This blog post is the last of this series and which will demonstrate how to configure a Point-to-Site VPN step-by-step. In my first blog post, I demonstrated how to configure a virtual network and a dynamic routing gateway. This was followed by another post about how to deal with the certificate. Today we will learn how to configure the VPN client.
CONFIGURE THE VPN CLIENT
1. In the Management Portal, navigate to virtual network page; in the “quick glance” you have the links to download the VPN package.
Choose the one appropriate to your architecture (x86 or x64).
2. After successfully download, copy the file to your servers and execute the setup.
3. Click Yes when it asks if you want to install the VP and let it run.
4. After successful installation, it will be visible in your network connections.
5. In Windows 2012 you can click in the network icon, in the notification area icons (close to the clock), and it will show the right-side bar with all the network connections. You can connect from there.
The other option is right-click the connection in the “Network Connections” window (previous step) and click “Connect / Disconnect”.
6. A window will be shown, click Connect.
7. Now check the box near to “Do not show this message again for this Connection” and click on “Continue”.
If everything is ok, the connection will succeed.
8. To confirm that you are connected, execute the command “ipconfig /all” in the command line, and you should see and entry for the VPN with an IP assigned.
9. After a while, you will be also able to see the connection in you vNet dashboard. As you can see in the image you have data in/out in the vNet.
After this last part, you are done with the point-to-site VPN configuration. You can test the connectivity by executing the “ping” command and also using the “telnet” client to test if some specific port is opened and reachable.
The point-to-site VPN is recommended if you want connect users/devices to your Azure infrastructure, for few different reasons. If you need to connect the entire or part of your on-premises infrastructure, the way to go is configure a Site-to-Site VPN. Stay tuned for a blog post on how it works.
Thank you for reading!
2 Comments. Leave new
I believe you need to add the certificate to your store for this to work.
Hi,
Have you tried to figure out after a P2T VPN is stablished successfully to a single VNet, how to access other VNets?, including the ones linked via S2S VPN?
THank you