The mixed reports that I’ve read up to this point didn’t really nail down whether or not SSTP as a VPN protocol was going to be included in SP3. Last night I updated one of my machines to SP3 and confirmed it is not present. That’s a bummer. That’s an incredibly useful protocol and would have been extremely handy to backport to XP, but instead it’s still only supported for Vista or Server 2008 clients. Lame. I’m sure Microsoft didn’t want to give anyone more reason not to upgrade to Vista.
No SSTP in XP SP3
May 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment
May 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Our comapny has around 5000 users total we use pptp l2tp protocals coming off of ISA server 2006 boxes. We are a windows xp shopped backed by 2003 servers. I really thought MS was going to port this over to service pack 3 for XP. When will MS realize that the world loves XP and hates Vista. I was going to bring in a 2008 server just for this I really wanted to get it going for our remote sales force. Well since I can’t use XP I will have to move on to a Cisco SSL soultion or Sonicwall’s