Is there any way to deploy an AllUsers VPN connection via group policy

Question

Hi,

We have previously deployed per user VPN connections to users either manually, or by using a login powershell script to deploy a VPN connection in a users context.

I would like to remove these per user connections, and deploy a global VPN connection using the -AllUsersConnection switch for Add-VpnConnection. This switch requires admin privileges, so amending the existing login script with this switch isn't going to work.

Is there any way I can push this connection via group policy any way, to save me having to do this manually?

Many thanks
James

Answer 1

We have decided to go with an approach I came across on Spiceworks, whereby it was suggested to setup the VPN as required, then copy the "rasphone.pbk" to the target machines via Group Policy Preferences.

This seems to work well, and can be deployed to %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk to deploy and All Users connection successfully.

The only downside to this approach (which does not affect us in our use case), is it will overwrite any VPN connections not contained within the new PBK.

Answer 2

Hi,

Thanks for posting in Q&A platform.

Kindly check if methods in the following article was helpful:

DEPLOY WINDOWS VPN USING GP PREFERENCES
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Best Regards,
Sunny

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