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If your User VPN point-to-site (P2S) VPN gateway is configured to use OpenVPN and certificate authentication, you can connect to your virtual network using the Azure VPN Client. This article walks you through the steps to configure the Azure VPN Client and connect to your virtual network.
This article applies to Windows operating system clients. For more information about other VPN client configuration articles, see the following table:
Before beginning client configuration steps, verify that you're on the correct VPN client configuration article. The following table shows the configuration articles available for Virtual WAN point-to-site VPN clients. Steps differ, depending on the authentication type, tunnel type, and the client OS.
This article assumes that you've already performed the following prerequisites:
- You configured a virtual WAN according to the steps in the Create User VPN point-to-site connections article. Your User VPN configuration must use certificate authentication and the OpenVPN tunnel type.
- You generated and downloaded the VPN client configuration files. For steps to generate a VPN client profile configuration package, see Generate VPN client configuration files.
- You can either generate client certificates, or acquire the appropriate client certificates necessary for authentication.
The workflow for this article is as follows:
- Generate and install client certificates if you haven't already done so.
- View the VPN client profile configuration files contained in the VPN client profile configuration package that you generated.
- Configure the Azure VPN Client.
- Connect to Azure.
When your User VPN configuration settings are configured for certificate authentication, in order to authenticate, a client certificate must be installed on each connecting client computer. Later in this article, you specify the client certificates that you install in this section. The client certificate that you install must have been exported with its private key, and must contain all certificates in the certification path.
For steps to generate a client certificate, see Generate and export certificates.
For steps to install a client certificate see Install client certificates.
To view an installed client certificate, open Manage User Certificates. The client certificate is installed in Current User\Personal\Certificates.
The VPN client profile configuration package contains specific folders. The files within the folders contain the settings needed to configure the VPN client profile on the client computer. The files and the settings they contain are specific to the P2S VPN gateway and the type of authentication and tunnel your VPN gateway is configured to use.
Locate and unzip the VPN client profile configuration package you generated. For Certificate authentication and OpenVPN, you'll see the AzureVPN folder. In this folder, you'll see either the azurevpnconfig_cert.xml file or the azurevpnconfig.xml file, depending on whether your P2S configuration includes multiple authentication types. The .xml file contains the settings you use to configure the VPN client profile.
If you don't see either file, or you don't have an AzureVPN folder, verify that your VPN gateway is configured to use the OpenVPN tunnel type and that certificate authentication is selected.
To modify additional P2S User VPN connection settings, see Tutorial: Create a P2S User VPN connection.