Mastering Windows Server 2016

Chapter 6. Enabling Your Mobile Workforce

Giving employees the ability to remotely access corporate resources used to be a big benefit to most companies, but not necessarily a requirement. That has certainly changed in the past few years, where most companies and employees have the expectation that they will be able to get their work done from wherever they happen to be. Cell phones are a big part of this equation, but are very limited in scope of what can be done with the small screens and restricted operating systems. In order to grant remote workers the ability to do their jobs from home, the coffee shop, or hotels, we have traditionally used Virtual Private Networking (VPN), and most of the VPNs that exist in today's businesses are provided ...