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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, As I wrote in this blog, there are four types of VPN tunnel supported by Windows 7 based VPN clients. In this blog I will focus on following things: how do you configure tunnel types on the client, how to decide on the tunnel type order
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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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Hi Folks, Our team member Samir Jain has posted a nice blog on how you should decide which tunnel to use/deploy for your scenario. The details for the same are given at which tunnel to use . In this blog, I would like to understand further on a possibility
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Hello Folks, I am sure you must have experienced VPN reconnect β a new IKEv2 based VPN tunnel that is added in Windows 7 that allows automatic and seamless switchover of an active VPN connection when the underlying Internet interface (connection) changes
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Hello, As you know SSTP support in Windows Server 2008 allows you to configure RRAS server role as SSL based L3 VPN server - which allows VPN clients (currently Vista SP1, WS08 and later releases) to connect from anywhere - behind firewalls/NAT. If you
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Hello, If you will like to use SSTP based VPN server (which is part of RRAS server in Windows server 2008) behind a ISA2006 Firewall, please refer to following articles β Thanks a bunch to Thomas Shinder http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Publishing-Windows-Server-2008-SSL-VPN-Server-Using-ISA-2006-Firewalls-Part1.html
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Hi All, Virtual Lab for deploying the SSTP Remote Access is available at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8316925 or http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032370149&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
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SSTP as you know requires a machine certificate to be installed on the VPN server. Most of the times, when the administrators need this machine certificate, they can configure a CA Server and get the certificates from this CA. But for this to work, the
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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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Hi All, SSTP screencast is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fc4d7d3f-0376-45bf-9544-ec35329a2fc1&DisplayLang=en Thanks a bunch, Jim for pulling it through ! This will give screen-by-screen view of how to set-up
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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 βallβ 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, To all our beta testers who are trying out SSTP, first of all "many many thanks from my RRAS team". This post talks about how to debug failures specific to SSTP based VPN tunnel ( Note : I am not discussing all the error codes displayed on RAS
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