Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Advantages of PPTP
Although L2TP/IPsec is more secure than a PPTP VPN session, there are significant reasons organizations choose PPTP over L2TP/IPsec. The following are advantages of PPTP over L2TP/IPsec:
• PPTP does not require a certificate infrastructure. L2TP/IPsec, SSTP, and DirectAccess require a certificate infrastructure for issuing computer certificates to the VPN server computer (or other authenticating server) and all VPN client computers.
• PPTP can be used by all Windows desktop platforms (Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 client, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition [Me], Windows 98, and Windows 95 with the Windows ...
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