How Stop Windows 10 from Auto Connecting to VPN

Question

_{Saturday, January 23, 2016 3:32 PM}

I am running Windows 10 Enterprise. VPN is setup and works great for connecting to server when not in the office. But it automatically connects and this causes problems with my home office printer (if I disconnect VPN, printer connects and prints, as soon as VPN auto reconnects, printing stops). Where do I tell VPN connection to only manually connect (settings > Network & Internet > VPN > select VPN profile and click connect)?

Thank you.

Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services -- A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP -- check out www.ThePowerPointBlog.com for tips, samples and more

All replies (5)

_{Sunday, January 24, 2016 6:33 AM ✅Answered}

When does it automatically connect?

This is quite a strange issue, since it's normally the case that someone actually wants that feature, and they have to go well out of their way to make it happen (e.g. Task Scheduler).

I'm not aware of any built-in setting, let alone one that is a default, that does what you're describing. I'll be interested to learn what's happening.

_{Monday, January 25, 2016 8:06 AM}

Hi Troy at TLC,

Are you using the built-in VPN? Is the VPN setup by yourself? How did you setup the VPN?

As rseiler pointed out, usually the built-in VPN need connect manually.
Please check the Event Viewer for more information to troubleshoot this issue.
Event Viewer\Windows Logs\Applications\Event ID 20221,20222, 20223, 20224

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_{Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:30 PM}

Sorry for delayed response, I was not aware that my question had been ported to this forum (which is great).

This is a Windows 10 standard VPN setup. Network & Internet > VPN > Add a VPN Connection > add a name, my server IP, credentials. The VPN connection works perfect, but it is driving me crazy by auto connecting constantly - which is a problem when I am at other corporate offices and need to access their network and the VPN connection prevents it.

Any suggestions would be great.

Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services -- A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP -- check out www.ThePowerPointBlog.com for tips, samples and more

_{Saturday, March 12, 2016 6:37 PM}

Still baffling. I haven't seen autoconnects (that you don't schedule with a very manual process) since the old days of dial-ups using PPP connections. Those would trigger when applications demanded Internet.

Does the Application log reveal anything interesting about the connection?

You should see 5 events for each connection. They'll contain verbiage like:

-The user PC\user has started dialing a VPN connection using a per-user connection profile named...

-The user PC\user is trying to establish a link to the Remote Access Server for the connection named...

_{Monday, February 13, 2017 9:20 PM}

Sorry for bringing up an old thread but it's the first one during every Google search I try on the issue.

Do you have a SBS Essentials server at your office? I would continuously turn off my VPN only to find it turned back on a few minutes later. It turned out that the Essentials Launchpad had "Keep me remotely connected" checked. I turned it off and bang, no more VPN issues.

Talk about maddening. Hopefully this helps others stumbling across this post if nothing else.

J