Tom Carpenter's Blog » windows server 2008 r2 http://www.tomcarpenter.net Helping IT Professionals Succeed Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:43:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Configure DirectAccess for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 http://www.tomcarpenter.net/2009/11/06/how-to-configure-directaccess-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2/ http://www.tomcarpenter.net/2009/11/06/how-to-configure-directaccess-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:08:46 +0000 Tom Carpenter http://www.tomcarpenter.net/2009/11/06/how-to-configure-directaccess-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2/ DirectAccess (which is properly spelled as one word and not two, such as Direct Access – even though Microsoft gets it wrong in their website meta tags – though possibly intentional) is one of the most touted new features in Windows 7. Sadly, it’s not really a Windows 7 feature alone. You must deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 in order to take advantage of the DirectAccess feature.

Microsoft has, however, provided a lab demo configuration document here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8d47ed5f-d217-4d84-b698-f39360d82fac

You can use this document as a starting point to explore DirectAccess configuration processes even if you don’t have a Server 2008 R2 machine at this time. Now, for some really good news. If you just want to play with WIndows Server 2008 R2, get the evaluation VHD that works in Hyper-V here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9040A4BE-C3CF-44A5-9052-A70314452305&displaylang=en

Hopefully this information will help you get started with configuring DirectAccess. Remember, you must configure DirectAccess on the Server 2008 R2 server as well as the Windows 7 clients.

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