Azure Point-to-Site is another version of Azure Site-to-Site, but has three important differences from the original which are as follows:
- This time, the destination of the connection setup is not a gateway subnet or a local VPN gateway. This time the destination of the connection setup is a VPN client installed on a single computer somewhere in your local network.
- Azure Point-to-Site does not use an IPSec/IKE tunnel for the secure connection between the two vertices, but a so-called Point-to-Site (P2S) SSTP tunnel. Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP), is an SSL-based protocol and has the advantage that it can penetrate firewalls, as most firewalls open the TCP port 443 used by SSL.
- Before Azure accepts a P2S connection, ...