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Note that PowerShell or the ability to add VPN profiles may have been disabled by Group Policy settings.

You don’t even need to be an administrative user to add it. Until Microsoft decides to fix the Settings app, you can still add a working IKEv2 VPN profile through PowerShell. Creating a working IKEv2 VPN profile with PowerShell The authentication information can’t be corrected from within the Settings app. Clicking Save a second time dismisses the dialog but without saving any authentication information or the account credentials. However, it won’t be saved when you click the Save button. You can fill in the authentication information in the Add VPN connection dialog for creating a new VPN profile. Windows 10 does support the use of EAP authentication, but the ability for creating a VPN profile with this authentication method from the Settings app hasn’t worked since at least Windows 10 version 1607 (“Anniversary Update.”) Having to click the Save button in the Add a VPN connection dialog a second time to close the dialog is a sure sign that things aren’t working as expected. The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP specifically EAP-MSCHAPv2) allows customers to authenticate with their account- or a device-specific username and password instead of certificates issued by the VPN provider. IKEv2 supports several forms of authentication without the need for the dubious practice of installing a root certificate provided by the VPN service provider. The protocol is an open standard and it’s supported natively in iOS, MacOS, and Windows, and has partial (non-EAP authentication only) support in Android. More and more general-purpose VPN service providers are adding IPsec/IKEv2 to the list of protocols they support.

Here is how you work the broken Settings app and setup a secure and working IKEv2 VPN profile. However, bugs in the Settings app in Windows 10 make it difficult to login to and access remote VPN services. There’s no need to install a third-party Virtual Private Network ( VPN) client in Windows 10 as the operating system already supports open standard VPN solutions like IKEv2.