What is this Global Protect pop-up?

Global Protect is UMBC’s VPN, which facilitates remote access to campus network resources. Please see our wiki page on that for more information. The Global Protect client is installed on all of our Virtual Desktop stacks to streamline access to certain campus resources. 

If you do not need to access secure resources within the campus network, you probably do not need to connect to the VPN during your VDE session. The client may still pop up immediately after your desktop launches, but it may be closed and ignored if it is not needed.

To use Global Protect client you must first enter UMBC’s portal address, please see this page for instructions on how to do that (at step 10). The client will remember the portal address after you enter it the first time, however if your VDE user profile is reset for any reason it may need to be reentered.