ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
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Remote Desktop

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Here is another Post that must have tasted good because, WordPress ate it when I converted. It should still be useful to someone out there…

When Windows XP came out, we were introduced to the new and improved remote desktop. It’s Great! Believe me, I use it regularly.

Well, when you use it to connect to XP workstations you get to connect to the console session. However, when trying to connect to a Server 2000 or Server 2003 machine you get connected to a “Remote Desktop” not ever to the console. Well, this really kind of bugged me but not enough to worry about. Until now. Now, I use a couple of programs that run as a service but only interact with the console session. So, when you log in remotely it trys to start another instance of the program causing errors. Well, I finally got off my butt and found a way to connect to the console session using Remote Desktop.

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Outlook PST files

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I’ve had to deal with outlook “PST” files lately and thought I’d post some general info about them. For those of you who use Microsoft Outlook you might want to know where your data is actually saved. Outlook saves all of your data in a file called “Outlook.pst”.

The “pst” extension stands for “Personal STore” and this is a fairly complex database that contains all of your: Mail, contacts, calendar information, notes, and anything you save within outlook.
Should you ever need to transfer you Outlook contents to another computer you just need to copy this file to a disk/CD/DVD. This file is generally found in

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