I can answer at least one of them.

I downvoted this one (and none of your other ones, and don't think I ever saw those to be honest):

http://serverfault.com/questions/97647/how-to-quickly-and-easily-set-up-and-maintain-vpns-have-juniper-ssg-140

Why did it even come up?  Someone edited your question and set it to vote close.

I downvoted it after seeing it per the downvote "rules":

`This question does not show any research effort...it is unclear or not useful`

as well as did my own vote to close...


The reason I voted this way was because reading the question (and being an SME of sorts on Netscreens) I felt the question lacked any research.  You didn't post options you were considering such as NSM, etc.  You didn't state an Juniper KB articles you found confusing/intimidating (they have full flowcharts and walkthroughs for VPNs, and the GUI on the Netscreens has VPN wizards).  It was more of a rant question  followed up with an opinion question:

> I find setting up new VPN profiles to be a PITA. I have to follow a
> bunch of steps, test it out, etc etc.
> 
> I find running an SSH server is easier as far as new user set up (e.g.
> the user accounts are in active directory, and there are other easy
> tings about it.)

Also, your real question was `How can I make this easy as pie to administer and manage?` which is basically akin to asking a question like `"How can I make administering [insert IT tech here] easy as pie to administer and manage?"`.  It became strictly opinion based at that point.

I wouldn't be too concerned about my downvote though...I meant nothing personal against you.  It was more along the lines of like Ward states in voting "school" about how/when to vote.  It doesn't bother me at all what you've been posting in Meta.  I think you have some valid points and some not so much.  I would never set out to "get at" someone on the main site or Meta...I have no beef with anyone here and if I did I would address it in chat and not via votes.