Web Application Proxy
DirectAccess and VPN are both great remote access technologies, and combining the two of them together can provide a complete remote access solution for your organization, without having to pay for or work with a third-party solution. Better still, in Windows Server 2016 there is yet another component of the Remote Access role available to use. This third piece of the remote access story is the Web Application Proxy (WAP). This is essentially a reverse proxy mechanism, giving you the ability to take some HTTP and HTTPS applications that are hosted inside your corporate network, and publish them securely to the Internet. Any of you who have been working with Microsoft technologies in the perimeter networking space over the last few years will probably recognize a product called Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) that accomplished similar functionality. UAG is a comprehensive SSLVPN solution, also designed for publishing internal applications out to the Internet via...