Re: Dial-up networking

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In answer to your question, we use VPN unless there is no broadband
available. Then its back to dial-up.

While I have your attention though I'm gonna give my plea for making the
documentation actual documentation, not the 10000 ft view. The current
documentation on VPN/RRAS that I can find uses way too many wizards to get
things done and reminds me of how I have to talk to non-technical people
about what I do.
Don't get me wrong... I use and love wizards. It's just sometimes they don't
work or need some small adjustments. When that happens I turn to
documentation to see what I need to get done and in many cases the
documentation consists of screen captures walking through the wizard
steps(ALL the MS people I see working live on stage use command-line tools
unless the purpose of the talk is how to use the wizard).
I'm a developer who got stuck doing network admin work because no one else
wants to. I don't read RFC's for fun, or study up on differences between
PPTP/IPSEC. Current ISA 2004 documentation doesn't describe which ports PPTP
uses(they say its not an MS standard). Fine.... how about a link to an RFC
describing it? something is better than the vacuum that currently exists.
Thanks for your attention. I appreciate the effort for feedback.
--Matt


"Jim Holtzman [MS]" <jimholtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ekwFn3EKGHA.1312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings,

I'm a technical writer at Microsoft working on Windows Server Routing and
Remote Access documentation. I'm scoping content revisions for the next
set of RRAS documents and wanted to get a sense of how much dial-up
networking with Windows Server is still going on. I'm contemplating
reducing dial-up networking coverage and emphasizing VPN coverage.

Please let me know your thoughts.



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