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I spent yesterday evening at an Active Directory User Group (ADUG) meeting where John Craddock presented on IPv6 and DirectAccess (repeating two of John’s TechEd Europe 2009 sessions). I have to admit that, at times, I struggled to keep up as the technology went deep but it was extremely worthwhile. I hope to find the time to write some blog posts to summarise some of key points from the evening; however John also has two 10 minute videos on the Dutch site NGN, in which he “whiteboards” Direct Access and Active Directory Recycle Bin. These are worth a few minutes of your time to get a quick overview of two new technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2.
I went to a class on Windows 2008 R2 and they showed off the Direct Access. Looks nice but I think the requirement of IPv6 will slow its implementation down.