<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Gary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@eyetraxx.net">gary@eyetraxx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Kevin T. Neely wrote:<br>
> I just recall a good bit of the video's focus was aimed at the<br>
> corporate commuter types (so-called VPN-less connection to corporate<br>
> email being first in my mind), so I thought that was a market segment<br>
> they were going after.<br>
</div>That's just Microsoft ActiveSync and it's no real feat if they're just<br>
using Microsoft clients. They may also be licensing ActiveSync for any<br>
Nokia developed apps but that's just guesswork on my part.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Actually, it's a new MSFT technology called DirectConnect (or DirectAccess or something like that) that is basically a multi-path IPv6 IPSEC tunnel. I guess they can say "no VPN needed" because it only goes to the corp network when it needs to, but this seems to be really splitting hairs and I think of it as a VPN. <br>
<br>It supports multi-factor authentication (of course, this will kill the seamless nature) so I would bet this will replace the MS PPTP solution.<br><br>It requires MS Direct Connect server and something on the client end (just MS Windows, I think) for it to work. Though, if it is just IPSEC, I guess other clients could connect to it.<br>
<br>PPTP needs to be replaced, so this looks nice. Seeing as my company has its own VPN solution, I doubt we will be deploying this.<br><br>K<br><br><br>-- <br>In Vino Veritas<br><a href="http://rubbernecking.info">http://rubbernecking.info</a><br>