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Anders Hellvig
Copper Contributor
Dec 14, 2017

How to connect Surface Hub to VPN?

Hi, we just installed a Surface Hub in the office to use for scrum meetings. The plan is to display the teams' scrum boards from TFS on the Surface to be able to work interactively together at the ...
Daniel Hudson's avatar
Daniel Hudson
Iron Contributor
Dec 14, 2017
Hi Anders

I'm not sure this can be done. I've not seen any VPN clients that run on Surface Hub as they are most likely unable to run in a UWP environment.

Thanks
Dan
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    Anders Hellvig
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 14, 2017

    Thanks for your quick response, Dan.

    Too bad, but hopefully this problem will pass in a month or two, when we have TFS servers on the same network as the rest of the environment.

     

    BR

    /Anders

    • Michael Tressler's avatar
      Michael Tressler
      Iron Contributor
      Dec 14, 2017

      Also note that you can connect a laptop to the Hub via HDMI/USB. You can then VPN in with the laptop and display/interact with TFS on the Hub.

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        Anders Hellvig
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 15, 2017

        Yes, thanks.

        This is a workaround that we have discussed, but as I understand it we will lose the Surface apps (like Whiteboard) when we use a laptop instead. Still the Surface will work as a touch screen input, and that's good. Do you know if that is correct?

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