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March 2007 - Posts

Some cool links about the new remote access related features in LHS/Vista
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://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1206.mspx Read More...
RRAS Server in Windows server 2008: Which one to use - Windows firewall or RRAS filters
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" - which Read More...
Verification of Additional Fields in Peer Certificates during IKE Negotiation in Windows Vista for L2TP/IPSec Tunnel Connections
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 Read More...
How to deploy SSTP client connections using Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK)
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 Read More...
How to deploy SSTP based VPN server behind a SSL terminator
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 Read More...
Setting up the SSTP listener and verifying it
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 Read More...
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