I'm in the planning stages of moving from DirectAcces using UAG 2010 SP! on 2008R2 to 2012R2.
I did the original install, and will be doing the upgrade as well. No consultant needed, but I did lots of reading and asked lots of questions. We have roughly 75 people who might be in the field at any time - including at home, at tradeshows, at customers, etc. Throughput on any reasonable Internet connection is as good as any SSL VPN, but I have had occasional complaints from staff in environments with extremely constrained bandwidth. Bandwidth utilization for 2012R2 should be improved, if anything, especially for Win8.1. If you're fortunate enough to have a CA/PKI infrastructure in place, that simplifies things greatly for the initial setup if you have advanced needs, but I spun up our CA as part of the DirectAccess implementation, and it turned out to be useful for other things as well, so don't be shy about it. Advanced needs include "manage out" - the ability to manage machines while they are connected via DirectAccess. Manage out is the biggest win I'm looking for in the migration/upgrade I'll be performing, though there are some minor wins to be had as well - depending on whether your remote machines are running Win7 or Win8.1. It is just as seamless as advertised. The reading took most of the time - the actual implementation was fairly brief. I ran a pilot for about a week on a couple of IT machines just to make sure I had it correct, then unleashed by putting the required end-user machines in the security groups for the GPOs, let that percolate for a week or two, then announced it. Went like a dream. Kurt On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Kish n Kepi <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to hear from people who have implemented DirectAccess on > Windows Server 2012 R2. > > > > 1. Did you do it yourself or hire a consultant > > 2. Was it difficult, or time-consuming to deploy the solution > > 3. To how many computers did you deploy > > 4. Does it work seamlessly as advertised > > 5. Is throughput same, faster or slower than conventional VPN? > > > > Any other questions I’m not knowledgeable enough to ask? > > > > Kish
