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Provisioning VPN client settings using Group Policy
Problem:Today, Microsoft VPN client can be configured in two ways as discussed in this article...
Date: 08/31/2009
How to deploy RRAS based VPN server that gives dedicated IP to remote users/machines and allow them to access Internet using a dedicated public IP address
Hello Customers, In this blog, I will go through the steps to enable the following scenario: Let us...
Date: 07/30/2009
How to configure Network Load Balancing (NLB) based cluster of VPN Servers
Hello All, in this blog, I will discuss how to configure a "Network Load Balancing Cluster" of vpn...
Date: 07/02/2009
SSTP support on Forefront TMG server
Hello Customers,If you are wondering, when will Forefront based VPN server be available on Windows...
Date: 06/10/2009
What type of certificate to install on the VPN server
Hello Friends,In my previous posting related to VPN tunnel selection, I discussed various scenarios...
Date: 06/10/2009
How to configure RRAS based SSTP VPN server behind F5 BIGIP SSL load balancer
Hello All,In this blog, I will discuss how to load balance SSTP based VPN servers using a F5 BIGIP...
Date: 05/26/2009
Windows7 PPPoE or VPN connectivity experience – we would like to hear back from you
Hello Friends,As you know – Windows7 RC is out and we will like to hear back from you !In...
Date: 05/13/2009
Enhancements to VPN Reconnect in W7 RC
Hello Folks,By now all of you must have heard about the formal release of W7 RC. In case you...
Date: 05/11/2009
3rd party VPN client compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Date: 05/05/2009
Smart Defaults for VPN Strategy and Authentication Protocol in CMAK
In W7 the CMAK wizard can be used to create CM profiles that can run on both Vista and W7 machines...
Date: 04/09/2009
Remote Access Deployment – Part 3: Configuring RADIUS Server for remote access
Hello Customers,In this post, I will go through the steps to configure to deploy Network Policy...
Date: 03/25/2009
Remote Access Deployment – Part 2: Configuring RRAS as a VPN server
Hello Customers,In this post, I will go through the steps to configure to deploy RRAS as a VPN...
Date: 03/25/2009
Remote Access Design Guidelines – Part 5: Where to place RRAS server
Hello Customers,In this post, I will highlight on various placement requirements related to RAS...
Date: 03/17/2009
Remote Access Design Guidelines – Part 4: IP Routing and DNS
Hello Customers,In this post, I will walk through some aspects on IP addressing, routing and name...
Date: 03/17/2009
Remote Access Design Guidelines – Part 3: Tunnel selection, Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
Hello Customers,In this post, I will walk through the most important topic – which...
Date: 03/17/2009
Remote Access Design Guidelines – Part 2: VPN client software selection
Hello Customers,In this post, I will walk through the different ways in which you can enable VPN...
Date: 03/17/2009
Remote Access Design Guidelines – Part 1: Overview
Hello Customers,In last few releases, we have added plenty of “cool” features in RAS...
Date: 03/17/2009
Change in username format to UTF8 to handle International Characters
As the usage of non-English languages in usernames becomes more and more popular it is important to...
Date: 03/13/2009
VPN tunnel strategy - defining the connection order between various tunnel types
Hello Customers, As I wrote in this blog, there are four types of VPN tunnel supported by Windows 7...
Date: 02/11/2009
How to change certificate on SSTP server - in Windows server 2008 R2
Hi Folks, Very soon Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be released and it is very exciting...
Date: 02/11/2009
Do we still need PPTP & L2TP/IPsec after Windows 7
Hi Folks,Our team member Samir Jain has posted a nice blog on how you should decide which tunnel to...
Date: 02/10/2009
RRAS Performance results
Hello Customers, A lot of you have requested directly or through the field channels about...
Date: 02/09/2009
Deploying VPN Reconnect: Step-by-step guide available at
Folks, The deployment guide for VPN Reconnect is now available...
Date: 02/01/2009
Different VPN tunnel types in Windows - which one to use?
Hello Folks, I am sure you must have experienced VPN reconnect – a new IKEv2 based VPN tunnel...
Date: 01/30/2009
Known issues in VPN reconnect mobility manager in Windows 7 beta release
Hi folks, Hope you all are in good health.I believe that you must be enjoying the new VPN reconnect...
Date: 01/29/2009
RRAS team wants to hear from you!
Microsoft listens! Is there a particular feature in RRAS that interests you? Have you customized the...
Date: 01/23/2009
VAN UI (View Available Networks UI) in W7
Hi Folks It is almost time for the windows 7 to hit the market. We have incorporated a lot of cool...
Date: 01/07/2009
The Mobility Manager - managing mobility for VPN reconnect connections (IKEv2 based VPN connections)
Hi folks, It's again that exciting time of the year when the next version of Windows is going to...
Date: 12/30/2008
SSTP support on SBS 2008
Hello,As you know SSTP support in Windows Server 2008 allows you to configure RRAS server role as...
Date: 12/16/2008
RAS Features in W7
Hello folks, My name is Aanand Ramachandran and I am the Program Manager for the Routing and Remote...
Date: 12/09/2008
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista VPN issue with accessing shares
Hello Everyone, my name is Aydin Aslaner, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft...
Date: 08/20/2008
Limit one connection to the VPN server per user
Hello all, I thought it would be worthwhile to blog a post specifically on this topic. I've seen...
Date: 07/17/2008
How to secure the server running RRAS role after doing upgrade or fresh install of Windows server 2008
Hello, As you know in Windows server 2008 (WS08) we have removed “Basic Firewall”...
Date: 03/14/2008
Publishing SSTP based VPN server using ISA2006 Firewall
Hello, If you will like to use SSTP based VPN server (which is part of RRAS server in Windows server...
Date: 03/14/2008
SSTP Remote Access Virtual Lab Available @ TechNet
Hi All,Virtual Lab for deploying the SSTP Remote Access is available at...
Date: 02/26/2008
Happy New Year
Dear Readers,Happy New Year to all our readers (on behalf my entire team !)I expect 2008 to be a...
Date: 01/08/2008
Getting Certificate from third party Certificate Authorities for SSTP
SSTP as you know requires a machine certificate to be installed on the VPN server. Most of the...
Date: 01/03/2008
Steps to develop a RAS administration DLL using Visual Studio
Hello folks! We saw how useful a RAS administration DLL can be to admins who want to control what...
Date: 12/20/2007
RAS Administration DLL - Your customized solution to manage the server!
Hello everyone. I understand that all of you would be busy checking out Vista and its cool features....
Date: 12/16/2007
WebChat Session today!
Windows VPN Server- Interaction with Network Infrastructure Components Join us for a live web chat...
Date: 11/29/2007
How to deploy SSTP based VPN server and IIS on the same machine
This blog is going to tell about how SSTP can be affected by configuring IIS Server on the same...
Date: 11/08/2007
How to change machine certificate on the SSTP server
This blog is going to tell about how to change the Certificate to be used for the SSTP Server....
Date: 11/08/2007
Deploying SSTP: Screencast available at
Hi All, SSTP screencast is available at...
Date: 10/10/2007
How to restrict SSTP connection to specific IP address (instead of all IP address) on RRAS server
SSTP by default is configured to listen on all the interfaces (i.e. 0.0.0.0 for IPv4 or ::/0 for...
Date: 10/04/2007
How to change the machine certificate of SSTP based RRAS server
SSTP requires a machine certificate on the RRAS server which needs to be set inside HTTPS listener...
Date: 10/04/2007
How to debug SSTP specific connection failures
Hi All, To all our beta testers who are trying out SSTP, first of all "many many thanks from my RRAS...
Date: 09/26/2007