Provisioning VPN client settings using Group Policy
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...
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Troubleshooting common VPN related errors
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...
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How to deploy RRAS based VPN server that gives dedicated IP to remote...
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...
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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 servers to ensure high availability and scalability of vpn service. For information about “Network...
View ArticleSSTP support on Forefront TMG server
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...
View ArticleWhat type of certificate to install on the VPN server
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...
View ArticleHow 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 SSL load balancer. Lets look at the deployment scenario first: You are having a pool of RRAS based...
View ArticleWindows7 PPPoE or VPN connectivity experience – we would like to hear back...
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)...
View ArticleEnhancements 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 don’t have it already here is the link from where you can download the RC bits...
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Troubleshooting common VPN related errors
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...
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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 in which you need to install a certificate on the VPN server. To summarize this requirement in a...
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3rd party VPN client compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
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...
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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 Platform Networking Support team. Today I would like to talk about a issue that we were dealing with...
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VPN Troubleshooting QA
Hello friends, We get questions,queries,feedback and clarifications from many people about their VPN connections through e-mail. I felt some of these Q&A might help people who face similar...
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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 team". This post talks about how to debug failures specific to SSTP based VPN tunnel (Note: I am not...
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Betterment of diagnostics for VPN connection issues in LH
To have a better diagnostics around VPN connection issues in LH, RRAS has introduced a functionality of tagging the VPN connection related events with what is called as "Correlation-ID" (CoID). The...
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Ports affecting the VPN connectivity
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...
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Accessing Network Shares Over a VPN Connection in Windows Vista
It is not possible to access network shares from a Windows Vista machine over a VPN connection if Net BIOS over TCP (NetBT) is disabled on one of the machines or port 139 is blocked. A fix for this...
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Troubleshooting Vista VPN problems
Hello all. There have been quite a few questions/posts on the technet forums about issues you folks have seen with Windows Vista VPN clients. So we thought we would come up with a post on the common...
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