July Fifteen 09

All about the first day, and as much information as I could muster up about what this blog is actually for.

Can’t access remote desktop via SSh remote port: Use a Windows 98 VM

Often times, you may be running MyEnTunnel on your work computer with port 3389 (RDP) forwarded to a home computer on another port, say (4389). If you’ve tried this you know it doesn’t work. Maybe you don’t have another machine to use to run MyEntunnel, or you don’t have a Nix machine… Not a problem.

Migrate your old mail accounts to Gmail via IMAP using Outlook 2003

Gmail now supports the IMAP protocol which means you can take all of your old mail from Comcast, SBC, Hotmail Or whatever other providers you use and conveniently aggregate them all in one location: Gmail. This is very cool, because Gmail’s servers are redundant, secure, provide ample space and are indexed very nicely which makes it easy to find all of your old messages.

Adding conference rooms to Exchange Server

I had someone ask me how to set up Conference Rooms in exchange server in order to book them in Outlook 2003. The process is actually relatively simple.