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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 ...

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.

/Anders

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.

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?
- Daniel Hudson
  Iron Contributor
  Dec 15, 2017
  When you connect a device to the Surface Hub, it displays in the connect app. You can run this full screen, but you can also run it side-by-side with a second app. So there's no reason why you couldn't run the Whiteboard next to your plugged in laptop.
  - Anders Hellvig
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 15, 2017
    Aha, didn't know that.
    
    I read about the "Replacement PC"-mode, where it seem like the Surface internal computer is disabled. I guess that this way of connecting is something different then...?