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[Feature]
How do those "OEM software" guys sell software so cheaply?
By Mark Minasi
Mark laments the fact that Microsoft considers shipdate to be an important feature of its Windows Hypervisor product.
By Mark Minasi
The decision to upgrade to Vista has to make business sense, but many companies find the costs in training and application compatibility problems outweigh any benefits Vista brings.
By Alan Sugano
The decision to upgrade your XP systems to Vista is simple when you consider features such as easier backup, a great desktop search, and vastly improved security options.
By Mark Minasi
Learn how to help PowerShell locate external tools, saving time and keeping you organized.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos
Standardizing IT equipment is the first step toward making reduced IT budgets stretch further.
By Mark Smith
Microsoft will probably release Windows 2008 to manufacturing by October or November of this year, at the latest. And, you see, that's why I'm worried.
By Mark Minasi
See how using Windows PowerShell with Windows Security event logs can help you guard against intrusion.
By Robert Sheldon
By Robert Sheldon
Learn how to use ADO.NET to retrieve SQL Server data through PowerShell scripts.
By Robert Sheldon
Because PowerShell is integrated with the.NET framework, you can leverage the .NET object model within PowerShell scripts and build ADO.NET objects that retrieve SQL Server data; learn how to use ADO.NET to insert, update, and delete SQL Server data.
By Robert Sheldon
David Chernicoff explains the advantages of authenticating email as a way to combat spam.
By David Chernicoff
Here's a VBScript script you can use to monitor how much disk space is being consumed by the Recycle Bins stored in a server's Recycler folder and how much space is available on that server's local hard drives.
By Jim Turner
Mark yearns for a more polite Windows.
By Mark Minasi
Here's what you need to know about BitLocker/AD integration.
By Mark Minasi
Mark proposes a new, more user-friendly wireless standard.
By Mark Minasi
Mark Smith checks out some of the current cell phone–and-PDA combinations. Find out what product he finally chose and why.
By Mark Smith
A discussion of the pros and cons of vendor-sponsored certifications.
By Mark Minasi
Gmail is a powerful email server that supports millions of mailboxes. Use IMAP to connect Outlook or other email clients to Gmail to create the best of two worlds—well-developed email UIs in popular clients with a good (and free) email server.
By Tony Redmond
Mark continues his evaluation of one of XP SP2's biggest features: enabling ICF by default.
By Mark Minasi
Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is nearly here. In the next four installments of his VIP column, Mark considers the pros and cons of some of the changes that SP2 will bring.
By Mark Minasi
After an in-depth discussion of Windows XP Service Pack 2's (SP2's) Windows Firewall, Mark examines some of the service pack's other interesting features.
By Mark Minasi
Mark continues his look at the forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows Firewall feature.
By Mark Minasi
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) let you access, filter, sort, and retrieve data from Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access databases using VBScript and other scripting languages. Here are some of the most common uses of ADO for databases.
By Robert Sheldon
Avoid the gotchas and ensure a successful upgrade. You’ll need to be clear on AD topology, and then deal with deployment issues with public folders, client software, archival and retention, fax, mobility, and coexistence with other Exchange versions.
By Paul Robichaux
Mark's thoughts turn to disaster recovery in the wake of a devastating tragedy.
By Mark Minasi
What's interesting about PQI's announcement of its new hard disk? It's a solid state disk.
By Mark Minasi
Mark suggests that betas don't make sense as testing tools anymore.
By Mark Minasi
DPM 2007 uses Microsoft VSS to provide in-depth protection to your key Microsoft application platforms. Learn about setting up recovery points and restoring data, enabling end-user restores, and performing bare-metal restores.
By John Savill
Get all the information you need about what Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager is and how it works, and walkthrough the installation and setup process for DPM 2007.
By John Savill
Here's a quick look at how AMD and Intel are taking advantage of something called "nonlinear heating rates."
By Mark Minasi
The author’s Get-Usage script displays usage for more categories of command types than PowerShell’s Get-Command or Get-Help cmdlets.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos
Learn the important factors to consider when setting Exchange 2007 mailbox quotas, including disk performance, database overhead, and backup-window limitations. You'll also get practical formulas to determine your maximum mailbox and database volumes.
By Brien Posey
Learn from someone else's Exchange 2007 migration experiences.
By Michael Dragone
Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 are complementary parts of Microsoft's UC strategy. Exchange 2007 SP1 enhances this relationship with features such as additional dial plan options, better fax handling, and Communicator access for remote workers.
By Paul Robichaux
You can add site resilience to your Exchange organization by implementing SCR with Exchange 2007 SP1. Find out the steps for setting up SCR and what you need to do to recover in the event of a failure.
By Tony Redmond
Implementing Exchange Server 2007’s new transport rules feature makes complying with regulatory requirements easier than in Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server. Learn how to use transport rules to add a disclaimer and apply an ethical firewall.
By Tony Redmond
You can use EMS to retrieve any type of Exchange object and its properties, then use the pipelining feature to pass results to another command. Be sure your scope is correct.
By Paul Robichaux
Exchange Management Shell lets you set mailbox quotas, establish maintenance cycles, and manage every aspect of your Exchange environment, and built-in safety features help you get into property manipulation without fear of breaking anything.
By Paul Robichaux
Learn the core concepts of the .NET Framework's Code Access Security (CAS) feature and how to administer it.
By Jan De Clercq
It’s the great next-generation DVD format war: Blu-ray or HD DVD, which will win? After the past couple of weeks, I think we all know which will be victorious, and it worries me a trifle.
By Mark Minasi
The JScript script this article presents lets you discover exactly when a user last logged on to the domain. It also tells you which server authenticated the logon, and it doesn’t require Windows Server 2003 forest functional mode.
By Bill Stewart
You don’t have to write a separate routine for text-based processes to arrange data into a usable form—use this VBScript script to create a multidimensional array of the data to reference it by rows and columns like a database.
By Jim Turner
Mark makes a few suggestions for fun holiday reading, IT style.
By Mark Minasi
Regulatory compliance and internal audit policies force many organizations to journal email messages, voicemails, and fax messages. Exchange Server 2007 makes journaling easy by establishing managed journal rules enforced through the Hub Transport server.
By Siegfried Jagott
UM with Exchange Server 2007 combines email, fax, and voicemail in your Exchange Inbox. Using Exchange Management Console, you can configure the settings to get your organization unified.
By J. Peter Bruzzese
Learn how to install and run Microsoft terminal services tools.
By Kathy Ivens
DellSerial.js can shorten the call time required when you need to work with Dell's technical support team. This script also demonstrates how JScript is sometimes easier to use than VBScript.
By Bill Stewart
The Group Policy Management Console will greatly improve Group Policy but doesn't go far enough. Mark Minasi offers suggestions for improvements.
By Mark Minasi
Mark turns cynical when answering the question, Why is Outlook regressing?
By Mark Minasi
Mark disusses his appalled reaction to a prurient advertisement for an MCSE boot camp.
By Mark Minasi
How does Microsoft get away with its software licensing, given US copyright law?
By Mark Minasi
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista have seven times more file properties than their predecessors. Here's how you can easily select and view the properties you're interested in seeing, no matter whether you're using the newest or an older OS.
By Jim Turner
Because of the COM technology behind scripting objects, scripts don’t get access to any constants’ values embedded in those objects. Here are several ways to obtain those crucial values.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos
What can you do when you want to check your servers every 60 minutes but your script takes 90 minutes to run against all your computers? Try MultiThreader.vbs. This script executes a worker script in parallel processes, simulating multi-threaded behavior.
By Chris Scoggins
Learn how to preload commands and change the color of the command shell window.
By Dick Lewis
Learn how Windows .NET Server 2003 improves the quality of IIS 6.0.
By Michael Otey
Recently, I’ve experienced what you might call a paradigm shift. I’ve abandoned Epson and HP printers in favor of Canon printers. I didn’t make this decision lightly. In fact, you might say I didn’t make the decision at all: Epson and HP made it for me.
By Mark Minasi
Learn how to configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) to work with Exchange Server and Outlook Web Access (OWA) so your organization can use an intranet to easily share documents.
By Brien Posey
Learn about the primary ADO objects--Connection, Command, Parameter, Recordset, and Field--and follow example scripts that demonstrate how to use ADO within VBScript.
By Robert Sheldon
BlackBerry PIN maintenance is a complex and arduous task. Here’s a script that automates the process of initially obtaining PIN information, then keeps that information up-to-date.
By Joseph Neubauer
Query locally logged-on users with this handy JScript script.
By Bill Stewart
The names that Out-Printer uses to identify printers aren’t obvious and aren't directly available to you in PowerShell. Here are several ways you can obtain and make printer names available to your code with no copying and pasting and minimal typing.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos
You can use WMI to remotely view and manage IP routing tables on your Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP systems.
By Alain Lissoir
Microsoft enters the customer relationship management (CRM) market with a product that leverages the Microsoft .NET platform.
By John D. Ruley
Is Microsoft quietly raising the price of the Windows Server OS? In fact, is the company, in effect, quadrupling the price?
By Mark Minasi
Mark thinks Windows AntiSpyware might fail if Microsoft doesn't keep in mind three considerations: assurance of no surprise fees in the future, ease of deployment, and Group Policy integration.
By Mark Minasi
Mark Minasi tells you what you need to know about Windows Server 2003 and licensing.
By Mark Minasi
A slew of improvements to Outlook Web Access, such as a more robust OWA Light, personal DLs, and new or improved support for WebReady Document Viewing, S/MIME, public folders, and monthly calendars, give your end users a better Outlook webmail client.
By Brien Posey
No more COMDEX; Microsoft giving away cash ... what's going on?
By Mark Minasi
Mark laments Palm's decline in usability.
By Mark Minasi
Errors happen but sometimes displayed error messages aren't the easiest format to read. ErrorParser.hta solves this problem by converting decimal, hexadecimal, and negative-number system and network error codes into standard error messages.
By Bill Stewart
Windows PowerShell can help you efficiently manage WMI objects. You can get started by learning just a few basic commands.
By Robert Sheldon
Quick commands let you easily work with the event logs on a local or remote system.
By Robert Sheldon
Windows PowerShell offers all the commands you need to manipulate files and folders on your file system. Here are some of the common functions you might need to perform.
By Robert Sheldon
Find out how to set up ADO and Microsoft's Jet OLE DB text driver so that you can use them to read delimited files.
By Bill Stewart
Sure, the PC has been successful, but has it lived up to its potential?
By Mark Minasi
This RepairNetwork script offers a quick, quiet command-line alternative to a laborious GUI process.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos
Learn about three enticing—but dropped—features that WinFS would have brought to the Longhorn feature list.
By Mark Minasi
What's the hang-up with ACS? As far as Mark can see, it's an indispensable tool. Unfortunately, Microsoft has changed its release plans.
By Mark Minasi
Keeping in sync with your small office isn't as easy as it sounds.
By Mark Minasi
If the Internet really was a highway, maybe traveling it would be safer ...
By Mark Minasi
If you often need inventory information about the remote computers you manage, check out Computer_Inventory.vbs. With this script, all you need to do is create an input file, run the script, then query the database that the script creates.
By Readers
The FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 lets you securely transfer user credentials and data using FTPS and provides improved authentication options.
By Russell Smith
Are security professionals providing a service or just securing their own jobs when they claim that no company can be sure its data is secure?
By Mark Minasi
Even the most casual observer of Windows Vista walks away with the impression that Microsoft is really attempting to secure this OS.
By Mark Minasi
Follow the steps to set up Audit Collection Services, a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting feature, then start using it to streamline security event-log auditing on your servers.
By John Howie
Transitioning to Exchange Server 2007 need not be daunting, if you do so in an orderly way. Set a comfortable coexistence period, use ExBPA to flag potential issues, and install server roles and move mailboxes in an optimum sequence.
By J. Peter Bruzzese
By Mark Minasi
Sick of hidden autostart programs?
By Mark Minasi
Your public folder migration to SharePoint requires a strategy, careful planning, and the right tools. And that's just the beginning. The process for getting rid of public folders is straightforward, but it pays to work through the steps carefully.
By Paul Robichaux
SysInfo.hta is WMI "to the max." You can collect every property available in 15 WMI Win32 classes, including new Windows Vista properties, or comment out routines to get just what you need without any extraneous information.
By Jim Turner
Use PowerShell commands to manage and test Exchange 2007 objects such as mailboxes, servers, and distribution groups.
By Tony Redmond
By Mark Minasi
How can IT keep up with all the revolutions in computing? There are two developments in software that will meet the challenge: SOA and BMP.
By Barry Briggs
Could this year's Cabir worm be a sign of things to come?
By Mark Minasi
Let's not pressure Microsoft into releasing Vista SP1 as quickly as possible. Haven't we learned our lesson?
By Mark Minasi
Run—don't walk—to the Microsoft site to download the GPMC. Its many neat features include a folder-free view of GPOs and a GPO backup and restore capability.
By Mark Minasi
Mark laments the impossibility of buying a system that's expertly configured to his needs.
By Mark Minasi
Take a few minutes to get these 6 Microsoft downloads.
By Mark Minasi
Mark Smith plays judge for a day and proposes remedies that would have increased competition and fairness while protecting Microsoft’s right to innovate.
By Mark Smith
Readers and Microsoft executives alike had plenty to say about Mark Smith's recent article regarding Microsoft's abandonment of Windows administrators.
By Mark Smith
Don't be afraid of running a database server, even if it's MSDE. Just stay on top of the patches and be aware of where your servers are.
By Mark Minasi
Mark finds it troubling that a small AD environment's DCs are prone to worrisome and time-consuming--and ultimately innocuous--error messages.
By Mark Minasi
Mark's New Year’s resolution is to fend off an old adversary: disk space.
By Mark Minasi
Hundreds of utilities are available to troubleshoot Exchange Server problems, including database, mail flow, and performance issues. Here are my top 10 utilities to identify and solve network problems.
By Brien Posey
Use PowerShell commands to interrogate message tracking log data directly.
By Tony Redmond
Solve mobile device synchronization problems in Exchange Server 2003 with these tips and a free Microsoft tool that you can use for problems related to Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), Always Up to Date (AUTD), and mobile messaging in general.
By Brien Posey
Microsoft IIS 7.0 provides more methods for limiting access to your web server, and its componentization feature lets you select only those authentication types you want to enable.
By Jan De Clercq
By Mark Minasi
A recent ChangeWave Research survey reports that more and more IT managers are migrating their systems from UNIX to Windows.
By Mark Smith
Microsoft has quietly released the User Profile Hive Cleanup service.
By Mark Minasi
JRE's automatic update feature can cause a lot of headaches for network administrators. Instead of taking aspirin after the fact, administrators can be proactive and prevent problems by following five simple steps.
By Bill Stewart
Use scripts to automate and improve your control over Windows utilities, such as NTBackup and Dfscmd.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
In Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can classify email messages and use transport rules to ensure that sensitive communications reach only their intended recipients.
By William Lefkovics
Use managed folders to help users in your Exchange organization clean up and organize their mailboxes and retain messages that should be saved to comply with legal and security regulations.
By J. Peter Bruzzese
Learn how to use WMI to monitor AD group modifications.
By Alain Lissoir
Virtualization technology can play a key role in an Exchange disaster recovery plan, as an IT administrator discovered when he restored an Exchange cluster using VMware Server.
By Eric B. Rux
This candid account of a Windows Vista migration can help you figure out what to expect in your own environment and how to deal with—or avoid—common mistakes.
By LJ Zacker
Mark has a change of heart regarding Vista, thanks to the latest build.
By Mark Minasi
By Mark Minasi
Mark wonders, “Why does everyone still think that computers are ‘high tech,’ particularly given how little really new stuff arrives?”
By Mark Minasi
In case you haven't been following the Longhorn buzz, here's what three of its most promising features will do.
By Mark Minasi
Mark rethinks his criticism of R2 and the value of FRS.
By Mark Minasi
Mark laments Microsoft's refusal to release Win2K Service Pack 5 (SP5).
By Mark Minasi
Mark is starting to get fed up with those Mac vs. PC commercials. Why has Microsoft been so slow to respond?
By Mark Minasi
Two simple functions let WSH scripts export dictionary data to an XML file and read it back with no extra work.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos
By Mark Minasi
Mark Minasi muses on why so many software vendors don't use digital certificates on their applications.
By Mark Minasi
Widescreen displays are full of potential. Here's an idea that would make them much more attractive to networkers. Are you listening, Microsoft?
By Mark Minasi
Should you bother upgrading to Windows Server 2003? Mark points to stub zones and conditional forwarding as two reasons why you should.
By Mark Minasi
Microsoft addresses long-standing requests from Windows administrators with each release of its server product--but Mark Minasi claims the company still has work to do.
By Mark Minasi
Microsoft's new Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) lets users lock down documents, email messages, and Web content like never before.
By John Howie
John Savill shares a step-by-step process for making Windows Server 2008 a functional OS.
By John Savill
[Editorial]
Although SA is marketed as a two-way street, its benefits are heavily weighted in Microsoft's favor.
By Michael Otey
Mark looks at the change-the-world part of WinFS: non-file items.
By Mark Minasi
[Feature]
Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 doesn’t have to be a painful process. Just follow these 10 tips.
By Jim McBee
If you work remotely, you can configure server-based folders for offline use, and then either work remotely or synchronize your offline folders with the folders on the server. Here's how to work offline most effectively.
By Tony Redmond
Learn how to work around the Active Directory Connector's quirks as you use the ADC to synchronize the Exchange Server 5.5 Directory with Active Directory.
By Kieran McCorry
These five points will help you design and deploy your Exchange 2007 architecture.
By Paul Robichaux
Avoid these common errors to keep on top of your Exchange backup and restore operations.
By Paul Robichaux
Exchange 2000 Server is different from its predecessors. Here's why you need to start working with it right away.
By Tony Redmond
Exchange 2000 is closely integrated with Windows 2000. What do you need to do to make the integration proceed smoothly?
By Dung Hoang Khac
Monitor your Exchange 2000 system daily so that your workdays don’t deteriorate into an endless cycle of reacting to problems.
By Joseph Neubauer
Are you the go-to person for all things SharePoint? If so, you would do well to heed these seven essential nuggets of SharePoint wisdom.
By Randy Franklin Smith
Are you the sole Exchange administrator in your company? These eight tips will help you cut to the heart of the matter and maintain an effective system.
By Paul Robichaux
This is the first of two articles that describe the steps to a better Exchange cluster.
By Daragh Morrissey
In the second of two articles, learn four more areas--configuration, security, failovers, and service packs--that can influence the effectiveness of your Exchange cluster.
By Daragh Morrissey
Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) performs its seemingly magical analysis of an Exchange organization by using a detailed, Microsoft-supplied configuration file. Learn more about this file and the latest version of ExBPA.
By Kieran McCorry
When you need only to establish mail flow and exchange address lists between Exchange Server 5.5 servers with different organization names, you can leverage Exchange Server's functionality to act like a Microsoft Mail post office.
By Frank Plawetzki
Streamline your public folder deployment with these tips for setting up the hierarchy, granting top-level permissions, assigning user permissions, and sharing folder content.
By Drew McDermott
Migrating users from a foreign email system to Exchange requires keeping track of user information and understanding the relationship between domain SIDs, machine accounts and names, and the information in the Exchange Directory Store.
By Drew McDermott
Email computer viruses are proliferating. Here are 13 actions you can take to protect your organization.
By Evan Morris
Add accountability and tracking to your company's email system.
By Joseph Neubauer
Take a close look at a few ill-documented or barely publicized aspects of the ADC that nevertheless have significant importance for Exchange administrators.
By Kieran McCorry
Learn two techniques for selective directory synchronization with the ADC.
By Kieran McCorry
New address-rewriting functionality in Exchange 2003 lets you easily map your users' addresses to other addresses.
By Donald Livengood
Learn basic strategies for administering cross-platform mail systems with as little trouble as possible.
By Brien Posey
Learn from the author's experience as he troubleshoots a corrupt mailbox store caused by a hardware failure, then restores the database.
By Daragh Morrissey
If storing all your users email indefinitely is the bane of your existence, especially in these days of heavy regulatory compliance, read this article to find out more about Exchange 2003 message journaling.
By Kieran McCorry
Tony Redmond believes that Lotus has misinterpreted some of his comments about Exchange. Tony sets the facts straight.
By Tony Redmond
You can use ADSI, WSH, and the AcctMgmt class to automate the process of creating Exchange 5.5 mailboxes and user accounts in either an AD or NT domain.
By Ethan Wilansky
Use ADSI and VBScript to automate the process of deleting Exchange 5.5 mailboxes and user accounts in either an AD or NT domain.
By Ethan Wilansky
As Benjamin Franklin said, "Time is money." Here's a solution that saves money by automating the time-intensive task of configuring Outlook 2003 mail profiles to reference users' mailboxes.
By Joseph Neubauer
Exchange Server performs multiple maintenance tasks, typically at night, to keep the mail server performing well with limited downtime.
By Tony Redmond
Learn how a backup works, review several backup methods, and think about a strategy, and look at some helpful Exchange utilities.
By Mark Ott
Now you can lock down your fleet of mobile computing devices and perform remote wipes. Get the lowdown on installing Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and configuring MSFP for Windows Mobile 5.0, and ensure better security for your mobile devices.
By Randy Franklin Smith
OWA is a handy tool for remote users, but its attachment handling leaves networks vulnerable to malicious code and intruders. Here are some tips to reduce the risks.
By Paul Robichaux
Dig into some tips and tricks that you can use to get a handle on your BlackBerry-related tasks.
By Joseph Neubauer
Should you upgrade to the new version of BES? The short answer is yes.
By Joseph Neubauer
If you have users who rely on BlackBerry devices, you should understand how these handheld devices work and how to monitor them and troubleshoot their problems.
By Joseph Neubauer
New features in BES 3.6 and BES 3.5, including policies that let you secure BlackBerry devices, make upgrading to these software versions worthwhile.
By Joseph Neubauer
BES 3.6 and BES 3.5 offer enhancements that your BlackBerry users have probably been asking for: the ability to read attachments, look up names in the GAL, synchronize more easily, surf the Web, and access corporate data.
By Joseph Neubauer
Discover how you can prevent your users from accessing an Exchange server while the system is running.
By Tony Redmond
More than likely, your company will have to produce saved email messages in a court case or compliance investigation. Use these ideas to develop your own email-discovery plan and learn about tools that can facilitate e-discovery for Exchange admins.
By David Sengupta
Have you wanted to run Exchange on a cluster but haven't had the nerve to try? Here's help: Use these easy-to-understand instructions as your guide in installing Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 cluster.
By Daragh Morrissey
An offline copy of your production Exchange server can be invaluable. Find out how you can use it and how to build one.
By Joseph Neubauer
By using provisioning tools and services, you can repeatedly produce the same result—properly built and configured servers and applications—throughout an Exchange 2000 environment.
By Evan Morris
With Exchange 2000’s switch from the DS to AD, you need a new method for manipulating user objects in bulk. A few Win2K tools provide the answer.
By Barb McDonald
Do you wonder why you can't always share calendar information within your group? Find out how Outlook handles appointments and what you can do to improve calendaring performance.
By Siegfried Jagott
You need to know how the new federal antispam law affects your messaging operations. To help you stay on the right side of the feds, we present the law's finer points and explain some provisions that your users should understand.
By Paul Robichaux
Microsoft plans to replace public folders with another repository in a future release of Exchange. Using PFDAVAdmin now will help you prepare for the transition.
By Tony Redmond
These nine configurations and options can help you deal effectively with former employees' mailboxes.
By Joseph Neubauer
Learn how you can use a script to create mailboxes in Exchange Server 5.5.
By Paul Niser
With Windows Mobile 2003, you can use IMAP or ActiveSync to access Exchange over a wireless connection. Here are some factors to consider when you’re deciding which protocol to use.
By Joseph Neubauer
Outlook Express's support of POP3 and IMAP4 gives the email client some advantages over other Exchange 2000 Server email clients. This article describes how to configure Outlook Express to work with these protocols.
By Ronald Stewart
A virtual private network provides a secure, inexpensive way to connect LANs via the Internet.
By Frank Plawetzki
You can broadly classify the wireless devices that offer email access by the type of interface they provide. Here’s a look at those classifications.
By John Rhoton
To control client-generated messaging traffic, you need to estimate your bandwidth needs, connect clients efficiently, and modify some bad user habits.
By Tony Redmond
Exchange Server 5.5 SP3 includes a new mail-management utility. Find out how you can use Mailbox Manager to control ever-growing mailboxes.
By Tony Redmond
Learn how you can ensure that outsiders don't mistake your Exchange installation for a UCE mailer and how you can configure Exchange to follow current Internet standards for preventing UCE.
By Mark Howard
Simplify your users access to email through a Web browser by creating a simple URL they can use to get to OWA.
By Barb McDonald
Learn how to use Group Policy to disable menu and toolbar commands.
By Sue Mosher
The interaction between AD and Exchange and the need to populate multiple attributes have made mailbox creation more complex in Exchange 2000 than it is in Exchange 5.5. Learn the process so that you can find, then resolve problems.
By Tony Redmond
Use Exchange Server details templates to display information about recipients that is typically available only at the server.
By Mark Ott
Customizing Exchange templates makes them even more valuable for displaying directory information such as attributes about users, contacts, distribution groups, and public folder objects.
By Tony Redmond
Here's how to take advantage of Outlook Web Access's URL addressability to customize the user's OWA experience and reuse OWA components in your applications.
By Kevin Laahs
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