[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[Jules Field]

PPTP has been completely removed from iOS 10 and macOS 10.12 Sierra.

To replace it, there are 2 alternatives available to you:

1. Go to http*s*://globalprotect.soton.ac.uk, login with your University 
credentials and download, install and run the app you can get there. You 
need to give it "globalprotect.soton.ac.uk" as the server name, and your 
University credentials.
(If you decide to remove it, run the installer again and just tick the 
"Uninstall" option.)

OR

2. Create a new VPN connection yourself. The settings are:
     Type: "IPSec" or "Cisco IPSec" (on iOS or macOS respectively)
     Hostname: globalprotect.soton.ac.uk
     Username and password: your University credentials (not your ECS ones)
     Secret: soton
     Group: soton

Users who are members of ECS will get a service equivalent to using the 
main ECS VPN service.
Users who are not members of ECS will get a service equivalent to using 
the iSolutions VPN service.

(For some reason I haven't yet fixed, option 2 won't pass data from VPN 
connections initiated *within* the ECS wired network. But that's a 
pretty pointless thing to do anyway, as you are already inside the ECS 
network to start with. It works fine from Eduroam or anywhere else.)

Cheers,
Jules.


On 21/09/2016 09:17, m.c. schraefel wrote:
> HI so - there’s a doc here about VPN not working.
>
> not a problem with staffvpn.ecs - which is great
>
> any reason not to keep using this trusty resource?
> (so nice not to have to use an app - just the drop down configuration)
>
> or has pptp been way deprecated or?
> mc
>
>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 09:13, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> iSolutions have some notes for university OSX users considering upgrading to Sierra.
>>
>> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/service-status/index.page
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>
>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>
>

Jules

-- 
Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
email+iMessage: Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Twitter: @JulesFM

Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

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  look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.' - Charles M Schulz

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