Remote Access Logging

Remote Access Logging

This is not required in order to have a working VPN but I suggest you to have a look as logs are also important.

1. Open Routing and Remote Access.
2. Right click on Remote Access Logging & Policies and click Launch NPS.
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3. Now here you can even use the setup Wizard in order to set up logging against an SQL server for instance. I don’t want to do that as I only want to change the log file location and the behavior should the logging fail.
4. Under Accounting click Change Log File Properties.
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5. I will keep If logging fails, discard connection requests checked as it’s important to prevent new connections should the logging fail as a) it’ll help me noticing right away when I try connecting and b) I will have the latest logs available should the VPN server fail for any reason.
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6. Under Log File tab instead, I changed the log file location to match a subfolder so that the VPN logs will not be mixed with others. Since this is a test and I won’t have much logging going on as it’s not a production box, I also want to create a new log every 5MB and start deleting them should the disk get full.
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This is how to set up an L2TP VPN Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 from start to finish, enjoy!