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Quick Installation Guide This guide will walk an IT administrator through the process of configuring the appliance for the first time. It also details how to configure a Windows XP client for 802.1x access through the RDS appliance.
552KB
User’s Guide The RDS User's Guide details how to properly configure, manage, and maintain the RDS appliance. Auxiliary to the online help, this also gives a good basic overview of RADIUS and potential use cases.
1.3 MB
RSA SecurID Integration This document describes how to integrate RSA Authentication Manager or the RSA SecurID appliance with the RDS appliance. Specifically, it covers the deployment of an RDS appliance with SecurID and wireless networks.
1.2 MB
Note: These documents were created by Microsoft and cover various deployment scenarios and general concepts associated with Internet Authentication Service (IAS). IAS is one of the key technologies used by the RDS appliance and many of the same topics apply.
Deploying IAS This is a chapter from the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide that discusses the IAS implementation and gives an excellent overview of RADIUS design, deployment, integration, and benefits/features.
484 KB
802.1x Switches This document covers deployment of IAS in conjunction with 802.1x enabled switches. This deployment scenario requires that users authenticate to the wired network and ensures that there are no rogue connections compromising your LAN.
396 KB
Architecting WLANs The architecture and concepts involved with creating a secure and scalable wireless LAN are described in this Microsoft document. This document gives a good design overview of components required within an ideal WLAN.
2.0 MB
VLANs This document describes how to create virtual LANs (VLANs) so you can segregate network traffic for different users. For instance, guest users utilizing your LAN could be limited to accessing limited resources.
192 KB
PEAP and WLANs Learn about Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) and how network administrators can achieve encrypted authentication from the client to the RDS appliance.
220 KB
PKI and WLANs This guide is a walkthrough for deploying Microsoft PKI technologies, configuring the RADIUS appliance, assigning certificates to access points, and setting up the WLAN.
732 KB
RSA and WLANs This guide is a high level overview covering RSA two-factor authentication (SecurID) in conjunction with with wireless networks.
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