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    Does anyone have a link to a directaccess step by step guide? Besides the one from Microsoft to do with the lab enviroment? I haven't got a bunch of Win2K8 boxes sitting around and I'm having a ____ of a time getting it to work in my enviroment.
    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:44 PM

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    Hi Ryan,

    The best we have out there right now is the step-by-step guide for the test lab and the DirectAccess Design Guide (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee382297(WS.10).aspx). DirectAccess is a non-trivial solution to deploy for an arbitrary existing network infrastructure. You might want to review the Design Guide to make sure that you are including all of the elements of a DirectAccess deployment.

    I am working on writing, reviewing, and publishing the DirectAccess Deployment Guide in the coming months (Oct/Nov), which will be a series of checklists and procedures for the most common and supported configurations.
    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:19 PM

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    Hi Ryan,

    The best we have out there right now is the step-by-step guide for the test lab and the DirectAccess Design Guide (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee382297(WS.10).aspx). DirectAccess is a non-trivial solution to deploy for an arbitrary existing network infrastructure. You might want to review the Design Guide to make sure that you are including all of the elements of a DirectAccess deployment.

    I am working on writing, reviewing, and publishing the DirectAccess Deployment Guide in the coming months (Oct/Nov), which will be a series of checklists and procedures for the most common and supported configurations.
    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:19 PM
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    Thanks for your reply. I've got that document and was trying to adapt it to my enviroment. However, I'm going to just run through the whole lab and see how all the pieces fit together. One question though, does DA require an Enterprise edition of 2008r2 running on a domain controller. I seem to read different requirements depending on the article I have. In the lab, it states Enterprise edition. But the technet article simply states one DC and one DNS sever running 2008 or 2008r2
    Wednesday, September 2, 2009 5:43 PM
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    Enterprise Edition for the test lab was for Certificate Services and the use of custom templates. I just found out that Enterprise Edition is no longer required for this. You can use Standard Edition. I will update the test lab document.

    Wednesday, September 2, 2009 9:49 PM
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    Ryan, if I may. I believe that limitation is not right, as Joe already put it. I've managed to use my own DC, CS, DHCP, DNS and IIS on Windows 2008 Standard (not R2). Only used Windows 2008 Enterprise to host the DirectAccess server on Hyper-V. And, besides some small problems with IP-HTTPS, managed to get everything working now.
    As far as I could understand, the only need for R2 server, besides DirectAccess, of course, is IIS7.5 for IP-HTTPS. My external DNS server is even an old Windows 2003 Server. Probably I'm wrong, I don't know, but a single Windows 2008 Standard R2 will do the trick.

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    Rui Meleiro
    Thursday, September 3, 2009 12:15 AM