BSSID in Windows XP using Powershell

Note: If you don't know what BSSID is, you mostly need to know that it's the MAC address of the Access Point you're connected to.

Have you ever tried to get the BSSID in Windows XP? It's kind of difficult to do it, specially when all the Google results end up showing things with netsh wlan command. netsh wlan is part of a newer version than the one in Windows XP. It comes in Windows Vista and above. However that's the fastest way to find out which BSSID you're using.

Avoiding your proxy at work

I bet you wanted to do this since you got hired and saw that there are filters for certain webpages. So here's the thing, you can create a tunnel between your worstation and a host at home using SSH via SSL port.

Here's a classic scenario:

Basically here you have your workstation, and in order to get to the internet, you need to go through an ISA server working as a proxy server filtering your content. Here's where your facebook, youtube, IRC, and so on, gets filtered.

Terminal Services Gateway

We were looking for some solution where we can centralize every RDP session coming from outside (especially for vendor access), and we ended up with 2 choices: Citrix or Terminal Services Gateway (now known as Remote Desktop Services Gateway). Considering we already have licenses for Terminal Services, we are taking the latter. If you don't know what it is, here's a brief explanation.

Windows Server Terminal Services uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to enable the connections from clients to the terminal server, which uses port 3389. If you need to access a terminal server from outside the internal network (intranet), you have two options for doing so. You can either enable port 3389 through your firewall to specific servers (which isn’t a good idea), or, more commonly, clients connect to the corporate network via VPN, which can then enable the RDP session in a secure manner.