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DirectAccess IPD guide
September 15, 2009
Microsoft’s Infrastructure Planning and Development guide for DirectAccess is now available in Beta form, the intent being to solicit feedback. Having already crossed this bridge myself, I recommend taking this opportunity to read the guide and ask questions if you think you may find yourself tasked with investigating, deploying, or integrating with DirectAccess. It’s a complex, albeit compelling, technology (or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it’s a compelling application of several complex technologies).
What is DirectAccess? Well, I won’t be able to do it better justice than this TechNet video. But briefly it’s an always-connected roaming user solution for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
One additional observation, since the developers in the audience may be asking, “I’m not an IT guy; why should I care?” Because developers should be writing their software to (a) operate securely regardless of whether it’s behind a firewall, (b) smoothly transition between connected and disconnected states, and (c) be compatible with IPv6.
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