IT Support insights

Insights and suggestions from a medium-sized company IT administrators viewpoint. Technical tips and philosophical ponderings. Main platforms: Windows and Linux desktops. Feel free to apply the tips to your own organization or suggest better ways to do things in the comments.

Packaging SSH Clients: PuttyTray redux and FileZilla —

Submitted by Joni Nevalainen — posted on 2011-08-25 17:02 — comments: 1

Secure SHell (SSH) is a popular low-bandwidth protocol to use remote devices via terminal sessions, tunnel connections and more. This post details one way to package open source windows clients for SSH and SFTP/FTP/FTPS (with UTF-8 support) to be distributed in a managed environment. Read more

Using Exchange 2007 calendar with Thunderbird plugin —

Submitted by Joni Nevalainen — posted on 2011-06-28 16:48 — comments: 0

If you have at least Thunderbird 3.0 and the possibility to install extensions, it's possible to use an Exchange 2007 or newer calendar within Thunderbird. The use includes making meetings and seeing other people's free/busy status when making reservations. The required plugin is here (requires lightning and minimum of Exchange 2007): https://addons.mozilla.org/en/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-microsoft-exchang/ Read more

Firefox and Thunderbird updates with user rights —

Submitted by Joni Nevalainen — posted on 2010-09-24 17:15 — comments: 0

As network-using software, the web browser Mozilla Firefox and email suite Mozilla Thunderbird are especially fit to update themselves and keep vulnerability access time to a minimum. Here's how to configure them for self-updating with user-level rights. Read more

General outlines, upcoming topics —

Submitted by Joni Nevalainen — posted on 2010-06-29 16:21 — comments: 0

Outline of the workstation environment at CSC and a list of upcoming blog topics. Read more