Identify your Surface Dock and features
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Surface Dock and Docking station greatly expand your Surface device's capabilities. By connecting keyboards, mice, webcams, and external monitors, you can turn your Surface into a multifunctional workstation.

If you're not sure which Surface Dock or Surface Docking station you have for your Surface, use this page to help you identify it.

Surface Thunderbolt™ 4 Dock

Elevate your workspace with Surface Thunderbolt™ 4 Dock, delivering ultra-high speed data transfer. Eight versatile connections power your webcam, phone, and other accessories while connecting up to two 4K monitors.

If this is the dock you are using, please view Use Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock.

Shows the two ports on the front of the Surface Thunderbolt 4 dock (USB-A and USB-C).

Shows the back and side of the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock, with its ports.

Surface Dock 2

Bring more power to your laptop. Surface Dock 2 transforms your Surface into a desktop PC with a 199W power supply to charge most Surface devices, plus USB-C ports that support dual 4K monitors at 60Hz. Simply plug in the Surface Connect cable to charge your device and access external monitors, a keyboard, mouse, and more.

If this is the dock you are using, please view Use Surface Dock 2

Surface Dock 2 with 2 USB-C ports

Shows Surface Dock 2 with security lock, power, ethernet, audio, and USB ports​​​​​​​

Surface Dock

Turn your ultraportable Surface into a desktop PC and boost your productivity with Surface Dock.

If this is the dock you are using, please view Use Surface Dock

Shows front of Surface Dock with 2 USB ports​​​​​​​

Shows the side and back of Surface Dock with security port, power, ethernet, audio, mini DisplayPorts, and USB​​​​​​​

Docking station for Surface Pro 3

If this is the dock you are using, please view Use Surface docking stations for Surface Pro 3 and earlier models.

Note: This docking station is only compatible with Surface Pro 3.

Shows the Surface Pro 3 dock with callouts for the ports and features.

Back and sides of Docking station for Surface Pro 3—ports and features

1. Security lock slot

2. Charging port

3. Mini DisplayPort

4. USB 2.0

5. USB 3.0

6. Gigabit Ethernet

7. Audio

8. USB 3.0

Note: The Mini DisplayPort on your Surface 3 is available for use when it's in the docking station.

Docking station for Surface 3

If this is the dock you are using, please view Use Surface docking stations for Surface Pro 3 and earlier models.

Note: This docking station is only compatible with Surface 3.

Shows the Surface 3 dock with callouts for the ports and features.

Back and sides of Docking station for Surface 3—ports and features

1. USB 3.0

2. Audio

3. USB 2.0

4. Gigabit Ethernet

5. Mini DisplayPort

6. Charging port

7. Security lock slot

Docking station for Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 2

If this is the dock you are using, please view Use Surface docking stations for Surface Pro 3 and earlier models.

Note: This docking station is only compatible with Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 2.

Shows the Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 2 dock with callouts for the ports and features.

Back and sides of Docking station for Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 2—ports and features

1. Charging port

2. Mini DisplayPort

3. USB 2.0

4. Audio

5. Ethernet

6. USB 3.0

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