Add-VPN Cmdlet
Parameters Output Objects Config Settings
The Add-VPN component can be used to create a new VPN connection on the system.
Syntax
Add-VPN [parameters]
Remarks
The user can specify a series of properties for adding the VPN, such as Name, Server, DNSServer, etc. The cmdlets support pipeline input for some of their parameters. Prebuilding an object and piping it to the cmdlet is very useful, but should be used with caution to prevent security conflicts. Steps have been taken to decrease the risk of a possibly accidental pipe to the cmdlet, for instance, the Credential parameter cannot be piped to the cmdlet and must be specified manually.
# create a new VPN connection
add-vpn -name "NewEntry" -server "vpn.contoso.com" -user "contoso\user"
Parameter List
The following is the full list of the parameters of the cmdlet with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.
LogFile | The location of a file to which debug information is written. |
Config | Specifies one or more configuration settings. |
DNSServer | The DNS server to use. |
IPAddress | The IP Address to assign. |
LogFile | The location of a file to which debug information is written. |
Name | The name of the VPN connection. |
Password | The password to use for authentication. |
Protocol | The protocol to use for the VPN connection. |
Server | The address of the Server. |
User | The username to use for authentication. |
WINSServer | The WINS server to use. |
Output Objects
The following is the full list of the output objects returned by the cmdlet with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.
VPNCreatedEntry | Represents a created VPN entry. |
Config Settings
The following is a list of config settings for the cmdlet with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.
IgnoreModemSpeaker | Whether the component will ignore the default modem speaker settings. |
IgnoreSoftwareCompression | Whether the component will ignore the default software compression settings. |
OverrideEntrySetting | Whether or not to use the component settings when dialing a phone book entry. |
PausedStates | Whether the component will accept paused states. |
PauseOnScript | Tells the component to display a logon terminal. |
SetModemSpeaker | Whether the component will use the modem speaker. |
SetSoftwareCompression | Whether the component will use software compression. |
UseCustomScripting | Tells the component to use custom script DLLs. |
UsePrefixSuffix | Whether or not to use the dialing prefix and suffix in the phone book. |
UseRemoteDefaultGateway | Whether or not the entry should use the default gateway on the remote network. |
VPNType | Sets the VPN Type when creating entries with NetDial. |
BuildInfo | Information about the product's build. |
CodePage | The system code page used for Unicode to Multibyte translations. |
LicenseInfo | Information about the current license. |
MaskSensitive | Whether sensitive data is masked in log messages. |
UseInternalSecurityAPI | Whether or not to use the system security libraries or an internal implementation. |
LogFile Parameter (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The location of a file to which debug information is written.
Syntax
Add-VPN -LogFile string
Remarks
When specified, the cmdlet will log debug information to the file. If the file exists, the information will be appended.Default Value
null
Config Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
Specifies one or more configuration settings.
Syntax
Add-VPN -Config string[]
Remarks
The Config parameter takes one or more name-value pairs that represent the name of the configuration setting and value, i.e.: -config "Name=Value"
Default Value
null
DNSServer Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The DNS server to use.
Syntax
Add-VPN -DNSServer string
Remarks
Specifies the DNS server to use when connected to the VPN.
Default Value
""
IPAddress Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The IP Address to assign.
Syntax
Add-VPN -IPAddress string
Remarks
Specifies the IP Address to assign to the local machine when connected to the VPN.
Default Value
""
LogFile Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The location of a file to which debug information is written.
Syntax
Add-VPN -LogFile string
Remarks
When specified, the cmdlet will log debug information to the file. If the file exists, the information will be appended.
Default Value
""
Name Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The name of the VPN connection.
Syntax
Add-VPN -Name string
Remarks
The friendly name of the VPN connection.
Default Value
""
Parameter Position
0
This is a required parameter.
Password Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The password to use for authentication.
Syntax
Add-VPN -Password string
Remarks
Every time User, or Password are set, the cmdlet will authenticate with the server. It is recommended that the Credential parameter is set instead of User/Password because of security reasons. If both Credential and this parameter is set, the Credential value is used.
Default Value
""
Protocol Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The protocol to use for the VPN connection.
Syntax
Add-VPN -Protocol string
Remarks
Specifies what protocol the VPN connection will use. Possible values are Default (Use default windows options), PPTP, L2TP and SSTP.
Default Value
0
Server Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The address of the Server.
Syntax
Add-VPN -Server string
Remarks
The cmdlet requires a server address to be provided. Either an IP address or the server host name can be provided.
Default Value
""
Parameter Position
0
This is a required parameter.
User Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The username to use for authentication.
Syntax
Add-VPN -User string
Remarks
Every time User and Password are set, the cmdlet will authenticate with the server. It is recommended that the Credential parameter is set instead of User/Password because of security reasons. If both Credential and this parameter is set, the Credential value is used.
Default Value
""
WINSServer Property (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The WINS server to use.
Syntax
Add-VPN -WINSServer string
Remarks
Specifies the WINS server to use when connected to the VPN.
Default Value
""
VPNCreatedEntry Output Object (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
Represents a created VPN entry.
Syntax
Object VPNCreatedEntry {string Entry;
string Server;
string DNSServer;
string WINSServer;
string IPAddress;
string Protocol;
}
Remarks
Fields contain information about the VPN created.
Config Settings (Add-VPN Cmdlet)
The cmdlet accepts one or more of the following configuration settings. Configuration settings are similar in functionality to properties, but they are rarely used. In order to avoid "polluting" the property namespace of the cmdlet, access to these internal properties is provided through the Config method.NetDial Config Settings
Setting this value to True will cause the cmdlet to ignore the modem speaker settings in the Remote Access System (RAS) phonebook, and it will use the setting specified by SetModemSpeaker. If it is False, the cmdlet uses the modem speaker setting that is in the RAS phonebook, and it then ignores the setting specified by the SetModemSpeaker.
If this is value is set to True, the cmdlet ignores the software compression setting that is in the RAS phonebook, and it uses the setting specified by SetSoftwareCompression. If it is set to False, the cmdlet uses the software compression setting that is in the RAS phonebook, and it then ignores the setting specified by SetSoftwareCompression.
If this is value is set to True, the cmdlet will use PhoneNumber, CallBackNumber, User, Password, and Domain as specified in the cmdlet, instead of the value specified in the preexisting phonebook entry.
If this is value is set to True, the cmdlet will accept paused states. Paused states include terminal mode, retry logon, change password, set callback number, and EAP authentication. If it is set to False, the cmdlet will report a fatal error if it enters a paused state.
This value is used internally by the system for Windows-95-style logon script execution. If this is value is set to True, a logon script will be displayed in a terminal window visible to the user. Applications should not set this value.
This configuration value determines whether or not the modem speaker will sound during a connection. If IgnoreModemSpeaker is False, the cmdlet ignores the value of SetModemSpeaker, and it sets the modem speaker based on the RAS phonebook setting or the default setting.
This configuration value determines whether or not the cmdlet uses software compression for the modem connection. If IgnoreSoftwareCompression is False, the cmdlet ignores the value of SetSoftwareCompression, and it sets the software compression state based on the RAS phonebook setting or the default setting.
This configuration setting specifies that the cmdlet should invoke a custom-scripting DLL (dynamic link library) after establishing the connection to the server. The cmdlet can invoke the DLL only if all of the following conditions are met: UseCustomScripting is specifically set to True. A custom-scripting DLL is correctly registered with the system. The CustomScript option is specified in the phonebook entry. Note: This option is not supported in Windows 2000 and NT.
If this is value is set to True, the cmdlet will use the prefix and suffix that are stored in the RAS phonebook. If it is False, the cmdlet will ignore the prefix and suffix.
UseRemoteDefaultGateway is used when creating a new entry. By default, this value is True, and it tells the entry created that it should forward data that cannot be sent on the local network to the dial-up connection.
Note: This option is valid only when a local area network connection and dial-up connection both exist simultaneously.
The supported values include the following:
0 | VPN_DEFAULT |
1 | VPN_PPTP |
2 | VPN_L2TP |
3 | VPN_SSTP |
Note: This configuration setting is available only in .NET.
Base Config Settings
When queried, this setting will return a string containing information about the product's build.
The default code page is Unicode UTF-8 (65001).
The following is a list of valid code page identifiers:
Identifier | Name |
037 | IBM EBCDIC - U.S./Canada |
437 | OEM - United States |
500 | IBM EBCDIC - International |
708 | Arabic - ASMO 708 |
709 | Arabic - ASMO 449+, BCON V4 |
710 | Arabic - Transparent Arabic |
720 | Arabic - Transparent ASMO |
737 | OEM - Greek (formerly 437G) |
775 | OEM - Baltic |
850 | OEM - Multilingual Latin I |
852 | OEM - Latin II |
855 | OEM - Cyrillic (primarily Russian) |
857 | OEM - Turkish |
858 | OEM - Multilingual Latin I + Euro symbol |
860 | OEM - Portuguese |
861 | OEM - Icelandic |
862 | OEM - Hebrew |
863 | OEM - Canadian-French |
864 | OEM - Arabic |
865 | OEM - Nordic |
866 | OEM - Russian |
869 | OEM - Modern Greek |
870 | IBM EBCDIC - Multilingual/ROECE (Latin-2) |
874 | ANSI/OEM - Thai (same as 28605, ISO 8859-15) |
875 | IBM EBCDIC - Modern Greek |
932 | ANSI/OEM - Japanese, Shift-JIS |
936 | ANSI/OEM - Simplified Chinese (PRC, Singapore) |
949 | ANSI/OEM - Korean (Unified Hangul Code) |
950 | ANSI/OEM - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan; Hong Kong SAR, PRC) |
1026 | IBM EBCDIC - Turkish (Latin-5) |
1047 | IBM EBCDIC - Latin 1/Open System |
1140 | IBM EBCDIC - U.S./Canada (037 + Euro symbol) |
1141 | IBM EBCDIC - Germany (20273 + Euro symbol) |
1142 | IBM EBCDIC - Denmark/Norway (20277 + Euro symbol) |
1143 | IBM EBCDIC - Finland/Sweden (20278 + Euro symbol) |
1144 | IBM EBCDIC - Italy (20280 + Euro symbol) |
1145 | IBM EBCDIC - Latin America/Spain (20284 + Euro symbol) |
1146 | IBM EBCDIC - United Kingdom (20285 + Euro symbol) |
1147 | IBM EBCDIC - France (20297 + Euro symbol) |
1148 | IBM EBCDIC - International (500 + Euro symbol) |
1149 | IBM EBCDIC - Icelandic (20871 + Euro symbol) |
1200 | Unicode UCS-2 Little-Endian (BMP of ISO 10646) |
1201 | Unicode UCS-2 Big-Endian |
1250 | ANSI - Central European |
1251 | ANSI - Cyrillic |
1252 | ANSI - Latin I |
1253 | ANSI - Greek |
1254 | ANSI - Turkish |
1255 | ANSI - Hebrew |
1256 | ANSI - Arabic |
1257 | ANSI - Baltic |
1258 | ANSI/OEM - Vietnamese |
1361 | Korean (Johab) |
10000 | MAC - Roman |
10001 | MAC - Japanese |
10002 | MAC - Traditional Chinese (Big5) |
10003 | MAC - Korean |
10004 | MAC - Arabic |
10005 | MAC - Hebrew |
10006 | MAC - Greek I |
10007 | MAC - Cyrillic |
10008 | MAC - Simplified Chinese (GB 2312) |
10010 | MAC - Romania |
10017 | MAC - Ukraine |
10021 | MAC - Thai |
10029 | MAC - Latin II |
10079 | MAC - Icelandic |
10081 | MAC - Turkish |
10082 | MAC - Croatia |
12000 | Unicode UCS-4 Little-Endian |
12001 | Unicode UCS-4 Big-Endian |
20000 | CNS - Taiwan |
20001 | TCA - Taiwan |
20002 | Eten - Taiwan |
20003 | IBM5550 - Taiwan |
20004 | TeleText - Taiwan |
20005 | Wang - Taiwan |
20105 | IA5 IRV International Alphabet No. 5 (7-bit) |
20106 | IA5 German (7-bit) |
20107 | IA5 Swedish (7-bit) |
20108 | IA5 Norwegian (7-bit) |
20127 | US-ASCII (7-bit) |
20261 | T.61 |
20269 | ISO 6937 Non-Spacing Accent |
20273 | IBM EBCDIC - Germany |
20277 | IBM EBCDIC - Denmark/Norway |
20278 | IBM EBCDIC - Finland/Sweden |
20280 | IBM EBCDIC - Italy |
20284 | IBM EBCDIC - Latin America/Spain |
20285 | IBM EBCDIC - United Kingdom |
20290 | IBM EBCDIC - Japanese Katakana Extended |
20297 | IBM EBCDIC - France |
20420 | IBM EBCDIC - Arabic |
20423 | IBM EBCDIC - Greek |
20424 | IBM EBCDIC - Hebrew |
20833 | IBM EBCDIC - Korean Extended |
20838 | IBM EBCDIC - Thai |
20866 | Russian - KOI8-R |
20871 | IBM EBCDIC - Icelandic |
20880 | IBM EBCDIC - Cyrillic (Russian) |
20905 | IBM EBCDIC - Turkish |
20924 | IBM EBCDIC - Latin-1/Open System (1047 + Euro symbol) |
20932 | JIS X 0208-1990 & 0121-1990 |
20936 | Simplified Chinese (GB2312) |
21025 | IBM EBCDIC - Cyrillic (Serbian, Bulgarian) |
21027 | Extended Alpha Lowercase |
21866 | Ukrainian (KOI8-U) |
28591 | ISO 8859-1 Latin I |
28592 | ISO 8859-2 Central Europe |
28593 | ISO 8859-3 Latin 3 |
28594 | ISO 8859-4 Baltic |
28595 | ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic |
28596 | ISO 8859-6 Arabic |
28597 | ISO 8859-7 Greek |
28598 | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew |
28599 | ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 |
28605 | ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 |
29001 | Europa 3 |
38598 | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew |
50220 | ISO 2022 Japanese with no halfwidth Katakana |
50221 | ISO 2022 Japanese with halfwidth Katakana |
50222 | ISO 2022 Japanese JIS X 0201-1989 |
50225 | ISO 2022 Korean |
50227 | ISO 2022 Simplified Chinese |
50229 | ISO 2022 Traditional Chinese |
50930 | Japanese (Katakana) Extended |
50931 | US/Canada and Japanese |
50933 | Korean Extended and Korean |
50935 | Simplified Chinese Extended and Simplified Chinese |
50936 | Simplified Chinese |
50937 | US/Canada and Traditional Chinese |
50939 | Japanese (Latin) Extended and Japanese |
51932 | EUC - Japanese |
51936 | EUC - Simplified Chinese |
51949 | EUC - Korean |
51950 | EUC - Traditional Chinese |
52936 | HZ-GB2312 Simplified Chinese |
54936 | Windows XP: GB18030 Simplified Chinese (4 Byte) |
57002 | ISCII Devanagari |
57003 | ISCII Bengali |
57004 | ISCII Tamil |
57005 | ISCII Telugu |
57006 | ISCII Assamese |
57007 | ISCII Oriya |
57008 | ISCII Kannada |
57009 | ISCII Malayalam |
57010 | ISCII Gujarati |
57011 | ISCII Punjabi |
65000 | Unicode UTF-7 |
65001 | Unicode UTF-8 |
Identifier | Name |
1 | ASCII |
2 | NEXTSTEP |
3 | JapaneseEUC |
4 | UTF8 |
5 | ISOLatin1 |
6 | Symbol |
7 | NonLossyASCII |
8 | ShiftJIS |
9 | ISOLatin2 |
10 | Unicode |
11 | WindowsCP1251 |
12 | WindowsCP1252 |
13 | WindowsCP1253 |
14 | WindowsCP1254 |
15 | WindowsCP1250 |
21 | ISO2022JP |
30 | MacOSRoman |
10 | UTF16String |
0x90000100 | UTF16BigEndian |
0x94000100 | UTF16LittleEndian |
0x8c000100 | UTF32String |
0x98000100 | UTF32BigEndian |
0x9c000100 | UTF32LittleEndian |
65536 | Proprietary |
When queried, this setting will return a string containing information about the license this instance of a cmdlet is using. It will return the following information:
- Product: The product the license is for.
- Product Key: The key the license was generated from.
- License Source: Where the license was found (e.g., RuntimeLicense, License File).
- License Type: The type of license installed (e.g., Royalty Free, Single Server).
- Last Valid Build: The last valid build number for which the license will work.
In certain circumstances it may be beneficial to mask sensitive data, like passwords, in log messages. Set this to true to mask sensitive data. The default is true.
This setting only works on these cmdlets: AS3Receiver, AS3Sender, Atom, Client(3DS), FTP, FTPServer, IMAP, OFTPClient, SSHClient, SCP, Server(3DS), Sexec, SFTP, SFTPServer, SSHServer, TCPClient, TCPServer.
When set to false, the cmdlet will use the system security libraries by default to perform cryptographic functions where applicable. In this case, calls to unmanaged code will be made. In certain environments, this is not desirable. To use a completely managed security implementation, set this setting to true.
Setting this configuration setting to true tells the cmdlet to use the internal implementation instead of using the system security libraries.
On Windows, this setting is set to false by default. On Linux/macOS, this setting is set to true by default.
If using the .NET Standard Library, this setting will be true on all platforms. The .NET Standard library does not support using the system security libraries.
Note: This setting is static. The value set is applicable to all cmdlets used in the application.
When this value is set, the product's system dynamic link library (DLL) is no longer required as a reference, as all unmanaged code is stored in that file.