Top five VPN tips of '05

VPN tips provide you with technical procedures to guide you in your own VPN decision making and implementation. Here we present you with our top five VPN tips of the year. These are the tips that our readers found most useful, most helpful and most interesting in 2005.

1. Step by step guide: How to set up a VPN
   A VPN is extremely useful to an organization with a lot of remote users, but it can be somewhat complicated to set up. This guide will walk you step-by-step through the process.

2. VPN Crash Course
   Get the lowdown on virtual private networks (VPNs) and learn how they can help your remote workers.

3. Selling and explaining VPNs
   Before anybody can grapple with the technical issues involved in choosing, implementing, and maintaining a VPN, one has to go through the exercise of explaining and selling the notion of virtual private networking to those who approve whatever investments of time, effort, and money are necessary to introduce and use this technology. Fortunately, there is a lot of information available.

4. VPN options
   The decision to implement a VPN can be dictated by many factors and it makes sense to understand the types of VPN offerings and products that are in the marketplace. This article provides an overview of the VPN technology options available today.

5. VPN troubleshooting
   There are several aspects of the Windows remote access server that can create issues when a VPN client connects. This article focuses on some common trouble spots on the server side and offers steps to help pinpoint the problem.

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