Like pervious versions of Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 includes a very nice Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) that you can use to create VPN connectoids that users can use to connect to your Windows Server 2008 VPN servers. Actually, you can use the connectoids to connect to any Windows VPN server, as along as you’re using the supported protocols.
The advantage to using the CMAK is that you can create an executable file that users can download from a Web site. Then all they have to do is double click on the file and the connectoid that you’ve configured for them will be automatically installed on their computers. The users then just need to double click on the connectoid object in the Network Connections folder to dial up the VPN connection. This incurs much less overhead than trying to teach the users how to create their own VPN connections.
Taking a look at the Windows Server 2008 CMAK and how you can use it to create secure connections for PPTP, L2TP and SSTP remote access VPN client connections.
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