Help/Support VPN on Demand / VPN Always On

[ChrisNI 0 9]

Hi All

 

Im hoping I can finally get a clear plan / solution to solving this problem.

 

In work ive been tasked to enabled VPN on demand for a client. Android was simple enough, however im having awful issues with iOS.

 

The VPN connection we have is a PPTP connection with username and password authentication.

 

The devices are all running iOS 8 or above

 

Can anyone give me any suggestions either an internal piece of code or a third party alternative to put in place that would allow the VPN connection to be enabled so the user doesn't have to keep authenticating it.

 

I know iOS have removed this functionality due to potential security risks and diminished battery life but im trying to exhaust all methods at present. Nothing ive found so far works with PPTP so moving to an IPSec connection might be the only way but even still most of the steps ive found require the device to be prepared in a supervised state which just isn't possible when we will have to roll this out over 100 devices.

 

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Chris

[Rook 559.2k iPad Pro (2nd gen) 17.4 Donor]

Hello there,

 

You have the username and password, so wouldn't it work if you just fill in the PPTP configuration inside Settings -> General -> VPN -> Add Configuration -> PPTP?

 

And then just turn on the VPN and it will automatically use the password and username you supplied.