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Cisco AnyConnect and Hyper-V – Connect to a VPN from Inside a VM Session

Clients and VMs and VPNs, Oh My!

As regular readers of this blog may be aware, I recently hung up my technical evangelist hat, and made the jump back into full-time consulting.

Consistent with best practices, I decided that when working with a new client, the best course of action would be to set up a new virtual machine to keep all of the development environment, tools, and files isolated from anything on my host machine, which helps minimize the risk that installing the latest bleeding-edge tools (which are good to have to stay ahead of the learning curve) don’t endanger the work I’m doing for the client.

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Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 9

Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:

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Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 7

Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:

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Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 6

Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:

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Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 5

Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:

Developer

Great post from Pete Brown on the potential of the Hub control to make for a more usable UX for music and synth apps.

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Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 4

Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:

Developer

Lots of activity from my developer-focused peers…read the whole list…you won’t regret it.

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East Region Roundup

Wanted to share a few posts from my fellow Microsoft Technical evangelists here in East Region, hopefully you’ll find them as interesting and useful as I did:

New Digs, Windows Azure and Orchard – Michael Cummings talks about the reasons he chose Windows Azure and Orchard CMS for his new blog. Given that I run my blog on Orchard (and just moved to Windows Azure), I thought it was interesting to compare his reasons to mine. Also interested to hear more about his idea for a Bing search module.
From Steve Maier comes The Puppy Eat, a somewhat sick and twisted casual game for Windows 8, but quite well-executed, and fun, if you don’t take it too seriously.
Jim O’Neil has a good post on using Fiddler to test an APIMASH app. Of course, the technique can be used on any Windows Store app you happen to be developing.
Jesse Freeman is starting a new event series for game developers looking for focused coding time, called Game Developer Studio Time. If you’re in the NYC area, you should definitely check it out!
Maria Naggaga reminds us that Unity is offering $100,000 in prizes, including a $30,000 grand prize, for the best apps and games built with Unity 3d, and as a bonus, she’s got a dancing elephant!
Planning to attend Visual Studio LIVE! this fall in Orlando? Be sure to catch Dave Isbitski’s talks on Windows Phone and Windows Azure.
Want to get a better handle on building a site or app on Windows Azure, and keep costs in line? Check out part 2 of Brian Hitney‘s “Building for Cost” series. Part 1 is available here.
Joe Healy, aka DevFish, is looking for Florida devs who’ve published Windows Phone or Windows Store apps. Hit him up on his MSDN blog for more.
Want to learn how to build games with Construct 2? Diego Lizarazo Rivera has a 5-part series that shows you how (link is to part 5, which has links to the rest).
If you’re looking for info on Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, or SharePoint, or if you’re an IT pro focused group in Mid-Atlantic looking for a good speaker, you should check out my IT evangelist peer Yung Chou.
Do you already know VMWare, but want to learn more about using Hyper-V? Tommy Patterson shares a webcast you might be interested in.

That’s all I’ve got for today…I’ll post more links from my peers in future roundups. Let me know if you find these valuable!