DirectAccess

After running through all the configuration wizards for DirectAccess there are two steps to putting it all into play. First Apply the Policies and finally Activate the Configuration. Both are necessary steps to complete the deployment of your UAG DA [...]

Prior to SP1 this was called the “Application Servers” wizard. It’s been renamed to more accurately describe it’s function, however the Group Policy it generates is still called “AppServer” by default.  Aside from the rename and a little face-lift to the UI it [...]

The first wizard has been given some pretty significant enhancements in SP1 that include easier configuration of the deployment type and more flexible ways of defining who your DirectAccess clients will be. Here you can select whether or not you want the [...]

This wizard has also been improved in SP1 and I find it more intuitive than in the RTM.  Here you’ll be defining the network interfaces for UAG, the details about your earlier decisions around certificates and have a few more [...]

Now that you’ve made it through all the prerequisites, assigned your static IP’s and installed UAG, you are now ready to open the UAG console and get down to configuring it! The first time you open the console you’ll see [...]

Generally speaking, people typically will not connect a Windows server directly to the Internet with it’s own public IP.  The Windows Firewall by itself, as good as it is, often times does not muster up a lot of confidence in [...]