Accept incoming L2TP connections on Windows 7

Windows 2003 can be configured as a VPN server that uses L2TP with a preshared key.
Windows 7 can be configured to accept incoming VPN connections, presumably using PPTP.

Is there a way to configure Windows 7 to accept incoming L2TP connections? The configuration settings for incoming connections is extremely sparse; I don't see any place to enter a preshared key or specify the protocol to use. Perhaps it is beyond the capabilities of Win 7, but I hold out hope that I'm overlooking some Group Policy settings or registry edits that allow it.

Solution 1:

It seems like this is possible after all.

See this article : How to Set up an incoming VPN on Windows 7.

There is also a youtube video tutorial : How To Setup VPN on Windows 7 as Home Solution.

Setting up an L2TP/SSL server on Windows 7 is not possible without third-party software.
The best known one is the open source OpenVPN project, where you should look at Access Server.
However, under Windows it is only available as a Virtual Appliance VHD, to be used with Virtual PC.