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Webcast: Windows VPN Server

jeffreycentex — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:52:08 +0000

Here is an interesting webcast that I plan on attending:

Join us for a live webchat to discuss your queries regarding the deployment and configuration of the VPN server and its interaction with other network infrastructure services. This webchat will focus on Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS) configuration and its interoperability with DNS, NAT, Firewall and RADIUS servers. Your feedback on our product is extremely valuable to us.

Date – 3rd Aug 2006
Time – 10:00 AM PST

ICS Link

Chat Room Link

RRAS Blog Redux

jeffreycentex — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:42:00 +0000

From the RRAS blog:

VPN and NAP (Network Access Protection) (Network Access Protection) Overview

VPN and NLB (Network Load Balancing)

There are also many other informative documents related to RRAS server in Windows 2003 Server and even a few Longhorn Server-related articles. Their blog has picked up in activity in the past month… Welcome to the blog world, RRAS team…

Small Business Server 2003 SP1 Released

jeffreycentex — Sat, 21 May 2005 07:58:31 +0000

Per many sources on the net – SP1 for Small Business Server 2003 has been released.

Susan Bradleyhas some practical and important advice before you install it…

Tags: SBS2003, SBS2K3

New Tool: SSL-Explorer

jeffreycentex — Tue, 17 May 2005 07:06:37 +0000

OK, while I was browsing Sourceforge this evening, I came across a new release for a tool that I haven’t seen before – SSL-Explorer. Per the project website:

SSL-Explorer is a fully-featured, web-based SSL VPN server. This practicable remote access security solution includes SSL tunneling, intranet website proxying, Microsoft Windows file sharing and Java application deployment through a standard browser

It works pretty well. This is a pretty good solution for small businesses (or power users) who need to give remote access to users who may be using third party machines or those who are not savvy enough to set up a VPN connection.

At my office, we do not allow most users to have VPN access due to file security concerns. However, they are allowed to check and send email from home, on the road, etc. However, we are using a mail filtering tool (Mailwasher Server) that is web-based. This tool is only accessible from behind the LAN, though. With SSL-Explorer, we could allow remote users to access these internal web resources by just going to the SSL-Explorer web URL that you make publicly available. In addition, this also allows easy access to multiple remote desktop servers on your LAN…

Well, go ahead and check it out: Sourceforge Project Page

Tags: VPN, SSLExplorer

New Blog: Routing & Remote Access Services Team Blog (MS)

jeffreycentex — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:43:22 +0000

The RRAS team at Microsoft opened up a new blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/rrasblog/.

Tags: RRAS

VPNs: OS-X VPN Server and ISA Server Site-to-Site VPNs

jeffreycentex — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:06:25 +0000

Two more VPN articles of note:

1. Using VPN Server on Mac OS X 10.3 – Information on how to enable the built-in VPN server included with Mac OS-X…

2. ISA Firewall Site to Site VPNs with Downlevel VPN Gateways & ISA Firewall Site to Site VPN Quick Fix – Tom has tracked down a bit more documentation from MS on how to configure Site to Site VPNs with ISA Server.