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Steps to develop a RAS administration DLL using Visual Studio

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:39 PM by rrasblog
Hello folks! We saw how useful a RAS administration DLL can be to admins who want to control what the RRAS server does. In this post, let us see how we can develop a RAS administration DLL using Visual Studio. I have often seen requirements from admins Read More...
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Attachment(s): UserRestrict_Admindll_code.rtf

RAS Administration DLL - Your customized solution to manage the server!

Posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 9:53 PM by rrasblog
Hello everyone. I understand that all of you would be busy checking out Vista and its cool features. However, for this post I decided to write about something which is very powerful but is little known - RAS administration DLL. The post will outline the Read More...
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Ports affecting the VPN connectivity

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:05 PM by rrasblog
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 number Read More...
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My Windows XP Pro/Windows 2000 Pro as Remote Access (VPN) Server

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:55 PM by rrasblog
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-up Read More...
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How to configure VPN Server with single NIC on Windows Server

Posted Monday, June 19, 2006 7:03 PM by rrasblog
'Routing and Remote Access' service that is available as part of Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Longhorn server can be configured as a VPN Server with single Network Interface Card (NIC). This configuration is primarily used when there is Read More...
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VPN – NLB

Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:33 PM by rrasblog
Network Load Balancing is intended for stateless applications that do not have long-running in-memory state. Such application treats each client request as an independent operation, and therefore it can load-balance each request independently. Stateless Read More...
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What are the main requirements and factors to configure VPN based remote access?

Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:59 AM by rrasblog
To start with you need to decided on VPN client and VPN server :). Lets say you are using inbuilt VPN client in Windows 98/2000/2003/XP and Windows 2000/2003 Server running RRAS. Now lets break-up remote access requirement into following factors: 1) VPN Read More...
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What are the main features of Microsoft RRAS?

Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:32 AM by rrasblog
Routing and remote access service (RRAS) can be used to cater to following scenarios: - Remote access (e.g. employees accessing corporate network from their home, hotel etc). This can be achieved using dialup (analog + ISDN) lines as well as Internet Read More...
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There are different types of VPN tunnels like L2TP, PPTP, etc. Which VPN tunnel to use?

Posted Friday, December 30, 2005 6:20 PM by rrasblog
I agree that there are too many tunnel option :), but each has its own advantages/disadvantages and customer scenarios. Let us try to understand that in this blog. First a basic preview - there are primarily two usage scenarios of VPN: - First one is Read More...
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Command Line for Configuring Routing and Remote Access Server

Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:27 AM by rrasblog
Netsh is a command line tool to configure and administer Windows based computers. Netsh can be used extensively for Routing and remote access configurations. Some of the netsh commands in RAS context are - Command – Netsh ras add authtype add authtype Read More...
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