WM5, VPN via PPTP/MPPE, and direct connection to Exchange
- From: "nik" <nik_AT_cict.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:43:37 +0100
Hello mobile people:
For years my company has been providing remote access to its SBS2003 network
(including Exchange Server) using a router-based VPN service - NOT a
public-facing Windows box running ISA Server. (The sysadmin likes to keep
all his Windows boxes NATted. :-))
Standard Win2000/XP VPN clients connect to this VPN server without
problems - MPPE compression/encryption is automatically implemented by the
VPN client over the PPTP connection, and the remote machines then have LAN
addresses for accessing the Exchange Server.
Now I'm evaluating a Windows Mobile 5 device (Pocket PC type), and trying to
connect via the same VPN server - but the connection is dropped by the
server, I think because the VPN client in the mobile device doesn't support
MPPE. Or at least because it doesn't automatically use it when requested on
a PPTP connection.
Is there any way of getting the VPN client in WM5 to use MPPE?
Also, is it possible to set up a WM5 device to communicate directly with
Exchange? Part of the reason for evaluating these devices is to replace
laptops, but all the walkthroughs I can find for deploying WM5 on Windows
Server / Exchange (including cerificate installations) require that the
device is synced with a client PC. Is it practical to use WM5 devices as
standalone clients on an SBS2003 system?
Thanks for any tips!
Nik
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