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…

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 …

The Atlanta ransomware attack affected more than 140 essential applications, 30 percent of which supported vital municipal functions such as the court system and police department. Additionally, the attack cost the City Attorney’s office 10 years' worth of documents and the police lost all their stored dash-cam footage. For confidence and peace of mind, users need data protection solut…

We’ve accumulated a massive amount of data in the Information Age, which is only increasing as the digital universe grows. By 2020, the digital universe will likely grow to 40,000 exabytes,  compared with just 130 in 2005. Because of the wealth of data that is now available, big data has shifted from a novelty to a necessity for businesses in the last few years. Combing thro…

The cyber attack on Premium Credit   On Sunday 16th September 2018 at 9.30am, Premium Credit - a number one insurance premium finance company in the UK and Ireland came under cyber attack. For over 25 years, Premium Credit has helped businesses and individuals pay for their insurance. They provide the finance to pay annual fees such as professional fees, membershi…

Upgrading VMware ESXi, 5.1.0, (2323236) to ESXi, 6.5.0, (4887370) Note: a direct upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5 is not supported, so follow the below steps for a smooth upgrade. Copy the ESXi 6.0.0 to a USB flash using Rufus app to make it bootable. Boot from the USB flash drive on the ESXi 5.1 Choose upgrade and reserve the VMFS…

Calendar Section in Exchange Environment MS Exchange Server helps to manage and store data items such as emails, contacts, calendars, and more with the Outlook Application. Moreover, the Calendar plays a significant role and used to schedule an upcoming day for meetings and events and sometimes Exchange users need to need to move all Calendar entries from the mailbox into a separate…

Introduction Native password policy for Microsoft Active Directory is only good enough to implement the most basic password policy. Typically companies opt for an 8 character complex password, but what people don't realize is that with such a policy, the following are perfectly acceptable  Password1 Company1 Pass1word ... What is disconcerting to me, is…

MS Exchange Server stores it’s all emails, contacts, notes, journals and other user details in EDB format. Sometimes, users need to create a backup of Exchange EDB files into Outlook PST format due to the various advantages of doing so. However, Microsoft Outlook is a desktop based email client, which stores all the data on the local machine. Hence, people often need a solution to convert E…

A PDF file is the best file format to share a document across different devices without compromising the file quality. Also, it provides the facility to search & select particular text and highlight them easily. With the help of a highlighter tool, users can easily find their crucial information throughout the document.  However, non-editable PDF's disable the highlight text option. This can be deeply u…