Preparing your Remote Access servers for DirectAccess

We are first going to walk through some standard operating procedures that you will want to take on every one of your Windows Server 2012 servers that you are planning to turn into Remote Access / DirectAccess servers. Whether working on the first DirectAccess server in your entire environment, or preparing a second, third, or eighth node that will be joined to an existing DirectAccess load-balanced array, follow these steps to ensure those machines meet the requirements, and that you aren't going to run into messages or have to backtrack and adjust settings after running through the wizards to activate DirectAccess.