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Unified Messaging

The new Unified Messaging (UM) server role in Exchange Server 2007 extends the functionality of your Exchange messaging infrastructure, allowing it to transmit and store more than just traditional e-mail. As more established communication solutions (Voice and fax) find a new life on IP networks, a new means of storing and facilitating access to the information is required. The Unified Messaging (UM) server role provides that capability natively in your Exchange 2007 organization. From a user’s perspective, Unified Messaging provides easy access to voice messages, faxes, and e-mail in way that was simply not possible before Unified Messaging. The...

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User Access Control

With the increasing use of computer and information technology in all aspects of life, the importance of information security has increased concurrently. Microsoft has successfully dominated the market. Its Operating Systems have become the most widely used system application all across the globe. Microsoft Operating Systems have been relying on third-party antivirus and antimalware programs for a long period of time while they have been trying to bring this feature from within the Operating System. In the progress of system security features, Microsoft launched User Access Control (UAC) first time with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. UAC...

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Shrinking a Database in SQL server 2005

Introduction: One important function of a database maintenance plan is to keep an eye on the size of your database. Database administrators use different techniques to maintain the size of the database. One of the techniques is known as database shrinking. In this article we will discuss how to shrink a database in SQL server 2005 and what are the different techniques of reducing primary and secondary databases, and log file size. Plus, what are the features introduced in SQL server 2005 that has helped in reducing the size of databases. Database Shrinking: Database shrinking is one...

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Best Free 5 CD Recovery Utilities

We know that in the last decade, optical media was widely used to write the data on compact disk because it is much cheaper and portable. Most users tend to use CD because it is easier to use in taking backup that can be stored for long time. However, these CDs are not reliable and mostly data got corrupted, so there is a need to recover such data. CD recovery utility is used for recovering damaged data or files from Compact Disk/CD. Users may lose their important data that is written on CDs due...

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Performance Windows 7

It can be very annoying if we start our window for some urgent work and it tale long time to boot. Performance of a computer can be measured by how quickly it can complete its tasks. The performance of the system might be limited due to speed of the processor, memory availability etc. It professionals after accessing the performance of the physical devices also monitor the applications and processes to access how much resources they utilize Performance in Window 7 has some of the components as
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Data Collector sets
  • Reports
The performance monitor is component of...

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OpenOffice Suite Installation

Open Office also known as OpenOffice.org or OOo is open source alternative to MS Office. The Open Office suite consists of the components suitable for word processing, presentations, graphics, spreadsheets and databases. In this article I’ll show you how to download and install the Open Office suite. Step 1: Open Office website

Open your browser and go to the OpenOffice.org websiteand click on the block Download OpenOffice.org-3.2.1. The Open Office download will begin shortly as shown in the following screen shot.

Step 2: Opening the...

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Message Queues Under Exchange Server 2007

This article walks you through Message Queues in exchange server (ES) 2007 and how they differ from earlier versions of ES. Message Queues The major change in message queues, on transition from ES 2003 to ES 2007, is its tendency to manage queues centrally, under Queue Viewer tool of EMC toolbox. Open Exchange Management Console (EMC) to select Toolbox under Microsoft Exchange. Then double-click Queue Viewer in middle-pan to open its console.

Under Queue tab of Queue Viewer select the queue you want to see the transport messages.

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Installing Opera Web Browser

Opera web browser is another good alternative to Internet Explorer. The main features of Opera web browser are, Tabbed construction: You can open multiple websites at the same time in different tabs. Password Manager: Opera web browser has a built in password manager, so while using Opera you need not remember user ids and passwords to your web accounts. Download Manager: As Opera web browser has all the important features built in, we strongly recommend you, to install Opera web browser. In this article we will show you how easy it is to install Opera...

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Installing Firefox

Mozilla Firefox commonly known as Firefox is a popular web browser. The main features of Firefox are
  1. Free: Mozilla Firefox is free software.
  2. Private Browsing:  With Firefox it is possible to surf and browse without leaving a trace.
  3. Built-in Protection: Built in protection against fishing and malware.
  4. Speed: Browsing with Firefox is much faster.
  5. Session Restore: With Firefox you can easily restore previous session
  6. Tabbed Interface: You can view multiple websites in different tabs.
  7. Built-in Password Manager: With built-in password manager you don’t have to remember so many usernames and passwords.
  8. Anti-virus Integration: When you download a...

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Google Chrome Installation

Chrome is a web browser from Google.  It has already become quite popular, in spite of being latest entrant. The main features of Google chrome are as follows,

1. Simplicity: Google Chrome’s user interface is very streamlined, simple and user friendly. 2. Tabbed User Interface: Tabbed user Interface allows opening of multiple websites in the different tabs at the same time. 3. No toolbars: There are no toolbars in Google Chrome. 4. No separate Search Box: There is no separate box fox for searching the web in Google...

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