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 (https://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…

In a previous article here at Experts Exchange, I wrote about my experience with Nuance's PaperPort 14 on the Windows 10 Technical Preview . Article Update on 18-Apr-2020: Last year, Kofax acquired the Document Imaging Division of Nuance, which included PaperPort. I discuss this in an EE article and video: Free in-place upgrade of Nuance PaperPort Professional …

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…

On the 23 June 2020, VMware released the first updates for ESXi 7.0 Build 15843807, which is known as the general availability build of the product, or ESXi 7.0 GA.  Two updates were released 7.0b and 7.0bs ESXi 7.0b   - Build 16324942     Security and Bugfix image ESXi 7.0bs - Build 16321839     Security only image The…

On the 23 June 2020, VMware released the first updates for ESXi 7.0 Build 15843807, which is known as the general availability build of the product, or ESXi 7.0 GA.  Two updates were released 7.0b and 7.0bs ESXi 7.0b   - Build 16324942     Security and Bugfix image ESXi 7.0bs - Build 16321839     Security only image T…

On the 23 June 2020, VMware released the first updates for ESXi 7.0 Build 15843807, which is known as the general availability build of the product, or ESXi 7.0 GA.  Two updates were released 7.0b and 7.0bs ESXi 7.0b   - Build 16324942     Security and Bugfix image ESXi 7.0bs - Build 16321839     Security only image The…

A thinking mind is a reflection of an active mind having the capacity to prune through different ideas by assessing them and developing well-crafted narratives around one’s own assertions.  Our experiences and knowledge, not only as an individual but also as a society play a significant role in shaping our assertions which may be completely correct, partially correct, or completely incorrect. …

How can you take your IT education to the next level while still maintaining a full-time career? We highlight a few actionable steps and resources that can start you on the next stage in your IT journey today.  Online courses  There are many reasons to consider taking courses to further your information technology skills and knowledge online. To start, you can find online courses that fit your lev…

This is a functioning, but work-in-progress application, pushing out a decentralized model for exchanging files between two networked computers. The architecture is peer-to-peer. The salient Java and networking principles at work in this application can be summarised as follows : Both endpoints run a listening ServerSocket standing ready to host a connection from the other. For that…

In any environment, many attributes exist not just to create a talented team, but to ensure they work well together. Bringing together a wide variety of personalities and work styles requires masterful, creative management skills. For teams that wear many hats — from designing software that propels the business forward to supporting other departments by acting as a rescue operation — building a …

In my previous  Experts Exchange Articles , most have featured Basic and Intermediate VMware and Virtualisation Topics.  If you would like to read my Basic VMware articles, they are listed at the end of this article for your convenience. In this series of basic VMware articles for the Novice, I'll be showing you the basic VMware skills required to install, configure and deploy …