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Mastering Windows Server 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Server 2016 A comprehensive and practical guide to Windows Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888908
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2016 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER 3. Core Infrastructure Services 4. Certificates in Windows Server 2016 5. Networking with Windows Server 2016 6. Enabling Your Mobile Workforce 7. Hardening and Security 8. Tiny Servers 9. Redundancy in Windows Server 2016 10. Learning PowerShell 5.0 11. Application Containers and Docker 12. Virtualizing Your Datacenter with Hyper-V Index

The truth about DirectAccess and IPv6


One of the stingy requirements I mentioned used to be the need for IPv6 inside your network. With the first version of DirectAccess, this was an unfortunate requirement. I say unfortunate because even today in 2016 almost nobody is running IPv6 inside their corporate networks, let alone 8 years ago when this technology released.

A lot of admins didn't even know what IPv6 was. Fortunately, the requirement for IPv6 inside your networks is gone. I repeat, just in case anybody wasn't paying attention or is reading old outdated TechNet documents—you do not need IPv6 to use DirectAccess! Why am I shouting? Because I have seen way too many cases where DirectAccess was considered by a company, but the project was tossed aside because reading on TechNet made them believe that IPv6 was a requirement, and because nobody uses IPv6 in their networks yet, they discarded DirectAccess as something that wouldn't work. You absolutely do not have to be running IPv6 in...

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