Managing and Supporting DirectAccess with Windows Server 2016
This course will teach you how to create a highly available DirectAccess infrastructure, enforce strong user authentication, enable and configure monitoring and reporting, configure manage out, and how to effectively troubleshoot DirectAccess.
What you'll learn
After implementing DirectAccess, you must know how to monitor, scale, and troubleshoot DirectAccess to effectively support the solution in your organization. This course, Managing and Supporting DirectAccess with Windows Server 2016, will help you implement a highly available and geographically redundant architecture to reduce potential downtime. You'll also learn how to enable and enforce strong user authentication to mitigate the risk posed by lost or stolen devices. In addition, enabling monitoring and reporting as well as managing out to remote DirectAccess clients are covered in detail. Once you've completed this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to manage and support DirectAccess in any deployment scenario.
Table of contents
- Introduction to Configuring High Availability for DirectAccess 1m
- DirectAccess Load Balancing Use Cases and NLB/ELB Comparison 6m
- Overview of Load Balancing Prerequisites 4m
- Overview of DirectAccess Load Balancing IP Address Assignment 5m
- Demonstration: Configuring Load Balancing Prerequisites 1m
- Demonstration: Enabling Load Balancing 11m
- Overview of DirectAccess Multisite 6m
- Demonstration: Enabling DirectAccess Multisite 4m
- Demonstration: Adding Additional DirectAccess Entry Point 5m
- Demonstration: Windows 10 Client Operation with Multisite 2m
- Overview of DirectAccess Multisite with GSLB 4m
- Demonstration: Enabling DirectAccess with GSLB 7m
- Summary of Configuring High Availability for DirectAccess 1m
- Intro - Enabling Strong User Authentication for DirectAccess 1m
- Overview of Multifactor Authentication 5m
- Limits and Drawbacks of DirectAccess Strong User Authentication 4m
- Strong User Authentication Installation Prerequisites 2m
- Smart Card Supporting Infrastructure Considerations 1m
- Demo: Enabling Smart Card Authentication for DirectAccess 5m
- OTP Configuration Prerequisites 2m
- Demo: Infrastructure Preparation for OTP Authentication 9m
- Demo: Enabling OTP Authentication for DirectAccess 5m
- Demo: The OTP User Experience on Windows 10 4m
- Summary of Enabling Strong User Authentication for DirectAccess 1m
- Introduction to DirectAccess Monitoring and Reporting 2m
- Monitoring the DirectAccess Server and Supporting Infrastructure 2m
- Demo: DirectAccess Monitoring in the UI and PowerShell 7m
- Demo: DirectAccess Client Connection Monitoring 8m
- Options and Requirements for Configuring DirectAccess Reporting 1m
- Demo: Configuring DirectAccess Accounting and Generating Reports 5m
- Summary of DirectAccess Monitoring and Reporting 1m
- Introduction to DirectAccess Manage Out 1m
- Common Use Cases for DirectAccess Manage Out 2m
- Manage out Requirements 3m
- Supportability for Manage out Configurations 3m
- Prerequisites for DirectAccess Manage Out 4m
- Demo: DirectAccess Manage out with ISATAP 5m
- Demo: Provision Manage out Settings with Group Policy 11m
- Summary of DirectAccess Manage Out 1m
- Introduction to DirectAccess Troubleshooting 1m
- DirectAccess Server Prerequisites and Configuration Review 12m
- Validating IPsec Certificates on the DirectAccess Server 3m
- Validating SSL Certificates on the DirectAccess Server 3m
- DirectAccess Server IPv6 Configuration Review 4m
- Windows Firewall Settings on the DirectAccess Server 3m
- DirectAccess Server Third-party Firewall Considerations 3m
- DirectAccess Server Essential Services 3m
- DirectAccess Client Prerequisites and Configuration Review 5m
- Validating DirectAccess Client Internet Connectivity 3m
- DirectAccess Client Connectivity Testing and Validation 8m
- Name Resolution Configuration Review and Testing 6m
- DirectAccess Client Troubleshooting Tool 5m
- Summary of Troubleshooting DirectAccess 1m
About the author
Richard Hicks is the founder and principal consultant at Richard M. Hicks Consulting, Inc. With more than 25 years of experience implementing secure remote access and public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions, he is a widely recognized enterprise mobility and security infrastructure expert sought after by organizations worldwide. His mission is to help companies provide visibility, control, and assurance for their field-based devices, ensuring the highest level of security and productivity for t... more