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Allowing DirectAccess to other internal Subnets or VLANs in your Network

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If you’ve got DirectAccess running in your environment for remote access you’ll know how great and seamless it is for your end users. For businesses with large segmented internal networks we need to make sure that your external users can access all of the internal resources they need.

For this to happen we need to add static routes to our DirectAccess servers so that remote users can access these other networks.  Your DirectAccess server should have two NICs with one being the external and the other for your LAN, we add these static routes onto the LAN (as the Gateway has been defined on the External NIC only). We can issue the following PowerShell command to add a static route to an interface.

New-NetRoute -InterfaceAlias  -DestinationPrefix  -NextHop

an example is as follows

New-NetRoute -InterfaceAlias LAN -DestinationPrefix 10.1.10.0/24 -NextHop 10.1.1.1

This would allow any of our DirectAccess clients to access the 10.1.10.0/24 network even though our default internal network would be 10.1.1.0/24.

If need be you can use Remove-NetRoute to remove these static routes in future.

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