Hello Darrent, The GlobalProtect pre-logon connect method is a feature that enables GlobalProtect to authenticate the agent and establish the VPN tunnel to the GlobalProtect gateway using a pre-installed machine certificate before the user has logged in. Because the tunnel is already established, domain scripts can be executed when the user logs in instead of using cached credentials. With pre-logon, when an agent connects to the portal for the first time, the end user must authenticate (either via an authentication profile or a certificate profile configured to validate a client certificate containing a username). After authentication succeeds, the portal ushes the client configuration to the agent along with a cookie that will be used for portal authentication to receive a configuration refresh. Then, when a client system attempts to connect in pre-logon mode, it will use cookie to authenticate to the portal and receive its pre-logon client configuration. Then, it will connect to the gateway specified in the configuration and authenticate using its machine certificate (as specified in a certificate profile configured on the gateway) and establish the VPN tunnel. When the end user subsequently logs in to the machine, if single sign-on (SSO) is enabled in the user-logon client configuration, the username will immediately be reported to the gateway so that the tunnel can be renamed and user- and group-based policy can be enforced. FYI.. a reference DOC for more detail information: GlobalProtect Configuration Tech Note --- page no 50
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