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…

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 …

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…

In a previous article here at Experts Exchange , I explained how to install Microsoft Office Picture Manager 2010 with Office 2013. This was necessitated by Microsoft's removal of Picture Manager from the Office 2013 suite — it had been included in Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office 2010. Many users, this author included, had high hopes that the folks at Microsoft woul…

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…

How to quickly and accurately populate Word documents with Excel data, charts and images (including Automated Bookmark generation) David Miller (dlmille) Synopsis In this article you’ll learn how to use ExcelToWord! to copy data,charts, shapes and/or images to Word in a structured fashion, whether as a one-off solution or as a product of iterating through a list/database. E…

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…

Introduction & Background..   From the unexpected lottery winnings and Nigerian princes wanting to share their millions to beautiful overseas women who can’t wait to propose marriage, scammers will use just about any angle imaginable to get you to reach into your pocket and part with your cash. They are relentless, criminal fraudsters. Being the heartless fiends they are, they don’t di…

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: LVL is …

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…

In a previous article here at Experts Exchange , I explained how to install Microsoft Office Picture Manager 2010 with Office 2013. This was necessitated by Microsoft's removal of Picture Manager from the Office 2013 suite — it had been included in Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office 2010. Many users, this author included, had high hopes that the folks at Microsoft woul…

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…

Contributing experts here can answer all kinds of technical questions.  In return for our time and expertise we get some pretty cool stuff, such as T-shirts, polo shirts, backpacks, bathroom bags (wonder whose idea that was?), these mythical things called 'points' and 'ranks', and the more deserving are awarded Most Valuable Expert (MVE) or a trophy or three.   But we also have j…

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 …

Myths and software testing – it’s an abnormal pairing of words. The field of software development is wrought by information, understanding, and keeping up with the facts. There should be no place for myths and false assumptions. There are, however, a number of software testing myths that have been prevalent for years, and that continues to affect the domain of software testing. Some of…

All these plugins have a free version with relevant limitations: if you want a fully functional plugin you must buy the Premium version. But this is not true for Transposh : Transposh is totally free, forever, without any limitation (in number of languages, number of websites or anything else). And it works great: Install Transposh and activate it Set your default language in Worpdres…

According to the   State of Work Productivity Report , 65% of full-time employees believe working from home would increase their productivity. This belief is supported by the  Forbes  article,   “Benefits of Telecommuting for the Future of Work” , which reports that two-thirds of managers noticed an increase in overall productivity from remote employees.  However, If you…

First off, I am a huge Apple product and brand fan. It started in college when I purchased my first MacBook and then eventually got hooked on the iPad. When I first started getting into sales roles, I wanted to have three monitors, but for the past six months, I’ve been working solely off my iPhone X. (The only time I use my iPad is during a meeting when I need another monitor or when viewing an ex…

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In this article, I demonstrate the most effective ways that I know of, to load data into a Microsoft SQL Server. If you know of other ways that you feel are more efficient, please share your ideas in the comments section below. Note that some customization may still be needed to cater for your own project. Preparation Complete the following two steps to follow the demonstrations: …

Today is Saturday, 14 th of March, 2020. While within China, the number of new Corona infections has already decreased, for most countries in the world, the worst is yet to come. Governments are taking strong measures to isolate the virus and businesses are following. Companies are facing a huge challenge right now: they are trying not to shut down their business. Doing so, man…

When it comes to developing workplace relationships between senior-level developers and beginner developers, sometimes the more experienced team members view it as a one-sided relationship. The perspective that the junior developer is the only person learning or benefiting is an inaccurate view. Senior-level developers can learn quite a bit from their more junior counterparts, such as how to:…