Windows 8 and The Unsupported Cisco VPN Client

When you spend most of your time doing remote sessions into client environments using the Cisco VPN Client, I found it a bit troubling to find out that Cisco announced their VPN Client End of Life.  However, since I had the installation on a supported Windows 7 box, I was not too worried that Windows 8 would not be supported.  Fast forward to August 8, 2012: my laptop died, all I had was a Windows 8 tablet to use as my defunct work computer, and I was no longer able to get to my clients...
To resolve this issue:
1) Open up the Registry Editor:
\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpnva\DisplayName

2) Edit the DisplayName, and clean out all of the junk (including the semi-colon) before the adapter name, leaving just the display name.  For example:
"@oem10.inf,%vpnva_Desc%;Cisco AnyConnect VPN Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64"
becomes:
"Cisco AnyConnect VPN Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64"

Force .eml Files to Open in Outlook 2007

Background

Files being collected in SharePoint email enabled lists are being received as .eml files by default since SharePoint uses SMTP services for receiving email.  The problem is that people want to use Outlook, not Outlook Exprerss to view their emails, and .eml files are not native to Outlook 2007 or earlier.

Workaround

1)      Modify the client registry:

a.     Make a backup of the following eml-file registration:

                                                               i.       HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eml

b.      Install appropriate eml-Outlook2007-xxx.reg file by double clicking the file.

c.       Information taken from http://www.msoutlook.info/question/354

2)      Set the .eml file default to open in Outlook 2007

a.       Right click a .eml file

b.      Open With à Choose default program…

c.       Choose Outlook.exe

                                                               i.      C:\\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Outlook.exe

3)      Modify the client registry again:

a.     Make a backup of the following registration:

                                                               i.       HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME

b.      Modify “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\message/rfc822”
extension=".eml"
CLSID=""

c.       Information take from:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/d94c0d4e-0d32-4648-bdd6-dc3f28bb4797/