How to Use Outlook 2013 Client to Remotely Start Applications on Windows
These days almost every
second person has a device which is connected to the internet. Smartphone,
Tablets and Phablets launching every day, with the latest Smartphone apps you
can always connect to your home machine. But chances are sometimes device you
are carrying is not compatible or smart enough to connect your Windows PC and
also it can't handle remote access applications.
Ever stuck in a situation
when your outside and you forget to shut down your pc, mostly people like me
found themselves in such kind of troubles.
These days mostly people
carry Smartphone with themselves, which can pretty much connect to your home
machine. But there are chances you might not be having a Smartphone or it's not
compatible to run any smart app which can remotely connect to your pc.
But guess what we have
solution for every tech related problem; we will teach you how to use any device
to remotely connect to your Windows PC/Laptop with just an e-mail account and
an internet connection.
Getting Started: We need a Windows PC connected with internet
(always up) running Microsoft Outlook configured with an email account.
We will complete our task
by using "Rules for incoming emails." Worry not we are here to help
you.
Tip: Gmail account users can simply use sRemote, which does the same thing
for us.
We will start with
"how to create e-mail rules for incoming messages in Microsoft Outlook,"
for this we will be using latest 2013 rules as Microsoft has recently launched
Windows 8.
Step 1: Go to Home tab and browse to Rules >> Manage Rules & Alerts.
Step 2: Click Manage Rules & Alerts window, a window will pop displaying
the current rules if you have any. Select New Rule button.
Step 3: Rules Wizard window will pop up. From the "Start from new
rule" option, select Apply rule on massages I receive and click Next.
Step 4: In the next window of Rules Wizard, we will have to set condition. Select
two options: a.) from people or public group b.) With specific words in the
subject.
You can also select other
conditions but following two are important and must.
Step 5: In the very same window, you will notice Step: 2 saying "Edit the
rule description." Click on the link "people or public group"
and "specific words".
When you click
"specific words" you can add words like shutdown, we will use
"start notepad" as specific words, after setting the parameters,
click Next.
Step 6: This is the most vital step in all, where we set an action to perform
on the rule we set. Here in this window you can select options like "start
an application" or "run a script". Select "start an
application" for the process to understand (you may set other rules
later.)
In the bottom half of the
same window, click on the link application and pick an application you want to
start when our set rule is triggered. Select Notepad to test. You may write
your own script.
Click Next to finish the
Rule Wizard and also make sure that our rule is set and turned on.
How to Trigger Application Remotely
Now to test our created
rule, I have used a Gmail email account on the receiving end, and used
"start notepad" as specific words earlier. Now we only need to send
to Outlook with a word "start notepad" in the body of the mail.
At the receiving end a
mail will be received and our set rule will be checked, if it encounter
specific words in the body of the mail, set rules will be followed and it will
start the Notepad application.
