How to setup RRAS / VPN on server 2008 R2

In this video i will show you how to setup vpn on server 2008 r2 so you and your customers can vpn into your house or you corporate network.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• VPM
• RRAS
• Server 2008
• server 2008 R2
• Active Directory
• AD
• IT
• Computers

[Essentia2]

Why do you only use PPTP? It's the most insecure of all types of connections!

Since this is a tutorial, I find it being a merit to help people set up a more complicated and more secure VPN.

[howithink]

@Essentia2 Thanks for your concern. I find it that many people don’t know how to setup vpn in general. This is a quick and easy way to setup vpn. I'm sure you can do a more secure and a more sophisticated setup.

[Essentia2]

@howithink Kind of hard for me to get it right, too >_< It's difficult to make it work right, which is why I urge you all the more to make a video for SSTP/L2TP with troubleshooting. I think THAT would indeed be appreciated. That way you get a safe VPN, and everyone is happy.

[howithink]

@Essentia2 True, SSTP is not supported by XP and majority of the folks at my company use xp. L2TP is a mess setting up with firewall. Although do'able if you dont want certificate server, you can use preshare key and maybe get it to work, i couldnt. SSTP is great and works great on windows 7, but you do need a certificate server or a self signed certificate which means every user must export the certificate (this is where user errors come in). I'll make a video on sstp vpn soon.

[yesterdaysguy]

This is great but there is one major mistake.....DO NOT enable the catch all rule in NPS.....you should instead create a rule with a lower number (processing order number) and then specify the connection types you want to allow......OTHERWISE THIS LEAVES YOUR RRAS server WIDE OPEN

[howithink]

@yesterdaysguy Thanks for the clarification .

[skyiporg]

howithink - how about a tutorial when you assign STATIC & Public Dedicated IP address (in case your server has multiple public IP addresses of course) to a vpn client? Not internal IP and do NAT. That would be really useful and I can not find any tutorial anywhere :) what you think can you do it ?

[JRichens]

Well, only you could help me with this.... I finally got it to work with your instructions.

I am using Windows Server Standard 2008 R2 and the only extra thing I did was forward port 1723 (PPTP) to my server in the NETGEAR router.

[bartedson]

Thank you for a clear step by step. This was most helpful. Great work.

[carlosturn]

How do i configure Windows 7 to work with these settings. I cant get it right..