July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
669 pages
16h 40m
English
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Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Darril Gibson
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12.3. Understanding DirectAccess
DirectAccess is a new feature available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It allows clients to access internal resources using Internet access but without creating a VPN.
You can think of DirectAccess as a virtual tunnel. It uses IPv6 over IPSec to secure the traffic. Once it is configured, remote clients can access servers on the internal network over the Internet, just as if they were on the internal network. In other words, as long as the clients have access to the Internet, they can access servers on the internal network.
In order to take advantage of DirectAccess, you must meet several requirements:
Clients
Clients must be running Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate edition. The clients must also ...