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Direct Access is a new technology from Microsoft Available for Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate working with Windows Server 2008 R2 that provides seemless network connectivity not matter if you are in your Lan or in the Internet.

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Outlook fails to connect to a load-balanced Exchange 2013 cluster through Direct Access 2012 R2

We have a load-balanced Exchange 2013 SP1 cluster, running MAPI over HTTP. Client connectivity inside our own network works just fine, while clients connected over Direct Access does not connect. The Outlook logs on the client show absolutely no…
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Direct Access Certificates

I want to know if I can use a single certificate for all the direct access functionality. I am working at actually setting up DirectAccess on a relatively small network. Since this is a small network I am trying to find the minimum configuration…
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DirectAccess client can't connect

I've set up a DirectAccess server on Windows Server 2012 at my workplace. I'm using a Windows 8 Enterprise client to connect to it. It works fine over a mobile connection, but it fails when connecting from home. I've ruled out the firewall/router as…
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Windows 7 Direct Access

Windows 7 Direct Access is a feature that enables safe direct access to a network without using third party software. What are its requirements and how do you set up this feature?
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Should DirectAccess be deployed to all Windows clients that support it?

As our organization is slowly rolling out Windows 10, I made the observation of a DirectAccess GPO linked to the Windows 10 PCs OU (which contain internal desktops, laptops, and even VMs for VDI). This GPO was identical to our standard DA GPO,…
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Does a machine have to be domain joined in order to use Direct Access

Does a machine (e.g., mobile laptop) have to be domain joined in order to use Direct Access (DA)? Or does DA allow the user to provide credentials just like VPN does when setting up DA?
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Windows DirectAccess - Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 Client, “No SAs match the specified criteria”

I put this question on SuperUser, but judging from the lack of response I think I picked the wrong place, so I'm cross-posting here. I'm trying to get DA set up and it is being a major pain. I have the DA server set up (computer with single adapter…
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Forefront UAG vs. Server 2012 Direct Access

So I'm working on bringing my company into the 21'st century, with virtual servers, active directory, ADFS, SSO etc. Its a huuuuge project, with a future goal of ISO 27001 cerification. The current question is, does the Direct Access role offered by…
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Use a separate Teredo server and Teredo relay in Windows

All documentation (including microsoft's) about Teredo mentions the existance of Teredo Servers and Teredo Relays (and host-specific relays). Microsoft itself even runs public Teredo Servers (but no relays). But when I try to configure Teredo in…
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Force ipv4 server identification using DNS64

I have a requirement that my direct access client should always get the IPv4 address of the server (Server will always have an IPv4 address). I know that, DNS64 sends two DNS queries to the corporate DNS server ; 1 for IPv6 and 1 for IPv4 and if…
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Will DirectAccess clients renew workstation certificates off-site?

I setup MS DirectAccess nearly a year ago, which required configuring computer certificate auto-enrollment. The first computer certificate is going to expire in about a month, and now I'm wondering how that's going to work for machines that are…
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NAT not working after enabling DirectAccess

following test setup is given: server1 - 1 network card connected to internal network (10.0.0.2/24) + gateway 10.0.0.1 server2 - 2 network cards (1. connected to internal network (10.0.0.1/24) / 2. connected to the internet with static ip address +…
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Manage a co-located WinServer08 from Win7 RC: What's New?

I've been managing our company's server-farmed webserver from my workstation via internet for long enough that it will be easy to miss out on the new capabilities offered by combining Win7 and Server08 simply because I've got a system that…
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Windows 10 updating wrong DNS server when using DirectAccess

Having a problem where a Windows 10 client connected to the domain via DirectAccess isn't updating the client DNS records on the domain's nameserver. Instead, it appears to be trying to update the public DNS infrastructure. When I run ipconfig…
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DirectAccess Manage-Out Issues with native IPv6 implementation

I'm trying to understand why my internal network machines are unable to RDP into my DirectAccess clients.. My internal network is on IPv6, so there is no ISATAP going on.. Just direct routes to and from the clients.. I am able to ping the DA…
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