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Configure RADIUS

Configure RADIUS

- [Instructor] The exam may test your knowledge of configuring RADIUS authentication for the Azure point-to-site VPN scenario. So you'll want to be familiar with what RADIUS brings to the table and the high level steps. So in an enterprise scenario, we're typically connecting back to our on-premises data center to a RADIUS server that's quite often connecting us to our Active Directory Domain Services environment to authenticate to a domain controller. Now that requires local network device connectivity. And remember that Active Directory Domain Services is not your only option. We can add any identity provider that supports RADIUS there and is compatible with our VPN client. One interesting option is a network policy server for MFA with Entra. And this is a scenario I'd like you to at least read about since it allows us to tap into Entra and MFA for tunnel types that wouldn't otherwise support it. So the advantages of RADIUS authentication, utilizing a RADIUS server provides…

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