Setting up a VPN

[Frizat]

We are about to upgrade from Small Biz Server 2k > 2k3 and are going to try to setup a VPN, i have spent the last couple hours on the net trying to gather as much information as necessary but it left my rather confused. I see that alot of Firewalls offer VPN support/setup, yet SBS2k3 offers it as well, is either one of these a better way of going about setting up a secure VPN, i figure the firewall would be the most secure and easiest but i would like to hear others opinions, most of the guides i read on microsoft.com are extremely confusing
Thanks

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Frizat

Yes you need to firewall a server
Yes you need a firewall capable of vpn if you want to firewall your server and use a vpn connection.

Yes SBS2k3 does have a vpn server facility.

What you maybe confused about is a vpn firewall/vpn appliance. A vpn appliance is the hardware version of the vpn software server on 2k3.

VPN is on as secure as you set it up. vpn uses ipsec

A more in depth explanation