occasion and to make things more interesting, we’re going to have FIVE questions. This will give those who are behind a better chance of catching up and put some pressure on the leaders...
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28 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest 1–Round 2/Quiz 1 and Contest 2 Round 1/Quiz 1
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
It that time again! The UAG DirectAccess Contest. If you’ve been participating in Contest 1 Round 1, you know the drill. If you’re new – don’t worry about Contest 1 – you’ll be automatically entered into Contest 2 and you’ll be participating in Round 1. And if you participated in Round 1 of Contest 1...
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6 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Check out the new Test Lab Guide–Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Great news! Last week we released the Release Candidate of UAG Service Pack 1. If you haven’t heard about this, then check out the UAG Team Blog post on this subject at http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/archive/2010/10/21/announcing-forefront-uag-2010-service-pack-1.aspx However, most organizations...
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27 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest Quiz Two-Round One
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
(If you didn’t participate in Quiz 1 – you can read the rules of the game over at http://blogs.technet.com/b/tomshinder/archive/2010/12/02/uag-sp1-directaccess-contest-quiz-one-round-one.aspx ) It’s time for Quiz 2-Round 1! I got started late on this one today and I was also reminded that there are plenty...
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10 Dec 2010
Blog Post:
Answers to UAG SP1 DirectAccess Contest Quiz Three-Round One
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Happy Holidays guys! We got a great response to this weeks quiz and added some new contestants. That’s great! Even with the busy holiday it’s cool to see you all interested in playing and learning more about UAG DirectAccess. Now for the answers: =========================================== Question 1...
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20 Dec 2010
Blog Post:
What Defines a Functional Connection to a Network Location Server?
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
One of the key pieces of a working DirectAccess solution is the Network Location Server or NLS. The purpose of the Network Location Server is to help the computer configured as a DirectAccess client to know that it’s inside the corporate network. When the DirectAccess client is inside the corporate network...
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19 Jul 2010
Blog Post:
Configuring DirectAccess to Support Citrix Connections
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
We’ve seen a lot of questions on how to get the Citrix client to work with DirectAccess. The following provide some information and procedures that may work to get the Citrix client to work over DirectAccess. The Citrix client can use IPv6 to connect to one type of server only: the Citrix Secure Gateway...
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24 Aug 2010
Blog Post:
Answers UAG DirectAccess Contest Quiz 2 Round 1
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Here are the answers to Quiz 2, Round 1: ==================================================== Question 1: You have installed UAG Service Pack 1 and find that you are unable to connect to resources on the intranet using fully qualified domain names. What is the most likely reason for this failure? A. ...
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14 Dec 2010
Blog Post:
Fix for DirectAccess with SharePoint Authentication Issue
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
“Why does SharePoint ask for credentials when I connect over DirectAccess?” There is a very long thread on the TechNet forums regarding an unusual authentication issue when DirectAccess clients try to connect to SharePoint sites. There were a lot of posts and a lot of effort was made to determine the...
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21 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Forefront UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess with Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) and Remote Desktop Gateway (RDG)–Blog Version
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Hey folks – since the TLGs are typically put up only in the download center, it makes discoverability of some of the cool content inside of them hard when it comes to search engines. Therefore, I’m going to post the full text of the TLGs on the Edge Man blog. However, I recommend that you download the...
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17 Nov 2010
Blog Post:
Test Lab Guide – Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant - Blog Version
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Hey folks – since the TLGs are typically put up only in the download center, it makes discoverability of some of the cool content inside of them hard when it comes to search engines. Therefore, I’m going to post the full text of the TLGs on the Edge Man blog. However, I recommend that you download the...
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5 Nov 2010
Blog Post:
UAG DirectAccess in 8 to 10 Easy Steps
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
So you’ve gone through our excellent Test Lab Guides (which you can find at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/test-lab-guides.aspx ) and you’ve read the UAG DirectAccess design guide ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee406191.aspx ) and the UAG DirectAccess deployment...
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21 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
Why Do I Need Two IP Addresses on the External Interface of the UAG DirectAccess Server?
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
This question comes up frequently when introducing admins to UAG DirectAccess. It makes sense, since public IPv4 addresses are getting more difficult to come by and in fact it’s predicted that there will be an exhaustion of the entire IPv4 address space by next month. So, why do you need two public IP...
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19 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Test Lab Guide – Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess Force Tunneling - Blog Version
Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
Hey folks – since the TLGs are typically put up only in the download center, it makes discoverability of some of the cool content inside of them hard when it comes to search engines. Therefore, I’m going to post the full text of the TLGs on the Edge Man blog. However, I recommend that you download the...
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2 Nov 2010
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