Planning and Design Considerations

When deploying VPN enforcement, you must consider the following in your planning:

  • Use of Network Access Quarantine Control

  • Security group for NAP exemptions

  • Types of packet filtering

  • VPN authentication methods

  • VPN servers

  • NAP clients

Use of Network Access Quarantine Control

Network Access Quarantine Control, a feature of the Windows Server 2003 operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1), delays normal remote access to a private network until an administrator-provided script has examined and validated the configuration of the remote access computer. When a remote access computer initiates a connection to a remote access server, the user is authenticated, and the remote access computer is assigned an IPv4 address. However, ...

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