Server 2012 & Direct Access

leigh_boy · 19 Mar 2014 at 10:45

Has any one implemented Direct access before?
im looking to give it a try out but looking for some feed back.

1 document i was reading said i needed 2 external ip v2 addresses? is this really the case?

what issues should i see arrise? its only for a small number of users.

thanks.

steinooo · 20 Mar 2014 at 09:52

I'm interested in this too, I'm surprised no one has replied.

Out of interest, do you currently allow people to work from out side of the office at all?

MasterPlan1 · 20 Mar 2014 at 14:00

I use it at home, you only need 1 IP from my set up of it.

You need to have Win7 Ult/Ent & 8 enterprise though.

leigh_boy · 20 Mar 2014 at 14:15

ok thats perfect we use 7 enterprise at the office.

steinooo · 20 Mar 2014 at 15:40

MasterPlan1 said:
I use it at home, you only need 1 IP from my set up of it.

You need to have Win7 Ult/Ent & 8 enterprise though.

How easy is it configured? Is the only pre-requisite that the PC is a domain member?

madman045 · 20 Mar 2014 at 19:23

Id have a read through this

http://www.windowsecurity.com/artic...ified-directaccess-wizard-overview-Part1.html

Deathwish · 20 Mar 2014 at 20:24

We have it setup, once we ironed out some of the bugs it does work quite well and users don't' notice the difference between LAN connected and non-LAN connected.

MasterPlan1 · 24 Mar 2014 at 11:49

steinooo said:
How easy is it configured? Is the only pre-requisite that the PC is a domain member?

Pretty much, I love it because if I'm in the office and I accidentally nuke my personal laptop (happened a few times now) I can just RDP to my DC at home, do an offline domain join w/ group policy included add my machine back on to my network from wherever I am and it'll set up DA too... Seamless.

You'll also need a dynamic dns alias - makes things a lot easier, I use freedns.org.

steinooo · 25 Mar 2014 at 11:27

sounds nice. I am planning an enterprise level access method and I don't see anything bad about it so far. I even hear that you can use RSA tokens to authenticate if it detects you are outside of a internal subnet.

The thing I can't get my head around is "Is Direct Access a competitor to Citrix Netscaler" or is it a different product?