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I spent the day today trying to solve an interesting connectivity issue. I needed to connect to a Cisco VPN from a Win2K3 machine inside a VPC. Whew. I eventually got it by installing an old version of the Cisco VPN client, but I ended spending way too much time solving something that stupid.

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• Logging Application Block - This block provides extensions to the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework to help address common logging needs.