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Whether traveling for business, taking work home at night, or simply bringing a portable computer
to a meeting in the conference room down the hall, mobility is essential to a worker’s computing
experience. As a result, more organizations are helping their people work from anywhere. Windows
7 makes it easy for workers to get connected and stay connected, regardless of location or type of
network. Windows 7 not only supports the needs of employees, but it also helps you meet those needs
securely, reliably, and cost-effectively.
More Secure Access and PC Management with DirectAccess
More people are working from places other than the of ce and accessing corporate network resources
securely and maintaining connectivity using remote access solutions, such as VPN, can add complexity
and effort. It’s also harder for you to manage those mobile PCs.
DirectAccess is a new feature that helps solve both these issues. Using DirectAccess, workers can easily
navigate to intranet sites or internal le shares and access documents from remote locations, without
establishing a VPN connection.
Because it’s based on IPv6 technology, DirectAccess also streamlines the management of remote comput-
ers. You no longer need to wait for users to return to the of ce to or connect to VPNs to update PCs.
Instead, you can keep these remote computers up-to-date with required policies or updates any time the
computers connect to the Internet—even if they aren’t logged on to the corporate network.
DirectAccess also helps improve security by taking advantage of IPsec for authentication and encryption.
As an IT administrator you can con gure the DirectAccess server to restrict the servers that workers and
individual applications can access remotely, and choose whether they require smart cards for authentica-
tion. Furthermore, smart card support does not require Windows 7 Domain Functional Mode because
it now focuses only on edge enforcement rather than both edge enforcement and local client enforce-
ment. (Please note that the option to enforce smart cards for all interactive logons is not available in the
DirectAccess wizard. If a smart card is required, an enhanced user noti cation will help inform the user.)
DirectAccess integrates with Network Access Protection (NAP) to perform compliance checking on client
computers before allowing them to connect to internal resources.
Windows 7 for IT Pros: Make People Productive Anywhere
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