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…

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 …

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…

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…

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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 …

In the Previous article, we discussed, how we Recover Exchange Mailbox Folder From EDB File but in an Exchange environment, a different EDB File is created according to different versions. Different exchange versions are released via Microsoft . In older versions of Exchange, file formats such as "Pub.edb", "Priv.edb" and   STM File were created and all three files had a diff…

Back in the days when BitLocker was introduced in 2006, not many machines were equipped with TPM chips that allowed transparent, hands-free encryption. So what did you do on your Windows Vista machine if you still wanted to use Bitlocker? Right, you used a USB stick that served as some kind of key to the machine. With the stick plugged in, the machines just started, no password nee…

Secure SDLC Principles and Practices Secure Software Development Life Cycle (S-SDLC) means security across all the phases of SDLC. Security principles could be the following: reduce risk to an acceptable level, grant access to information assets based on essential privileges, deploy multiple layers of controls to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from attacks and ensure se…

More and more, artificial intelligence technology is becoming prevalent in the digital universe via cloud services. It powers online shopping recommendations, processes voice commands for popular applications, such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri platform, and enables photo recognition as well as detects malicious activities such as email, spam and credit card fraud. Researchers reco…

In the era of digitization, cloud computing is playing an important role in the life of organizational users worldwide. Seeing this open-arm kind of adoption for online technology, Google introduced a new type of laptop in the market i.e., Chromebook.  Instead of working with Mac or Windows OS, Chromebooks run its own Google Chrome operating system. These PCs are coded to be primarily…

Exchange Disaster Recovery Plan At Different Level in Exchange Environment In   an Exchange Environment, Data loss can be possible at different levels. it can occur at the Server Level, Database level and even only some mailboxes can be corrupted depending on different scenarios.  In this section, we try to find some Plans & Tips that can help the Administrator to recover back dat…

Hello All,  Our company likes to utilize PROTECTLI devices for firewall solutions for clients. We have encountered issues as of late with the newest pfSense 2.4.4.   We noticed some impacting issues with routine maintenance and I wanted to share this information with you to help prevent downtime. We were creating a memstick bootable USB with something like Rufus when …

According to the current analysis, most Outlook users want to upload PST to Office 365 online archive. Because Outlook is a desktop-based email client that stores their data in the local machine, it can be difficult to access Outlook data files without a laptop.  On the other hand, Office 365 services provide a great opportunity for business users and make PST files accessible anywhere an…