Configuring a cross-premises virtual network

In this section, you will gain an understanding of the steps needed to configure a point-to-site VPN. This is the type of cross-premises network configuration you would use when you don't have an appropriate VPN device for a site-to-site connection, or you only have a very small number of clients that you need to connect to. The process is similar but not identical for a site-to-site configuration. You will probably need advice from the network administrator when it comes to configuring this for a production environment.

This task can be broken down into three major steps:

• Configuring the virtual network with a dynamic gateway

• Creating the certificates

• Deploying the VPN client

Configuring the virtual network with a dynamic gateway

The first of these steps is to create a new network with the appropriate options selected in the Azure Management Portal:

1. Log in to the management portal and scroll to the Networks section on the right-hand side menu list.

2. Click...