Accessing Outlook address book

Today a collegue came into the office with the problem of being unable to access a contacts list once she was composing an email. The help for this in Microsoft Outlook is actually not too helpful, but the solution is actually simple. All you need…

Terminal Services Enhancements in Windows Server 2008

It looks like Windows Server 2008 will have some pretty hefty enhancements when it comes to terminal services and thin client computing. We currently use Windows Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003 at our work and it greatly helps in our administrative load and the…

Ports Needed for VPN Passthrough

I have had a note on my desk listing the ports needed for Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to work. I’ve used the VPN ports for opening up our firewall and for setting up our QOS (Quality of Service). Here is the list of VPN Ports…

Internet Explorer for Linux IE4Linux

What a terrible idea… and yet very useful. Let me explain. If you are a web developer you will have to test you web apps or sites on IE, specially because IE lives in it’s own little world but still a lot of people use…