VPN - how does serverlist work?

Anwar Mahmood 16 Reputation points
2023-02-13T16:34:45.23+00:00

In Windows 10, the VPN connection is stored in...

%appdata%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk

This can contain multiple servers;

ServerListServerName=server.domain
ServerListFriendlyName=server.domain

You can also set using...

Set-VpnConnection -ServerList

But how does this work?

  • does it try servers at random?
  • does it try a default server, but if that fails, tries other servers at random?

This might be useful to customise...

  • Staff primarily in Los Angeles connect to lavpn.contoso.net by default, but can also connect to the San Francisco server at sfvpn.contoso.net
  • New York has hundreds of users, and 10 VPN servers; ny1vpn.contoso.net, ny2vpn.contoso.net, ny3vpn.contoso.net, etc. They are assigned a default, but can connect to an alternative NY VPN server if necessary.

I cannot find any documentation from Microsoft on this.

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  1. Anwar Mahmood 16 Reputation points
    2023-02-13T17:09:03.9033333+00:00
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  2. Romain LOPES 1 Reputation point
    2023-03-31T10:31:55.5133333+00:00

    Hey

    Did you find any documentation about it ?

    I'm looking for the same information.

    Thanks

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