Substantial interest in VPN has been created by concerns for privacy and data protection. You, the administrator must be aware of security concepts and network designs, and yet, customers require flexible network environments that will satisfy the needs of today's computer users. You must support laptop users, home LAN environments, complex branch offices, and more--all within a secure and effective network design. The way you implement VPNs in Windows 2000 is different than any other operating system. Windows 2000 Virtual Private Networking will cover all aspects of both the tunnel client. Microsoft is using PPTP, L2TP and IPSec all in this one product and the configuration of both tunnel and transport configuration can be very complex. This book covers what you, the network designer can do with this capability; new VPN features that can affect Active Directory replication; network address translation; Proxy and more will be covered in depth.

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Finally a VPN manual that tells it like it is! - 2001-05-15
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We are a small company that is deploying Windows 2000 as our VPN solution and had been having problems understanding all of the issues with the deployment. This book puts it all together and explains the whole picture of how the deployment should work. I particularly found the chapter of Proxy and NAT information helpful. I have NEVER seen a book the explains all of the issues and basic differences between different types of connection sharing devices.

Also, the book covers about 20 different designs of how you can put together your network with both the tunnel server and the home LANs (a lot of my users have home LANs). It is neat how Thaddeus did not try to tell the reader how they should do it, but rather lists the advantages and disadvantages of each.

I cannot recommend this book enough!

Thank you.

Covers what the network designer can do - 2001-04-28
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Substantial interest in VPN has been created by concerns for privacy and data protection. However, VPNs implementation in Windows 2000 is different than any other operating system. Microsoft is using PPTP, L2TP and IPSec all in Windows 2000 Virtual Private Networking and the configuration of both tunnel and transport configuration can be very complex. Thaddeus Fortenberry's Windows 2000 Virtual Private Networking covers what the network designer can do with this increased capability, new VPN features that can affect Active Directory replication, and network address translation. 408 pp.

A very practical book - 2001-07-31
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This is a very practical book. Which is wonderful if that's what you are looking for. There are other books with better theoretical discussions of what IPSec is. But few books are as helpful in getting IPSec to actually work in a Windows 2000 environment. I found it very helpful in setting up a few Windows 2000 VPN servers.

VPN for the hand-on people - 2001-04-03
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This book is very good, it has a good balance of theory and practical tips. It is a must have for anyone that has to implement VPN on the Windows 2000 platform.

A good addition to you library.

Mediocre - 2001-11-28
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This is a mediocre book. I find the style of writing somewhat confused.
Like the half dozen other books on networking and information security that I bought from New Riders over the past few years (this was definitely the last one) it makes you wonder if they employ editors at all.

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