Tag: vpn

  • Quickly connect to a VPN on Windows 10 (revisited)

    Quickly connect to a VPN on Windows 10 (revisited)

    Update (June ’17): it has taken more than 1,5 years since I posted this, but the Windows 10 “Creators Update” finally contains a Connect button right in the Network Connections flyout… 🙂 Earlier I wrote about a trick to make Windows 10 connect to a VPN with a single action (double-click) instead of three or…

  • Quickly connect to a VPN on Windows 10

    All-in-all I am very happy with my upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. The procedure was smooth and almost (more on that later) everything still worked like a charm, out-of-the-box, despite having lots of not-so-obvious software on the machine. (Comes with the job as a developer, I guess.) However, one minor thing very soon annoyed…

  • Solved occasional VPN RAS error 812

    I had the exact problem Roger describes: occasionally a disconnect of my VPN and then unable to reconnect, with error message 812: The connection was prevented because of a policy configured on your RAS/VPN server. Specifically, the authentication method used by the server to verify your username and password may not match the authentication method…