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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 ...
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.
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?
- 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.
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...?
- Yup. This allows you to connect another dedicated computer to the Surface Hub to use the Surface Hub hardware on the dedicated computer (screen, touch screen, pens etc.). This allows you to 'replace' the built-in PC with one of your own running Windows 10 instead of Windows 10 Team. You would need the following drivers if you ever did that: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52210
Plugging in your PC for screen sharing is known as 'guest PC mode' and uses different inputs that the Surface Hub built-in PC can detect and display on screen through the Connect app (and through the Source picker).
