Set Up and Edit VPN Connections in Windows 8

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Updated: June 7, 2016

Applies To: Windows 8

Yous can use this topic to larn how to create a virtual private network (VPN) connection on a client computer or device that is running Windows 8.

You lot can besides acquire how to edit and delete existing VPN connections.

You can use VPN connections to other networks, such equally your organization'southward network, only when you take permissions to practise so from your organization.

VPN connections allow you to connect to a remote network across the Internet in a secure fashion. If you are not a member of an organization that requires or allows remote connections, y'all do not need to create VPN connections.

Annotation

This topic is intended only for utilise with computers and devices that are running Windows 8. These instructions do not apply to earlier or afterwards versions of the operating system.

This topic contains the following sections.

  • Prerequisites

  • Create a new VPN connection

  • Connect to a corporate network by using an existing VPN connection

  • Edit connection properties

  • Delete a connection

Prerequisites

Following are the prerequisites for creating a VPN connection and for connecting to your organization network by using the VPN connectedness.

  • To create a VPN connection, you must know the IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the VPN server to which you want to connect. For example, if yous work for an system named Contoso and the Contoso VPN server is named VPN1.contoso.com and has an IP address of 10.0.0.25, y'all must take this information ready when y'all create your VPN connection to the server.

  • To connect to a VPN server at your organization, you must know your user proper name and password. If you do non know your user proper noun and password, you should talk to your organization Assistance Desk-bound earlier attempting to connect to the arrangement network.

  • To connect to a VPN server at your organisation, you lot must have permission from your arrangement to practice and so. If y'all are unable to connect to your arrangement network past using a VPN connection, you should talk to your arrangement Help Desk to detect out if you have permission to connect from a remote location.

  • To connect to a VPN server at your system, your computer or device must be connected to the Internet.

  • If your organization requires yous to use a smart card to connect with VPN, you must take a smart bill of fare reader and a smart carte connected to your computer or device before you lot attempt to connect to your organization. If your organization uses virtual smart cards, y'all must take a virtual smart card installed on the computer or device.

  • If you are unable to create a VPN connection by using this topic and if your computer or device is joined to your arrangement'southward domain, it is possible that your arrangement does not let creation of VPN connections on your computer. If this is the example, you should talk to your organisation Help Desk to find out if you accept permission to create VPN connections to connect to your organization network.

Create a new VPN connection

You can create a new VPN connection from First or the Desktop.

Yous can apply the following sections to create a new VPN connection.

  • Create a new VPN connectedness from the Desktop

  • Create a new VPN connection from the Start screen

Create a new VPN connection from the Desktop

Y'all tin can use the post-obit procedure to create a new VPN connection from the desktop of your Windows viii computer.

To create a new VPN connection

  1. In the task bar, locate and right-click on the Network icon. Click Open Network and Sharing Center. Network and Sharing Center opens.

  2. In Network and Sharing Middle, in Change your networking settings, click Set upwards a new connection or network. The Gear up a Connection or Network wizard opens.

  3. In Choose a connectedness choice, click Connect to a workplace, and so click Next.

  4. In How do yous want to connect, click Apply my Internet connection (VPN).

  5. If the sorcerer asks whether you want to set up an Cyberspace connectedness, make your selection to set up i up now or postpone until later.

  6. In Type the Internet address to connect to, in Net accost, type the IP address of the VPN server to which yous want to connect. In Destination name type a friendly name to help yous identify the VPN connection later on. For example, if y'all work for an system named Contoso, type Contoso VPN connection. Also select any check boxes that are advisable for your situation.

  7. Click Create. The VPN connection is created and the Networks side bar opens to show y'all the network connections that are configured on the computer.

Connecting by using your VPN connection

Afterward you have created a VPN connectedness, the easiest way to admission it from the desktop is to left-click the network icon in the organization tray. The left-click opens the Networks side bar and displays your VPN connexion. To connect, left click the VPN connection, and then click Connect, In Network Authentication, type your user name in the format DOMAIN\User name, and and so blazon your countersign.

Create a new VPN connection from the First screen

In Windows eight, you tin can use the Go Connected Sorcerer to create a VPN profile. To launch the wizard, type vpn in Settings, and and then click Prepare a virtual private network (VPN) connection.

Figure i: Launch the Get Connected Wizard

In the wizard, you volition provide the Internet accost of the Remote Admission VPN server to which you will connect, and a name for the new connection. You lot tin can use an IP accost or the fully qualified domain name of the Remote Access server.

To find your server settings, on a computer running Windows 8 with a VPN already configured, view the connectedness properties as shown in Effigy viii. The destination proper name is the text that will be used for the VPN connection proper name (profile name), as shown in Figure ii.

You tin can click Recall Credentials to save your credentials on the first successful connection try. This creates a new REF _Ref324847461 \h Discovery Profile, which the client can use to connect to the VPN.

Figure 2 shows the only information that you need to create a VPN profile. During the first successful connection effort, authentication and tunneling protocols are automatically negotiated between the VPN server and your computer, and are configured for user proper name and password-based VPN deployments. Afterwards these protocols are negotiated, yous tin can edit the settings in Connexion Properties.

Figure 2: Go Connected Sorcerer Screen 1

Connect to a corporate network by using an existing VPN connectedness

To connect with an existing VPN connection

  1. Open Charms by moving the cursor to the summit or bottom correct corner of your estimator screen. It can besides be accessed by using the Win+C keyboard shortcut.

    Figure 3: Charms Bar

  2. Click Settings, and and then click the network icon that is displayed in the right corner of the screen, as shown in Figure 4.

    Figure four: Network icon location

  3. In Networks, click the VPN connexion that you lot want to use, and then click Connect.

    Effigy 5: Connect to VPN

When you click Connect, a new connexion is negotiated with the server past using the saved credentials. If you did not previously select Remember Credentials while creating the connection, you will exist asked to provide credentials.

Tip

When you select Call up my credentials when you create your connection, you lot won't be asked for the credentials in further connection attempts. To clear the cached credentials, right-click the connection, and and so select Clear Cached Credentials, equally shown in the following figure.

Figure six: Specify VPN connexion credentials

Figure 7: Clear cached credentials

Edit connection backdrop

To edit a connection that y'all take already configured, right-click the connection, and then select Connectedness Properties.

To access Connexion Backdrop, in the Networks, click View Connexion Properties.

Effigy 8: Connection Properties

Connection Properties has iv tabs as shown in Figure 8. Click each tab to perform the following tasks:

  • Full general

    Change the VPN server host proper noun or IP address. Additionally, configure an interface to public network.

  • Options

    Configure signal-to-point protocol (PPP) settings and enable or disable caching of credentials.

  • Security

    Configure tunnels, hallmark, and encryption settings.

  • Networking

    Configure transports (or protocols). The near common protocols are TCP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6.

Delete a connection

On the Showtime screen, click Search in Charms, type vpn, and then click View Network Connections under Settings.

Figure 9: View Network Connections

Right-click a VPN connectedness, and then click Delete, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure ten: Deleting a connection