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…

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…

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 & 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 …

Introduction and Requirements This is a beginner hands-on tutorial. There are no special requirements, although, having some basic webserver experience will be advantageous.   For reference, the Docker image created in this article was created using an AWS EC2 t2.medium Instance running the Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03.0 (HVM), SSD Volume Type  (ami-0893…

If your network router is bricked, and you cannot recover it using any technique, provided by a manufacturer, chances are that it is hard-bricked. In my case, the power light was not going on, just network port lights. No serial console output at all. No recovery method of 30/30/30 would work. In this case, you have a chance to de-brick the device using JTAG. To access this fe…

Undoubtedly, cybersecurity is one of the terrific cloud computing challenges in the 21 st century. In today’s date, we have invested a large amount of precious time, money, and efforts to defend business networks still, the problem continues; In fact, it is getting worse day-by-day. Why? Well, the answer to this question is changing the regular Cybersecurity mindset to make on-premis…

Suppose you're given a business problem to predict the outcome of a business process such as– "Whether an order will be fulfilled on time or not" In other words, you're given an order with an order-date and expected-delivery-date, and you need to predict if this order will be delivered within its expected-delivery-date or not and if possible predict the actual-delivery-date. Given …

Article Applicability: Microsoft Exchange 2010 and above versions. Database portability refers to the ability to move or copy a database from one place to other or from one platform to another. In Microsoft Exchange terms, a database can be moved \ copied \ restored (Ported) from one mailbox server to another mailbox server and users can be reconnected to a ported database. …

For many years I have had an exorbitant amount of email, as many of you do as well.  My email reader of choice, on a Windows-based computer, is Outlook.  When our institution first set up MS Exchange as our mail server software, I started making rules to sort my email into various different folders and subfolders.  I quickly ran out fo Rules space (I believe the default was 64kb at the time…

Introduction What I like about Topshelf is that it turns a console application into a service installer with a comprehensive set of command-line options for installing, configuring, and running your application as a service. This means you can run it as a console application and easily install it as a service without having to write the code. I also utilize the Topshelf.Log4Net to enable both service …

Introduction In much the same way as happened with Windows XP, many have hung on to Windows 7 and have yet to upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft stopped mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015, and the clock is now ticking on extended support as well. Windows 7 extended support life will be stopped by Microsoft on January 14th, 2020 . Understan…