It is in our nature to love the puzzle. We are obsessed. The lot of us. We love puzzles. We love the challenge. We thrive on finding the answer. We hate disarray. It bothers us deep in our soul. We love the accolades. We love to be seen as the digital white knight who fixed the server, the computer, the email, and anything else that life depends on. We love it so much, we some…

This guide is intended to provide step by step instructions on how to migrate from Small Business Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010. For this migration to work you will need the following software: Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003)Windows 2008 Server or Windows 2008 R2 ServerExchange Server 2010Microsoft Office Filt…

On numerous occasions I was seeing questions pop up that involved Exchange 2003 and problems getting iPhones / Windows Mobile phones and now more recently, iPads, to work with Activesync, so after answering several questions, I decided to write the following article to assist others in answering their problems, covering all the possible scenarios that I had faced when tackling these proble…

Known by most simply as Google’s version of web-based email, Gmail has quite a fascinating background. Released to the public in 2004, Gmail was actually in beta for five years. This means that users have only known the official Gmail for a little more than two years, except for those users who immediately turned on the “Back to Beta” feature as soon as the email service switched out of its i…

There have been a lot of questions recently regarding Outlook prompting for a username and password whilst using Exchange 2007. There are a few reasons why this would happen and I will try to cover the most common ones here. Exchange 2007 Service Pack There was an issue with repeated password prompts that was resolved by installing Rollup 9 for Exchange 2007 SP1…

Foreword In the years since this article was written, numerous hacking attacks have targeted password-protected web sites.  The storage of client passwords has become a subject of much discussion, some of it useful and some of it misguided.  Of course nobody would store client passwords in clear-text, but many of the attempted solutions (message digests, encryption, etc) are little …

HOW TO: Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) in 15 minutes In my previous Experts Exchange Articles (http://www.experts-exchange.com/ARTH_1864316.html?arthOrderBy=3&arthSort=1#arth), most have featured Basic and Intermediate VMware and Virtualisation Topics. If you would like to read my Basic VMware articles, they are listed here for …

Introduction Perhaps more familiar to developers who primarily use VBScript than to developers who tend to work only with Microsoft Office and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the Dictionary is a powerful and versatile class, and is useful for many programming tasks. While VBA's native Collection class offers functionality that is in many respects similar to the Dictionary, the D…

I've replied to several members this week (in both private messages and group discussions) who asked the question in the title of this article. I suspect more of the same may be coming, so rather than posting the same answer each time, I decided to write this article, and will simply send along its link to members when the question is posed. What they're talking about is this: …

Background: In Access 2007, Microsoft did away with the database window and replaced it with the Navigation Pane, frequently referred to as the NavPane, or more appropriately, the NavPain [sic]. I really like the search feature of the NavPane, but I keep seeing forum posts asking how to resolve the problem that no matter how you hide it, it will not remain hidden when you import or link…

Would you like to write a technical article and have it published?  Great! Welcome to our world! This is my tutorial on how to increase the odds of getting your article published and with honors, and is full of witty one-liners from writing around twenty and editing around a hundred articles.  This ​Top 10 Ways To Write Rock Star Articles is not the official opinion of Experts Exchange.  It i…

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Introduction: Have you ever been given the advice NOT to use domain functions inside queries?  I have, and I have repeated that advice over and over again; why?  The main reason is that this process is inherently slow. But what if you absolutely need that value in your dataset?  I recently ran into this problem, and no matter what I tried, I could not get a particular field into a dataset an…

Preface: When I started this series, I used the term CommandBars because that is the Office Object class that it discusses. Unfortunately, when Microsoft introduced Office 2007, they replaced the standard Commandbar menus with "The Ribbon" and removed the user interface for creating commandbars. This resulted in a common misconception that all CommandBars have been deprecated …

Personal disclaimer Before going any further I want to make it clear that the contents of this article express my personal opinion. You are perfectly free to disagree and I respect your right to do so. That said, you are highly unlikely to convince me that learning C is a valuable path to learning C++ so whilst I do appreciate any comments you might have on my article, posting long-winded arguments to th…

This demonstration started out as a follow up to some recently posted questions on the subject of logging in: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/JavaScript/Q_28634665.html and http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/ASP/Q_28641013.html. The Asker was originally trying to find a way to elimi…

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Without even knowing it, most of us are using web applications on a daily basis.  In fact, Gmail and Yahoo email, Twitter, Facebook, and eBay are used by most of us daily—and they are web applications. We generally confuse these web applications tools for websites.  So, what is a web application and how is it different from a website? What are some different types of web applications?…

When you have clients or friends from around the world it becomes a challenge to arrange a meeting or effectively manage your time. By default, Microsoft Outlook 2016 displays calendars with only one time zone - the one you are currently in. You always need to remember the time difference between the time zones and calculate when arranging a meeting with somebody from the other part of th…

The core idea of this article is to make you acquainted with the best way in which you can export Exchange mailbox to PST format. Nonetheless, before delving into it, it would be good if you have the knowledge of the instances and need to export the mailboxes from Exchange Server database to Outlook PST file format that is nothing but converting Exchange EDB files to Outlook PST format. With this, …

When you think of technology solutions, the words DNA, ancestry, or cousin are likely not in your forethought. But they should be. The inner workings of your genetic disposition can be mapped, studied, and compared. In some cases, it can even solve skeletons in your family history closet. In this article, I’ll show how research, determination, and use of modern technology helped me solve…

Subscribe to Expert News The Future of IT Educational Technology Bringing IT to the Forefront in K-12 districts When the tech world thinks of devastating cyber attacks, major corporate losses come to mind. We don’t often think of the public school system, though it’s an easy target for domestic and international hackers. Read John Gates’ article that outlines why cyber protecti…

Are you an Exchange administrator employed with an organization? And, have you encountered a corrupt Exchange database due to which you are not able to open its EDB file and access the stored data items, such as emails, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, journals, and others? Well, if this is the scenario then it becomes necessary for you to repair corrupt Exchange database as soo…

Stellar Data Recovery has always served to be one of the best providers of data recovery software to computer users and IT administrators. Going in the same direction, it has devised a one-stop solution for Exchange Administrators to address all MS Exchange Server issues, which is known by the name of Stellar Exchange Toolkit . This toolkit is a package  of 5 tools: Stellar Phoenix …