sonicwall netextender download windows 8

Windows Support on Twitter, Dell's SonicWall Tech Support and my company's IT support that I no longer need a stand-alone VPN client because the Sonicwall NetExtender client was now embedded into the OS as part of the preconfigured I recently updated my PC to 8.1 Release Edition and have been told by This disabled the Netextender client and was a known issue. I then updated my PC to 8.1 Preview edition. I installed the stand-alone Sonicwall Netextender VPN client and everything worked perfectly. I wanted to connect to my work network through VPN. When I purchased my desktop, it originally came with Windows 8 installed as an OEM license.

OS Environment - Windows 8.1 (NOT pro or enterprise).

If you have issues, please create a support ticket and include what specific issues you have.I have spent the better part of 3 hours talking to various support personnel Microsoft - none of whom seem to be able to answer my question without wanting to 'set up an appointment and schedule a paid support call' which I find silly for such.

You can now access the office resources as needed/instructed.

If the connection was successful, you will be notified that you are successfully connected.

That code expires within less than 1 minute. If you see that popup asking you for the One Time Password- make sure to enter it ASAP.

You might need to check your Email account for a one-time password that the system Emailed you.

If you don’t know this information, please contact us or reach out to your office manager/in-house IT engineer. You’ll be asked for your SERVER, USERNAME, PASSWORD and DOMAIN.After the computer rebooted, you’ll find the new SonicWall NetExtender icon on your computer’s desktop.Do not try to run the program before you reboot your computer! Reboot the computer at the end of the installation.

Accept all the default values and all the positive answers (I agree, Yes, Accept, Continue…).

Please locate that downloaded file and run it.

The latest version of this program will be downloaded to your computer.

Go to this website:, and download the NetExtender for Windows:.

We found that if you reboot BEFORE and also AFTER the installation of this program- there are less chances of issues/failures.

Some variations of this SonicWALL VPN software might be named “SonicWALL Global VPN connection” or “Dell SonicWALL NetExtender” etc.

You can go to your START menu, and search for “Add or Remove programs” to see the list of installed/existing programs.

Make sure you remove any existing “SonicWALL VPN” software from your computer, before proceeding.

Sonicwall netextender download windows 8