Greetings, and welcome to the first of my “Work Smarter, Not Harder” posts.

A bane in our side whenever we deploy a laptop is forgetting to set up the VPN connection – or the RAS phonebook mysteriously disappearing when we image a particular machine. This usually means trying to catch the poor bugger at a (usually remote) site to set it up manually. I, being a systems admin and therefore inherently lazy, beg to differ.

As it turns out, the RAS phonebook is stored in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk and is called “rasphone.pbk” – to deploy this VPN connection, simply create the folder and copy the already set up file in.

I hope this has proved to be helpful for you.