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Post your comments for Windows Phone 7, Day 20: Where's the VPN? here

[AdasWeber0zg6]

Agreed, that's one of the items missing. I've heard that native VPN support is coming in the following update.

If you use SharePoint then it may be a good solution until either native or 3d party VPN is available.

http://www.microsoft...ace-mobile.aspx

[Griot28]

Is it that microsoft doesn't support vpn or is it that cisco hasn't made an app for the windows phone yet. I don't know much about what you need to make vpn work on a phone. But if all you need is an app for that. like you do on your iphone. You really can't credit apple for vpn nor can you discredit microsoft for it.

[anonymousr46j]

Perhaps you should start this article with an explanation to what VPN is. As a regular consumer, I'm sure we don't need it, but it would be nice to know what we were missing out on. I can gather that it's a form of transmitting data.

[capotini]

VPN is for someone how does not use microsoft tools basically they are good for other companies earn money even if in a unsecure way!

[LittleRhodies]

Sounds like your PC World techies are doing it wrong if you need a VPN to access a web-based CMS tool... Why wouldn't your normal PC World log in just give you access to the editing tools like 99% of the other CMS tools that are out there?

As Griot28 mentioned, VPN support is a matter of Cisco or other VPN vendor providing the equivalent app. So this is a Cisco issue, not a Mango issue. Besides, it is still pretty early in Mango's lifecycle. I'm sure Cisco will have something by the end of Q1 next year. Likely a new Metro app that will work on both Mango and Windows 8.

[tonybradley]

@Griot28 @LittleRhodies - Both. Cisco hasn't made a Windows Phone 7 app for AnyConnect VPN, but Microsoft hasn't yet built VPN support into the platform, or provided the necessary hooks or APIs that a third-party developer needs to develop a VPN app.

As for accessing the PCWorld CMS-- PCWorld is in San Francisco. I am a freelance writer based out of Houston. I am not *on* the PCWorld network so I have to connect to it first--via a secure VPN connection--before I can log in to the CMS tool.

Whether or not Cisco can develop an AnyConnect VPN app for "Mango" by Q1 2012 will depend on Microsoft.

[Griot28]

@tony
Ar you sure microsoft hasnt supplied the api for vpn support. im asking because i really don't know if they did or not. Did you read this somewhere. Have you researched what API's are available to developers. There are plenty of remote desktop apps in the market place not sure if they share the same API's as vpn as i am a novice in that area. I would just like to know how sure you are that its mfst fault.

[Griot28]

@Tony
Never mind i found the answer on microsofts site that there is no support for vpn yet.

[JonKaloz]

" many businesses don't have Exchange, or don't have RPC over HTTPS enabled" are you sure about this? http://email-museum....-software-cost/

Don't get me wronge mango is awesome and vpn support (app created by cisco for WP7) would be nice, but for 99.9% of consumers this means nothing.

[overdue]

LOL at Papaya

[MikePercival]

try the App "Remote Suite: Ultimate" it won't grant you VPN but if you have a home computer with internet and VPN access it will let you RDP to your desktop and you can connect that way through a home pc gateway as a work around. I do it all the time myself. Also gives you access to things like PowerShell and command prompt on the linked PC.

The Downside being it doesn't exist as its own instance so if the computer is in use, say gaming, you have to minimize the game and the person using it gets mad at you for causing them to wipe thier WoW Raid by mimizing a healer!

[elvisfan]

WP7 is a consumer product. Yet I have to use exchange to sync my Outlook contacts and calendar? That just doesn't make any sense. How many consumers have access to Exchange? I don't think Microsoft knows what it wants to do.

[KevinHorsley]

elvisfan, on 25 September 2011 - 03:17 PM, said:

WP7 is a consumer product. Yet I have to use exchange to sync my Outlook contacts and calendar? That just doesn't make any sense. How many consumers have access to Exchange? I don't think Microsoft knows what it wants to do.

I would say that the majority of consumers probably don't use Outlook and if you use Windows Live Mail then everything sychronises without even having to plug your phone into a computer.

[KaiserHarukari]

i have a few problems, when i lock my htc arrive, it doesn't shut off the extremely sensitive capacitive touch buttons, so it will actually turn it self back on once you lock it, if your finger is near the button. Secondly. there is no button sensitivity control. Its obviously way to high, i even accidentally back out of games because of them, Thats why physical buttons were made TO AVOID THAT. and also apps aren't even fully multitasking, they need to start from where i left off even if i hit the stupid button on the home screen, not from the stupid limited 5 multitasking window. which isnt really multitasking, its just a piece of crap, window switcher.

[KaiserHarukari]

I'm not really even liking mango so far, even the stupid copy and paste doesnt work properly. I copy a url from internet explorer. Go to the messaging app, and what!? My copy and paste is gone!

[RickHan]

Anyone who connects to the Internet via a Wi-Fi hotspot should be using VPN (phone/netbook/laptop). That will protect you from being eavesdropped or hijacked. There are providers for that type of service (just not for WP7 yet)
.

It's also the only secure way to connect to a private network over the Internet.
I used WM6.x to open a VPN connection to my private network in order to access my servers.

So WP7 is probably reasonably safe connecting to the Internet via a cell connection, but NOT safe via a public Wi-Fi connection.