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Yep. A portable hotspot is your best bet. There were some threads about one particular 3G dongle having signed drivers that would work with the Surface, but tbh a hotspot is going to be easier (and supported). They'll be a Surface out with LTE built-in soon.

I'm still intrigued as to how a "touch" version of Office would work. Unless there's a very stripped down set of menus then getting to anything complex might be a chore. If it is a lightweight version of Office, I'll stick with my Surface/keyboard/mouse combo for anything actually productivity...

It'll be slow. If you can split the VM into an OS vdi and one or more data vdi's, stick the OS one on the SSD, the others on the SD and performance/usability might be bearable. I'd not worry about trying to minimise read/writes to the SD.

I only use Sky/OneDrive for files and OneNote Notebooks (<20GB in total). All media is on an SD card. So I have the "Access all files offline" setting to On. Until I reboot when it resets itself to Off. And that's on several different Windows 8.1 devices. Something's very broken in...

Ah. There it is. Now if they could only iron out the cloud side of it so it can be used/sync like it used to.

That's a good point. I've not got Outlook 2010 so can't recall all the connectivity options it supports. In which case Lorna could may have to set her PC Outlook to connect using IMAP. The section on IMAP at Outlook.com Mail Server Settings should help. IMAP is still smarter than POP/SMTP.

Problem is the Outlook on your PC. POP/SMTP connection has no smarts - it doesn't know/care if you read the mail/delete it on another device. I would do the following: - Make sure you've a good backup of your email data (including exporting Calendars, Contacts etc to a PST file - just in case...

I don't think weight would be the issue.

Wait. You let your ladies loose on your Surface?!? Shame on you.

Any error message?

There might be something out there. But if you arrange display properties something like below, would that help minimize the chance of accidental creep from one screen to the other?

Are you using the Facebook app or using Internet Explorer to browse to the Facebook website?

Need some more details... error message? What kind of account (Exchange/IMAP etc)? Who are the accounts with?

Actually, before thinking about power, if it's displaying just a black screen have you configured the display settings to mirror/extend the display to the additional monitor?

My first thoughts too. The power drain is too much. That monitor claims to operate at <8 watts when in use. The specs for USB3 seem to be up to 0.9 amps current draw. And a voltage of 5. So (and someone may well correct me on this) the USB max power available is 0.9 * 5 = 4.5 watts. So if the...

I've got the wedge keyboard and mouse sitting on one side of my desk for my Surface. Then a VGA adaptor so I can switch one of my other monitors to extend the Surface Desktop when I need it. The wedge keyboard cover is designed as a Surface stand... Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard | Microsoft...

I'll check mine later, but I'd have thought you could change it in the mouse settings section of Control Panel from the Desktop, rather than the app.

I reckon you'd have to use Outlook as a workaround.

A DMZ is typically where you'd put a webserver so that it can be accessed from outside your network, without giving it (and its visitors) access to your internal network. Might just have to put it down to "one of those things". Or a polar vortex.

That sounds a puzzle! Putting a device in a DMZ sounds odd. Out of curiosity, why was that?