I enjoy the new VPN client, it’s small and fast, however I hated that you can’t save profiles in the drop down list like you could in the traditional VPN client.

• Anyconnect Was Unable To Establish
• Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client Not Connecting
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This has been bothering for a long time and kept finding conflicting information on if this was possible or not. Finally got it to work.

This is for version 3.1x and Windows 7 let me know if this works for your version and OS.

• Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution Guide Understanding How AnyConnect Secure Mobility Works 4 Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution Guide The Web Security appliance tracks the requests it receives and applies policies configured for remote users to traffic received from remote users. For information.
• Jul 31, 2015 4.Within the Products folder, locate and delete the registry key which contains product information for Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. Each registry key within Products is an alphanumeric string. Select the first key and look on the right side for ProductName REGSZ Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.
• Jul 22, 2020 1) Go to: C: ProgramData Cisco CiscoAnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Profile 2) Delete all the files in this folder 3) Go to: C: Users Username AppData Local Cisco Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4) Delete preferences.xml 5) Right click the Cisco icon in system tray and quit Cisco AnyConnect.
• Jul 11, 2020 Sometimes, the Any Connect client VPN fluctuates between different networks, so you have to select the option of connecting to the current network only. This might fix the issue for you. Here’s how to do that: Open the AnyConnect Client, and where you see the Network written, right click on it. Click on “Connect only to current Network.

• Create a preferences.xml file in C:ProgramDataCiscoCisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility ClientProfile
• Use this format

Anyconnect Was Unable To Establish

A simple solution for Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client issue is to click on the menu icon near Network and check 'Connect only to Current Network'. This will allow the connection to stay in the specified/desired Wifi and will stop from fluctuating to 'wired' connection.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<AnyConnectProfile xmlns='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/encoding/'>
<ServerList>
<HostEntry>
<User>dclouduser</User>
<SecondUser></SecondUser>
<ClientCertificateThumbprint></ClientCertificateThumbprint>
<ServerCertificateThumbprint></ServerCertificateThumbprint>
<HostName>dCloud</HostName>
<HostAddress>dcloud-rtp-anyconnect.cisco.com</HostAddress>
<Domain></Domain>
<Group>ssl_url</Group>
<ProxyHost></ProxyHost>
<ProxyPort></ProxyPort>
<SDITokenType>none</SDITokenType>
<ControllablePreferences>
<LocalLanAccess>true</LocalLanAccess></ControllablePreferences>
</HostEntry>

<HostEntry>
<User>dmacias</User>
<SecondUser></SecondUser>
<ClientCertificateThumbprint></ClientCertificateThumbprint>
<ServerCertificateThumbprint></ServerCertificateThumbprint>
<HostName>Speech-Soft</HostName>
<HostAddress>vpn.dmacias.com</HostAddress>
<Domain></Domain>
<Group>ssl_url</Group>
<ProxyHost></ProxyHost>
<ProxyPort></ProxyPort>
<SDITokenType>none</SDITokenType>
<ControllablePreferences>
<LocalLanAccess>true</LocalLanAccess></ControllablePreferences>
</HostEntry>
</ServerList>

</AnyConnectProfile>

• Save the file.
• Restart the connectivity client.
• Enjoy

Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client Not Connecting

~david

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EDIT 01/18/2017: This also works with Cisco AnyConnect 4.x!