Windows Admin Center option for linking a single Windows Server to a VNet by point-to-site VPN. If the VNet has no VPN gateway it creates one, taking about 25 minutes, and no VPN hardware is needed on premises.
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Terms in this definition
- Windows Admin Center
Browser-based management for Windows Server. Besides registering servers with Azure, its extensions can configure Azure Extended Network, Azure Network Adapter and Azure Backup (using MARS).
- VNet
A private network belonging to a single subscription and region and covering all of that region's availability zones. A VM can only use a VNet located in the same region.
- Point-to-site VPN
Connection type in which single client machines, rather than whole sites, tunnel into an Azure virtual network gateway. App Service gateway-required VNet integration relies on it too.
- VPN gateway
Terminates IPsec tunnels for site-to-site, point-to-site and VNet-to-VNet connections, as a VPN-type virtual network gateway in GatewaySubnet. It gets a Standard static public IP when created, and that IP can't be swapped.
- VPN
Traffic sent through an encrypted tunnel across a public network, as in a site-to-site connection to a VPN gateway in an Azure GatewaySubnet.