DirectAccess with Devrim

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Feb 16th @ 12:19 AM | 23,787 Views | 3 Comments

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DirectAccess provides users the experience of being seamlessly connected to their corporate network any time they have Internet access. If their corporate network supports DirectAccess, the users don't need to connect via their Virtual Private Network in order to access corporate resources. They can work as if they are in their office, no matter where they are.

For IT professionals, DirectAccess provides a more secure and flexible corporate network infrastructure to remotely manage and update user PCs. Using DirectAccess, IT managers can now obtain an “always managed” infrastructure, in which computers both on and off the network can remain healthy, managed, and updated.

Devrim took some time to show me the feature and tell me how to set it up, and suggested that, to do it right, we needed to getoutside the office to demo it properly, so we did.
Want to learn more? How about an overview of DirectAccess, as well as the DirectAccess page on TechNet.

Tags: directaccess, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

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wanderer99

Thanks Devrim. Excellent explanation - I'm really looking forward to trying this in the near future. I can see great value in this for the Corporate environment.

TGUD

Great stuff. Many people have access to multiple corp networks through VPN connections. How do you differentiate connections? Does it even matter? Can you access multiple corp networks with Direct Access?

kabo

I imagine direct access requires that the client is joined to the same domain as the direct access server in order for the connection to work.