Sometimes when I have logged onto our Windows 2003 Terminal Server there have been over a dozen idle sessions. Many of these sessions have only been idle for short periods of time, but often we have sessions that have been idle for many hours, and sometimes even days. Today I decided to limit the amount [...]

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Recently my Compaq Presario v4000 completely died. On boot it would simply give me one long beep, followed by two short beeps. This appeared to be a video card problem. In a desktop computer this would be an easy, and relatively cheap repair. One of the challenges with laptops is that in most laptops the [...]

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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 number of systems that we need to support, so some [...]

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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 from my desk: Ports Needed for PPTP VPN – TCP [...]

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We recently went through an upgrade from Goldmine 5.7 to Microsoft CRM 3.0. It was quite the process moving not only our systems and processes to the new system but also migrating the data from Goldmine to Microsoft CRM. We were lucky enough to have someone working with us, Jonathan Gill, who pretty stinking smart. [...]

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To Deliver BCC e-mails from a catch all account using Native POP3Beamer the first thing that we need to do is to determine the e-mail delivery method that your ISP uses for BCC e-mail. Open an undelivered e-mail in Outlook (or your favourite e-mail client like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, KMail, Mail, Enourage, etc.) and [...]

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