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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 Customers, If you are seeing errors while establishing VPN connection using Windows in-built VPN client, you have reached the right place. This article will help you to easily troubleshoot some of the common VPN related errors. 1) Error Code:
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Hello Customers, In this blog, I will go through the steps to enable the following scenario: Let us say you have a bunch of remote application servers that should be exposed to Internet only after routing them via a central server (which does accounting/firewall
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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 Customers, If you are wondering, when will Forefront based VPN server be available on Windows server 2008 – specifically when will Forefront VPN server support SSTP – which is the VPN tunnel that was added in Windows server 2008/Vista SP1 that provides
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Hello Friends, In my previous posting related to VPN tunnel selection , I discussed various scenarios in which you need to install a certificate on the VPN server. To summarize this requirement in a nutshell: except PPTP tunnel, for all the other tunnel
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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 Friends, As you know – Windows7 RC is out and we will like to hear back from you ! In Windows7, we did couple of changes on the remote access client that includes dialup, broadband (aka PPPoE) and VPN scenarios. Windows7 brings in simpler connectivity
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Hello Folks, By now all of you must have heard about the formal release of W7 RC. In case you don’t have it already here is the link from where you can download the RC bits http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx In RC the RAS team has
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When you upgrade your computer from an older version of Windows to Windows® 7 or Windows Server® 2008 R2, your 3rd-party virtual private network (VPN) client programs might not work. As Windows evolves, sometimes changes to the underlying infrastructure
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In W7 the CMAK wizard can be used to create CM profiles that can run on both Vista and W7 machines (a separate profile is still required for XP). When creating the profile if a VPN strategy or authentication protocol is specified which is not supported
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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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Hello Customers, In this post, I will highlight on various placement requirements related to RAS server. 5. 1 NAT Routers A VPN server machine can sit behind a NAT router as long as following requirements are met: For SSTP, NAT port redirection or bi-directional
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