It seems that anything running in WinRT is not able to access anything over a VPN. Specifically, Remote Desktop, but in general it seems VPN resources are just not accessible from WinRT apps.

Is this a bug, or by design?

Hi,

What's the exact problem?

You can't connect from your WinRT client to a remote machine via RDP (through a VPN)?

Or a remote machine can't connect to your WinRT client via RDP (through a VPN)?

What kind of VPN are we talking? Cisco? Juniper? MS PPTP?

Cisco VPN, using the Shrewsoft VPN client - but others in my org have also tried the Cisco client. The Remote Desktop App in WinRT will immediately return saying the server did not respond, but running mstsc in the desktop works fine. This is connecting from my laptop at home to servers at work via VPN.

There was another post here regarding the issue:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/W8ITProPreRel/thread/ada4719a-23e8-44ed-926e-328ac44fcc57?prof=required

I'm just trying to determine if this is something that I should expect to be fixed at some point in the near future, whether it's more of a long term thing, or indeed if it will be fixed at all. 

Our Org is currently in the process of evaluating mobile platforms for future app development, and WinRT seemed appealing due to the ability to hit Win 8 mobile and desktop with one app, but lack of VPN support will likely make anything WinRT a non-starter for us.

Anyone?

Apologies that my reply doesn't probably help with your Cisco VPN related problem.

Just thought I'd share that I've implemented a number of WinRT apps on Windows 8/8.1 that talk to corporate back ends across Direct Access, purely in case that's an option for your organisation or it's of use to other developers browsing this thread. DirectAccess allows connectivity to organizational network resources without the need for traditional virtual private network (VPN) connections.

Would this be of interest though...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/windows.networking.vpn.aspx

• Edited by RD8388 18 hours 23 minutes ago

Apologies that my reply doesn't probably help with your Cisco VPN related problem.

Just thought I'd share that I've implemented a number of WinRT apps on Windows 8/8.1 that talk to corporate back ends across Direct Access, purely in case that's an option for your organisation or it's of use to other developers browsing this thread. DirectAccess allows connectivity to organizational network resources without the need for traditional virtual private network (VPN) connections.

Would this be of interest though...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/windows.networking.vpn.aspx

• Edited by RD8388 Monday, April 20, 2015 12:56 PM