Summary

The technology of today demands for most companies to enable their employees to work from wherever they are. More and more organizations are hiring a work from home workforce, and need a secure, stable, and efficient way to provide access of corporate data and applications to these mobile workers. The Remote Access role in Windows Server 2016 is designed to do exactly that. With three different ways of providing remote access to corporate resources, IT departments have never had so much remote access technology available at their fingertips, built right into the Windows operating system that they already own. If you are still supporting a third-party or legacy VPN system, you should definitely explore the new capabilities provided here and discover how much they could save for your business.

DirectAccess is particularly impressive and compelling; it's a brand new way of looking at remote access. Automatic connectivity includes always-on machines that are constantly being patched and...