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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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog Date: 05/11/2009

3rd party VPN client compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog Date: 02/10/2009

RRAS Performance results

Hello Customers, A lot of you have requested directly or through the field channels about...

Author: rrasblog Date: 02/09/2009

Deploying VPN Reconnect: Step-by-step guide available at

Folks, The deployment guide for VPN Reconnect is now available...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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”...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog Date: 03/14/2008

SSTP Remote Access Virtual Lab Available @ TechNet

Hi All,Virtual Lab for deploying the SSTP Remote Access is available at...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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....

Author: rrasblog Date: 12/16/2007

WebChat Session today!

Windows VPN Server- Interaction with Network Infrastructure Components Join us for a live web chat...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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....

Author: rrasblog Date: 11/08/2007

Deploying SSTP: Screencast available at

Hi All, SSTP screencast is available at...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog 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...

Author: rrasblog Date: 09/26/2007

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