Archives - October, 2009



The question of calendar syncing has been quite a big one on the forums on the net. I was also one that has a problem figuring out how to sync all my calendars, and I kept doing more research and experimentation until I finally found perfect solution that seems to work across the board. That is what you’re here for right?

Alright, in this blog entry, I’m going to try to give as much detail as I can based on the scenario that I have in my calendars, as I think my situation covers in part or in all, most other people’s situations. From these different steps, you can take any part you want, and apply it to your particular setup to get what you need.

So let’s get started. I’m going to describe everything based on the setup that I currently have running. This involves: iCal, gCAL, Outlook, and 3rd party calendars, including shared Google calendars, and Tungle meeting organizer.  Now before we continue, let me put in a warning before starting:

The process you’re about to see requires performing major surgery on your calendars. There is no scripting, or crazy techy stuff involved, but you have to be methodical to make this whole thing work.

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I’m in the process of trying to get rid of any thick clients that I currently work on to convert solely to Virtual Machines, and clear out my desk space.
Well, I thought the best way to do this was to move my Precision 690 to the lab, install ESXi on it, and have a my VM on there.

As I tried to add the VM that resides on this ESXi server (which is not part of vCenter), I could not add it as an individual desktop.  I then remembered that I needed to have the View agent installed for this to work. After installing the View Agent, I was hopeful, but alas, the VM still didn’t show up. On Step 3 of adding the machine, it would supposedly give a list of available VMs to add and a find option, but nothing could be found. ..Continue reading..