accessing Outlook away from home

[J_Dubb]

What is the easiest way to access my Outlook mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, et cetera away from home, via the internet. I know of Windows Remote Access, but I'd rather not open up my whole computer.

Currently what I've been doing is using Google. I use my Personalized Google as my homepage (), and Google Calendar and Gmail contacts, to both of which I import my Calendar events via .CSV file when I'm at home. I can export my Google calendars and contacts then import to Outlook as well, but this means that I have to import and export several times.

What I'm really looking for is the ability to either:

a: synch Google with Outlook and vice versa

b: have another way to access Outlook via the web

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Also, I am using Beta 2 of Office 12 2007.

[JuMz]

So any type of Remote Access is completely out of the question? I use remote desktop but not in the conventional way...

I have OpenSSH for Windows installed on my box, and hence, only the SSH port is open. So what I do is I ssh into my box, and then Portforward a localport (Say port 3000 on my laptop) to my ssh box port 3389 (the Remote Desktop Port), then run remote desktop using "localhost:3000" as the server.

Essentially, all the remote desktop packets are "tunneled" through the AES encrypted SSH tunnel...

Edited May 24, 2006 by JuMz

[J_Dubb]

So any type of Remote Access is completely out of the question? I use remote desktop but not in the conventional way...

I have OpenSSH for Windows installed on my box, and hence, only the SSH port is open. So what I do is I ssh into my box, and then Portforward a localport (Say port 3000 on my laptop) to my ssh box port 3389 (the Remote Desktop Port), then run remote desktop using "localhost:3000" as the server.

Essentially, all the remote desktop packets are "tunneled" through the AES encrypted SSH tunnel...

sorry, I know only theoretical ideas behind encryption, not details. acronyms aren't going to cut it. could you please restate that in a little bit more basic terms (not complete layman's terms, but a bit more simlified)