[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[m.c. schraefel]

good to know.
Thanks v.much. appreciate being able to run from within the drop down’s on either OS…
mc
> On 21 Sep 2016, at 09:36, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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 https://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> <mailto: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 <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/service-status/index.page>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg <http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg>
>>> 
>>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/ <http://data.southampton.ac.uk/>
>>> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/ <http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/>
>>> 
>> 
> 
> Jules
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 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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