Setting up a VPN for remote access

[swarohi]

Hey all.

 

Just started at a school in the last month. They paid someone to setup a VPN that staff could use to access the network from their work laptops at home.

 

This VPN presented them with an alternative log in when they were signed out.

 

However it just hasn't been working for any member of staff and the company that installed it refuse to support because 'it works from their end'.

 

I would like to put in a new service for remote working. Any suggestions and guides on how to get this done?

 

Many many thanks!

[Blue_Cookeh]

If you have Enterprise or Education installed I'd definitely go down the DirectAccess route for a more seamless and robust experience, built into Windows Server. Failing that, I'd just use the RAS feature in Windows Server and deploy the VPN config, users would probably connect in a similar way to they do with your previous solution.

[swarohi]

If you have Enterprise or Education installed I'd definitely go down the DirectAccess route for a more seamless and robust experience, built into Windows Server. Failing that, I'd just use the RAS feature in Windows Server and deploy the VPN config, users would probably connect in a similar way to they do with your previous solution.

Yes I did stumble across that. Had a brief attempt at playing with it but ran into some problems. Any guides you know of that do a good job of running through the process?

 

Thanks for your help

[Psrsystems]

i have also had problems setting up DA in we lost the printers on and off!

[Arthur]

Any guides you know of that do a good job of running through the process?

By far the best guide I have found is this book...

 

www.apress.com/gb/book/9781484220580

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LWEOAVE