VPN Client Support

Anonymous
2012-10-30T23:35:39+00:00

The info page for the new Samsung RT tablet - the ATIV tab - says:

Enterprise Solutions (upon request): Exchange ActiveSync, On-Device Encryption, Cisco VPN (Virtual Private Network), Juniper Junos Pulse VPN, EAS

But the Junos Pulse client is not in the Windows Store - so either Samsung has some exclusive deal with Juniper, or this is a "coming soon" feature.

I'd like an answer. As much as I love the Surface hardware, if I cannot get the last piece of the puzzle I need for work, the Pulse client, and it is available on another vendor's tablet, I'll need to think about switching.

I would really like an answer from Microsoft on this one.

And to re-confirm - the ATIV is a Windows 8 RT tablet, NOT a Windows 8 Pro tablet.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-09T21:52:18+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-11T23:31:41+00:00

    You would think Cisco would have approached Ms to get this implemented since other mobile platforms support it. Seems sort of bogus, the api is there, just not the will apparently.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-12T01:36:40+00:00

    So I had a conversation with the Sonicwall SRA product team and they are waiting for Microsoft to release the API/SDK's that will allow them to directly modify network devices. So while they are currently forced to say to use pptp/l2tp/etc for now; they are pushing on Microsoft pretty hard to get access to those tools so they can release their SSL VPN (Netextender) for the Surface/RT. They've already done testing on the Acer tablets running Wintel Windows 8 and their tools work great.

    So while I have no "ins" with the Juniper or Cisco vpn folks, I gotta imagine they're all waiting for the same toolkits to become available.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-12T06:23:49+00:00

    Well, that's better than nothing I suppose. I hope they are trying their best to implement it soon.

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-11-13T03:16:56+00:00

    Greetings,

    At this time, please get in contact with your IT department to get the specific values needed to connect to your VPN. Please also note, if your VPN requires a client, it may not support Windows RT. Please get in contact with the client developer (Cisco, Citrix, etc) to see if they have the client available, or are working on creating one.

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