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Problem: Today, Microsoft VPN client can be configured in two ways as discussed in this article – a) in-built VPN client b) CM based VPN client. The first method requires end user to know the VPN settings and then create a VPN connection – which needs
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Hello All, in this blog, I will discuss how to configure a "Network Load Balancing Cluster" of vpn servers to ensure high availability and scalability of vpn service. For information about "Network Load Balancing (NLB)" feature in "Windows Server 2008
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Hello All, In this blog, I will discuss how to load balance SSTP based VPN servers using a F5 BIGIP SSL load balancer. Lets look at the deployment scenario first: You are having a pool of RRAS based VPN servers hosted behind F5 BIGIP load balancer. The
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Hello Customers, In this post, I will go through the steps to configure to deploy Network Policy Server (NPS) based RADIUS server to authenticate and authorize the remote access connections coming from RRAS based VPN server. I will try to go through different
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Hello Customers, In this post, I will go through the steps to configure to deploy RRAS as a VPN server. I will try to go through different configuration scenarios in order to point you to various configuration options in RRAS server role. However for
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Hello Customers, In my last few articles , I discussed about the design guidelines to consider before deploying a remote access solution. In the next few articles, I will go through the steps to configure the various components of the remote
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Hi Folks, Very soon Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be released and it is very exciting that beta version of these new operating system is available for public download. So, go ahead and start using it and provide your valuable feedback to us.
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Folks, The deployment guide for VPN Reconnect is now available at http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/9/0/890C2C54-EE49-4743-A5B0-1F3AD7C36721/Step-by-Step_Deploy_Remote_Access_with_VPN_Reconnect.doc The guide covers the various requirements for
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Hello, As you know in Windows server 2008 (WS08) we have removed “Basic Firewall” functionality in RRAS which exist in Windows Server 2003 (WS03). This leads to following security implications which you should be carefully consider when configuring RRAS
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This blog is going to tell about how SSTP can be affected by configuring IIS Server on the same Server and how to get rid of this problem without moving the IIS Server to a different machine. Let's us first know what kind of issue can arise if IIS is
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This blog is going to tell about how to change the Certificate to be used for the SSTP Server. Although, the normal procedure of installing the certificate on RRAS Server for SSTP mentioned in the step by step guide works perfectly fine, this blog is
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SSTP by default is configured to listen on all the interfaces (i.e. 0.0.0.0 for IPv4 or ::/0 for IPv6). This means RRAS server by default will allow VPN connections to come in from “all” the IPv4 as well as IPv6 addresses that are available on the server
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SSTP requires a machine certificate on the RRAS server which needs to be set inside HTTPS listener (i.e. HTTP.SYS). This certificate will be sent to the client during SSL hand-shake stage (like in any other https:// requests). The RRAS server, when configured
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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/NAT/web
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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 Or http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/9f69d438-2723-4e15-836f-8e58ef2827141033.mspx
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