Advantages of SSTP
The SSTP protocol in Windows Server 2012 enables administrators to establish tunnels across the majority of corporate networks, bypassing many of the technical hurdles that stop PPTP and L2TP.
The advantages of SSTP are as follows:
• SSTP helps lower administrative costs by reducing the technical steps needed to tunnel between organizations. Because HTTPS is allowed through most firewalls and proxy servers, there is no additional infrastructure changes needed to support SSTP.
• SSTP is certificate-based security implemented via SSL. However, certificates only need to be issued to the servers rather than the clients. This provides the security benefits of L2TP, but with almost the ease of configuration of PPTP.
The benefits ...
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