How to Disconnect From the VPN

Good afternoon everyone,

We’re finding that our VPN license limit is consistently hitting the ceiling.  A rule change to our VPN appliance will be enacted to alleviate the strain.  Starting now, IT has set the inactivity duration to 1-hour.  This means users will automatically be disconnected at that point.

Now you might find this a bit perplexing that users are A.) not saving their working files within an hour while in those files or B.) forgetting to logout in a timely manner to allow others to take their turn?  Actually, I’ve been guilty of both! Others are too 😊

Here’s the BEST PRACTICE for ensuring a successful disconnection from VPN:

1st step:

Second Step for is either:

Or this (depending upon the ‘mode’ you’re using)