I upgraded my Mac at the weekend to Sierra, which went beautifully. Fast and no problems at all. Until this morning. This morning I went to connect to a customer VPN and it has disappeared from my list of VPNs on my Mac. On further checking I realised that customer ran their VPN as PPTP and PPTP is no longer supported as a VPN option on Mac OS.
I can use 3rd party VPN software and I guess removing it was Apple’s best option - leaving it in place but disabling it would have just led me into trying to make it work not realising it was no longer supported. Still a warning pre-install of “if you upgrade the following services and applications will no longer work” would have been nice if a bit much to ask for.
Consider this your warning*
*And yes I know PPTP isn’t secure and the customer shouldn’t be using it but that one isn’t my decision.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206844
Yes. That’s incredibly useful if they had actually shown it before upgrade or even had a link to it before upgrade. But they didn’t
Microsoft, Google, and Apple have all decided to become our nannies and make sure we only get options that are “age appropriate.