You were recently hired as a Network Administrator at Trek Bikes. Instead of bei

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You were recently hired as a Network Administrator at Trek Bikes. Instead of being able to focus on the server environment, you have been bombarded with issues from your remote users. A large percentage of the sales and marketing staff are constantly on the road. Unfortunately, they’re constantly having problems with the legacy VPN too. Your new boss just wants you to fix it, but doesn’t really give you any resources. All you have is a SSH login to an ancient VPN appliance that looks like it’s from the 1980’s. It’s dreadful. It’s not integrated with Active Directory. It runs some IPsec-based VPN solution that barely runs on the staff’s new Windows 10 laptops. You’re still new at Trek, but you think it’s worth proposing a new VPN solution. Write an email to your boss discussing the pros (or cons) of deploying Microsoft's DirectAccess instead of keeping the legacy VPN solution. Explain what you’ll need to get the solution in place and what benefits it’ll provide to the remote staff.

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Dear Sir/Ma'am,

As per your directions of fixing the legacy VPN of our organization, i was looking in to it. But after some observations i realized that the legacy VPN we are using is quiet old. Our sales representatives who are perpetually on the field are running in to issues constantly. More over it barely runs on our staff's Windows 10 Laptop.
Therefore, I would like to suggest the deployment of Microsoft's DirectAccess instead of keeping the legacy VPN solution.
Allow me to use this opportunity to explain the merits and demerits of using Microsoft's DirectAccess.

Microsoft's DirectAccess connects windows 7 users to private networks and it's resources. Microsoft's DirectAccess uses authenticated, auto-initiated, encrypted IPv6/IPsec ESP tunnels.

Merits of using Microsoft's DirectAccess are as follows-

Demerits of using Microsoft's DirectAccess are as follows-

I hope i did a good job in explaining the advantages of using Microsoft's DirectAccess and also the roadblocks that can be faced while deploying it.
Please consider my suggestions.

Regards

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