Windows RT and Cisco VPN connections

Real,

I have Windows RT  8.1 and I don't see anything in the VPN connection properties indicating "full" support for IPSec groupname+password authentication, which is essentially what most companies using Cisco VPN seem to utilize.  I could be wrong and I even hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so. 

This link is frequently referenced:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj900206.aspx

...but the only IPSec authentication supported is still through a certificate or pre-shared key.

Feel free to post a screenshot of the appropriate Win RT 8.1 dialog to prove me wrong.  Please prove me wrong.

Since you have Windows RT device, can you do all of us a favor: call Microsoft support, ask them what they got to say about VPN from various vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint etc.) and let us know what is their take?

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Toll free: (800) Microsoft or (800) 642-7676

Some related forums are:

• http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-networking/checkpoint-vpn-setup-with-winrt-81/c6430a55-f8bb-4c55-9f21-f68713322ad8
• http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w81previtpro/thread/25431ee7-4a28-49d0-8ed2-4e75fec5524f/#b630a977-b95b-4096-bf9f-21f7803bf5cf

Touche. 

I got the canned response from our IT Services group:

Windows 8 is not currently supported on the city network with Cisco Anyconnect at this time.

Gee, thanks.

Good, but when your enterprise requires a third party VPN client like Cisco, asking them to make an exception for the RT VPN client makes me wonder if I will hear them laughing from a mile away.

Try creating the VPN connection by bringing up the control panel and put VPN in the search window and following the prompts; you may need to go back and edit after it fails in the first run through.  I took a look at it, but don't have a VPN to test it on...

That's pretty much how I've been creating vpn connections.  The Advanced settings for IPsec brings up a L2TP dialog with two options, pre-shared key and "Use certificate for authentication". I'm looking for a place to specify group name and a password but it's not there. 

Regardless of testing, if you've seen this in the setup, then where?

IPad has this natively, I think Android also supports this natively with little to no input from Cisco.  If Win RT supported IPsec groupnames and passwords, this thread would have been over and answered a long time ago. 

Thank you,

Real,

I have Windows RT  8.1 and I don't see anything in the VPN connection properties indicating "full" support for IPSec groupname+password authentication, which is essentially what most companies using Cisco VPN seem to utilize.  I could be wrong and I even hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so. 

This link is frequently referenced:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj900206.aspx

...but the only IPSec authentication supported is still through a certificate.

Feel free to post a screenshot of the appropriate Win RT 8.1 dialog to prove me wrong.  Please prove me wrong.

Try creating the VPN connection by bringing up the control panel and put VPN in the search window and following the prompts; you may need to go back and edit after it fails in the first run through.  I took a look at it, but don't have a VPN to test it on...