tailieunhanh - Configuring Windows 7 (Training Kit) - Part 55

Configuring Windows 7 (Training Kit) - Part 55. This training kit is designed for IT professionals who operate in enterprise enviroments that use Windows 7 as a desktop operating system. You should have at least one year of experience in the IT field, as well as experience implementing and administering any Windows client operating system in a networked environment. | CHAPTER 10 DirectAccess and VPN Connections Virtual private networks VPNs allow you to access a workplace network remotely whether you are just down the road from the office at a local coffee shop or in an airport lounge on the other side of the world. If the infrastructure in your office is set up correctly all you need to use a VPN is to have access to the Internet. Once you have a successful Internet connection you can access all resources on the corporate network. In this chapter you learn about new virtual private networking technologies included with Windows 7 as well as others with which you may already be familiar. One of these new technologies allows your computer running Windows 7 to reconnect automatically to an existing VPN session if something disrupts your connection or when you switch one Internet service provider ISP to another. DirectAccess another new feature is a different kind of VPN solution that provides an always-on connection to a corporate network that becomes active as soon as the client running Windows 7 detects a connection to the Internet. In reading this chapter you also learn about how to deal with clients that require remediation before they are able to access networks that use Network Access Protection NAP and how to configure Remote Desktop to access internal network servers without having to configure a VPN connection. Exam objectives in this chapter Configure DirectAccess. Configure remote connections. Lessons in this chapter Lesson 1 Managing DirectAccess 515 Lesson 2 Remote Connections 530 CHAPTER 10 513 Before You Begin To complete the exercises in the practices in this chapter you need to have done the following Installed Windows 7 on a stand-alone client PC named Canberra as described in Chapter 1 Install Migrate or Upgrade to Windows 7. To perform the exercises in Lesson 2 you should ensure that the Canberra client running Windows 7 has an active Internet connection. REAL WORLD Orin Thomas The biggest drawback to being able