Azure VPN and Client setup step by step?

Question

Hello all:

Can anyone point me at a complete step by step tutorial for setting up Azure VPN and connecting clients to it? I have found a few from Microsoft and others, but all are missing steps.

Thanks in advance for any and all input.

John.

Answer 1

@John Straumann Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A. I understand that you want to setup a VPN to Azure and connect clients to the same.

Are you looking for setting up a S2S VPN or P2S VPN? Here are more details regarding what a P2S VPN and S2S VPN is-

Point-to-Site VPN connections are useful when you want to connect to your VNet from a remote location, such when you are telecommuting from home or a conference. You can also use P2S instead of a Site-to-Site VPN when you have only a few clients that need to connect to a VNet. Point-to-Site connections do not require a VPN device or a public-facing IP address.

A Site-to-Site VPN gateway connection is used to connect your on-premises network to an Azure virtual network over an IPsec/IKE (IKEv1 or IKEv2) VPN tunnel. This type of connection requires a VPN device located on-premises that has an externally facing public IP address assigned to it.

For both VPNs you can use all kinds of PCs/MACs/Linux machines to connect to Azure. When you connect to your VNet using Point-to-Site, you have a choice of which protocol to use. The protocol you use determines the authentication options that are available to you. You do not need to use Azure AD specifically, but you need one of the below authentication options. Here are the available authentication options for P2S VPN:

Configure a Point-to-Site VPN connection using Azure certificate authentication
Configure a Point-to-Site connection to a VNet using RADIUS authentication
Configure a Point-to-Site connection to a VNet using Azure AD authentication

Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions and we will be glad to assist you further. Thank you!

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Answer 2

Thanks for the response. I tried following step-by-step, but hit an error on this step:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/point-to-site-vpn-client-configuration-azure-cert

Install the configuration files
Select the VPN client configuration files that correspond to the architecture of the Windows computer. For a 64-bit processor architecture, choose the 'VpnClientSetupAmd64' installer package. For a 32-bit processor architecture, choose the 'VpnClientSetupX86' installer package.
Double-click the package to install it. If you see a SmartScreen popup, click More info, then Run anyway.

When I open the downloaded ZIP file, it only has .xml files, no installer. Not sure what to do next.

Answer 3

No I don't get that download. I only get a ZIP with XML files. I got there by: The Virtual network Gateway resource->Point-To-Site Configuration->Download VPN client.