Windows server 2008 web edition vpn

L2TP supports PPP and EAP user authentication mechanisms, which allows for a high level of log on security because both user and machine authentication is required.

I should note here that VPN connections are more about privacy than security. While I do recognize that privacy is a major component of secure communications, privacy in and of itself does not provide security. VPN technologies provide for privacy of communications over the Internet, which prevents intruders from reading the contents of your communications.

VPN technologies also allow you to make sure that only authorized users can connect to the network through the VPN gateway. However, privacy, authentication and authorization do not provide a comprehensive security solution. For example, suppose you have an employee who you have granted VPN access. Everyone is happy until one day one of your users connects to your SQL server to access payroll information and starts to share that information with other employees.

What happened? Wasn't the VPN connection secure? Yes, the VPN connection was secure to the extent that it provided privacy, authentication and authorization - but one thing it did not provide was access control, and access control is the most pivotal aspects of computer security. In fact, it can be argued that without access control, all other security measure are of relatively little value. In addition, advanced firewalls like the ISA Firewall can perform stateful packet and application layer inspection on VPN client connections.

In this article we are focusing only the VPN server component. Marked as answer by vtortola Friday, March 6, AM. Wednesday, March 4, AM. VPN server can be configured with singly NIC which mean it can be part of internal network, we just need to configure edge firewall to forward revelent packets to VPN server.

Hope this helps. Thursday, March 5, AM. Yes , it is possible to avoid server acting as a router , provided you have external device configured as VPN server , eg: Ciscto Routers.

Friday, March 6, AM. Features included with the new Windows Firewall with Advanced Security include: Granular inbound access control Granular outbound access control Tight integration with the Windows Server Server Manager, with automatic configuration of the firewall when services are installed using the Server Manager Highly improved IPsec policy configuration and management, and a name change.

Is possible avoid the server acting as a router? I don't like the idea of expose the machine directly on internet To configure network-specific settings such as prepared routes and network access point NAP settings on the client device. The following subsections explain the IT pro and remote user experiences for installing the VPN profile by using these scripts. The IT pro creates an external web portal that is accessible to remote users when they connect with domain credentials. This web portal is published to all the corporate network users who intend to connect to the corporate network by using the VPN.

The IT pro creates a Windows PowerShell script and adds it to the web portal with setup instructions and guidelines. Other Windows PowerShell sample scripts and documentation are available on Microsoft TechNet to help IT pros create corresponding scripts for their network deployment. Remote users receive the external web portal information from the IT pro. To configure the VPN on the unmanaged device, users navigate to the portal and sign in with their domain credentials.

On the VPN configuration page, the user simply clicks or touches the link, and the setup script is downloaded to the client device. IT pros can include many advanced configuration settings in this single-click VPN deployment script to provide a complete client deployment experience for remote users.

These advanced settings might include the following for the VPN connection:. For a given interface, the connection specific DNS suffix can be configured by using the following Windows PowerShell script:. However, for VPN connections, there might be situations in which Kerberos authentication occurs before the VPN connection configuration is complete.

When this happens, the Kerberos protocol will not allow authentication for 15 minutes. To work around this potential situation, IT pros can use the following command to clear the Kerberos negative cache and avoid delay:. It is a simple method for creating VPN connections if the VPN deployment is password-based, and it has no complexities like deployment NAP settings or publishing routes. The remote access server name is the only piece of information that is needed to create the connection.

If the profile is more complex, the IT pro should provide detailed instructions and configuration scripts. This tool is commonly used for VPN client package generation. For the VPN profiles that are created by using Windows PowerShell scripts, the IT pro can share another single-click script through the web portal to remove the profile and its corresponding settings from a client device.

If IT pros want to make any changes to a VPN profile that was deployed on client systems by using System Center Configuration Manager, they simply open the server user interface and make the required changes.

A new VPN profile will be generated and used for all future deployments. For script-based profiles, IT pros can write a new script and distribute it through a shared resource or a web portal.

The following script shows how an IT pro can delete an existing VPN connection, and then deploy a new one:. The following script provides an example for how you can edit an existing connection, and add a new connection if it is not already provisioned:. Thursday, April 9, AM.

Hi, I am wondering what the public web application exactly mean. Or its function and how it works. Best Regards, Eve Wang Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

Tuesday, March 31, AM. Thanks Eve, The network diagram is actually easy but I couldn't manage myself to explain it better :D. Wednesday, April 8, AM.