Microsoft RAS VPN and VXLAN not quite working

I’m not overly knowledgeable about advanced networking but I figured I’d share this since I couldn’t find anything online about it at the time. We run a Microsoft Remote Access Server (RAS) for our VPN server. We provide L2TP primarily for users. Due to a limitation in the Windows VPN client our RAS server has … Read more

Some users cannot login to new NPS based VPN server

Our environment previous used a Windows 2003 Server running RAS to offer our employees VPN. This server went away for multiple reasons and we built a brand new 2012 R2 server running NPS and RAS. Since switching over we’ve had a few employees unable to login to the new VPN server. They keep getting “Invalid … Read more

DFS not working properly over VPN for personal computers

We recently switched to a new VPN server after Mac OS dropped support for PPTP and because we were way overdue to do it anyway. Since then personal computers were unable to access network shares via DFS. They could go directly to the file server and that would work. Users who connected to VPN with … Read more