Installing and Configuring OpenVPN 2.3 on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003

My previous posts (http://nkush.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/installing-openvpn-22-on-centos-63-64bit.html and http://nkush.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/installing-openvpn-22-on-centos-57.html) have been on installing OpenVPN on Linux.

This post is slightly different as it installs and configures OpenVPN on a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS). The SBS installation is also different from the previous write-ups since this configuration uses Ethernet bridging instead of tunneling.

Although SBS comes with Layer2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) and Point-to-point Tunelling Protocol (PPTP) for Virtual Private Network (VPN), some users may want to use an Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) based VPN such as OpenVPN. The default installation location, i.e. C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\ is used in the instructions below

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