DirectAccess

DirectAccess clients are completly dependent on DNS to function, especially when you have IPv4 behind the UAG server.  In these cases UAG acts as an ISATAP router which translates IPv6 into IPv4 as well as IPv4 into IPv6.  To do this it [...]

There are a number of key prerequisites that you should have in place prior to implementing UAG DirectAccess. While I won’t be going into step-by-step detail on these components in this guide, I will give you some pointers in case [...]

Although it takes a wile, installing UAG is really easy. You can either install the RTM of UAG and then apply SP1 or you can install from media that already has SP1 baked in. If you have the RTM media [...]

Before you even begin to configure UAG or DirectAccess you need to get your IP addressing squared away.  The UAG server will act as an entry point into your network (aka, the “corpnet”) from the outside Internet, so you need two [...]

A few months ago I wrote a series of blog posts that covered the configuration of DirectAccess using Unified Access Gateway RTM, and it was pretty popular so I decided to update it now that UAG Service Pack 1 has [...]

I recently ran into a never before seen error message when trying to open the DirectAccess section of the UAG console.  We had a fresh install of Windows 2008 R2 and all current  updates, UAG 2010 with Update 2 and the KB2418933 hotfix as well [...]