Plan Deployment for Remote Management of DirectAccess Clients

Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

The following topics provide planning steps for deploying a single Remote Access server running that can be used for remote management of DirectAccess clients.

Step 1: Plan the Remote Access Infrastructure: This topic helps you plan the network topology and server settings, firewall requirements, certificate requirements, Domain Name System requirements, DirectAccess network location server and management servers' configuration, Active Directory requirements, and Group Policy Object creation.

Step 2: Plan the Remote Access Deployment: Plan client and server deployment strategies and infrastructure servers' configurations.