{"id":5773,"date":"2016-11-23T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2016-11-23T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:11:22","slug":"vpn-service-changing-november-30-vpn-uiowa-edu-no-longer-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2016\/11\/23\/vpn-service-changing-november-30-vpn-uiowa-edu-no-longer-available\/","title":{"rendered":"VPN Service Changing November 30 | vpn.uiowa.edu no longer available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. the university VPN service will be changed. If you use the VPN website (<a href=\"https:\/\/vpn.uiowa.edu\/\">https:\/\/vpn.uiowa.edu\/<\/a>) as your VPN connection method, <strong>you need to download, install, and use the <a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/vpn\">Cisco AnyConnect client<\/a> instead because this site is being discontinued as a VPN connection method.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The website will be discontinued because:<\/p>\n<p>1. The overall practice of a web VPNs is no longer an industry best practice.<\/p>\n<p>2. Support for the web VPN functionality from the vendor is very limited as a result, and not being actively updated.<\/p>\n<p>3. The web VPN service has been responsible for confusion as to which option to use to access campus resources.<\/p>\n<p>Visit this site to find more information on<a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/support\/article\/1876\"> how to download, install, and connect to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact the ITS Help Desk:<\/p>\n<div>ITS Help Desk<\/div>\n<p>The University of Iowa<\/p>\n<p>2800 University Capitol Centre<\/p>\n<p>319-384-HELP (4357)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/helpdesk\">http:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/helpdesk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. the university VPN service will be changed. If you use the VPN website (https:\/\/vpn.uiowa.edu\/) as your VPN connection method, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}