Because file shares are not tied to an application, a typical per-app-VPN client cannot be used to access those. Typically, these are ‘legacy’ applications, sometimes an on-prem Exchange server, but often also file shares and network printers. I’ve seen numerous customers that want to embrace and migrate to Modern Management, but still have some on-premises resources they need to access. This new Tunnel 1.2 release introduces a new feature, that was not available with the UWP Tunnel client: Support for tunneling the SMB protocol for network drives and printers by flagging “SYSTEM” as an application. Workspace ONE Tunnel 1.2 for Windows 10 (Desktop).Next to this there are some version requirements: The setup of UAG is well documented, so I’m not going to cover that.Įnsure the Tunnel service is up and running and make sure the “Test Connection” on the UEM Console results in a green ‘Success’ message. In order to start using the Tunnel client, you first need to have a VPN server running, in this case the VMware Tunnel on Unified Access Gateway. This way you can test for yourself which Tunnel client works best for your use cases. This new Tunnel client is still a per-app VPN, since that concept works well with Modern Management and other platforms like IOS and Android.īecause the new per-app VPN Tunnel Windows Desktop Application (let’s just call it ‘Tunnel client’ from now on) is not fully documented yet I decided to create this blogpost the get you started with the setup. Combined with the limitations of the UWP framework made VMware decide to build a new VPN client from scratch. The UWP app relies on the native Windows 10 per-app VPN framework, which has some instabilities and bugs. The new client is a native win32 application that comes as an executable installer. The old client is a UWP app, coming from the Microsoft Store. The difference between the two is the packaging format. Workspace ONE Tunnel Windows Desktop Application.

Workspace ONE Tunnel Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app.There are now two VMware Tunnel Clients for Windows 10: I hear you say: “But a VMware Tunnel app for Windows 10 already exists? Why do we need another one?”

In this first blog I will describe how to start using the new VMware per-app VPN Tunnel client for Windows 10. I’m part of the same team as Brooks and might be returning for more content in the future (depending on how happy Brooks will be with this content :)).

Hi, my name is Pim van de Vis and I’m honored to be the first guest blogger here.

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