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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook

by Jordan Krause
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
138 pages
3h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

Follow these steps to make use of certificates as part of the DirectAccess tunnel authentication process:

  1. The first thing that you need to do is distribute certificates to your DA servers and all DA client computers. The easiest way to do this is by building a new template on the CA server that is duplicated from the in-built Computer template. Whenever I create a custom template for use with DirectAccess, I try to make sure that it meets the following criteria:
    • The Subject Name of the certificate should match the Common Name of the computer (which is also the FQDN of the computer)
    • The Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of the certificate should match the DNS Name of the computer (which is also the FQDN of the computer)
    • The ...
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