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Explaining Option Menus of Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007

Here we cover all options within the Go menu, Actions and help menu. Some cool options you would have missed to notice. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007. You will get a window similar to the one shown below.

Go Option The Go option in the toolbar provides you with a list of shortcuts to the most frequently used feature in MS Outlook. The Mail option under the Go option displays the folders of your mailbox in the main window.

You will get a window similar to the one shown below.

The Calendar...

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ZenRod N/A Written on 03/05/2011 in Article

Device Manager in Windows 7

Device Manager

Device manager in Window 7 is used to graphically view all the hardware that is installed and connected to your computer. Device driver is actually software that allow window to communicate with specific hardware device. To use any hardware device drive must be installed. Some of the properties of device manager are following
  • Device manager is used to determine whether hardware on your computer is working properly.
  • Device manager identify can identify the device drives that are loaded for each device.
  • You can enable, disable and uninstalled the devices through device Manager.
  • Device manger only works on the...

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Edmund James N/A Written on 03/05/2011 in Article

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon Private Virtual Cloud (VPC) is providing facility to use our individual resources which are isolated in the Amazon Cloud. Using Amazon Virtual Private Network (VPN) we can connect our resources to the isolated computer in the cloud. Amazon VPC integrated with Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and Cloud Watch. Amazon VPC provides security such as DNS, LDAP etc., reliable, scalable and cost effective.

Before we start lets discuss some important terms in Amazon VPC.
  • VPC is a remote section of cloud. We need to provide IP...

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carolina N/A Written on 03/04/2011 in Article

Step by Step Installation of the Visual Studio 6

Step by Step Installation of the Visual Studio 6

Visual studio 6 is a computer software that is used in creating and running programs written in visual basic, C and C++ languages. Visual studio installation has several steps that need to be followed in order to work properly. Below is the explanation with images made easy to understand for its installation. It should be noted that the icons with a red mark are the required fields to be filled during the entire installation process. 1. Run the set up of visual studio 6 software as shown below.

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dider009 N/A Written on 03/04/2011 in Article

Shared Folders and Local Users in Window 7

Shared Folders and Local Users in Window 7

The option of shared folders in computer management console of window 7 has made it easy to access the remote resources and showing the remote activities on that system. It manages all file sharing and set permissions as well as mange all open files and users that are connected to share files. Shared folder has three main components. 1. Sessions 2. Open files 3. Shares Following are the steps to share a file : Step 1: To share a file user first must go to “Computer management “console by right click on Computer icon in start menu and...

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bhushan N/A Written on 03/04/2011 in Article

I am getting ntldr is missing error

I am using an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows XP on it. Last night, I was working on some projects and shut down my computer after working. This morning, when I am about to check on my project, I could not open it and there is an error that says:

NTLDR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

Pressing those keys will just restart my computer and brings me back to the same black screen with the same error. How can I fix it? I need my project ASAP.

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kristen75 N/A Written on 03/03/2011 in Question

Software Package Creation and Distribution

Software Package Creation and Distribution

Software package creation and distribution requires the following
  • Creating a package
  • Distributing the package to distribution points
  • Create the Programs for installation and uninstallation.
  • Assigning the package to an collection
Creating an Advertisement and scheduling the advertisement for installation on client machine. Create a Package Let’s install the SCCM client setup which is required to be present on all client computers. Before deploying any package, please make sure that SCCM has discovered that client to its database and the client need to be present in any one of the collections. Also the client agents should be installed...

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Matthew Palmer N/A Written on 03/02/2011 in Article

Setting up SCCM with R2 installation

SCCM with R2 Installation

Now that we have configured all the required settings for SCCM, we will now install the SCCM setup. 1. Go to SCCM installer file and click the installer setup Once the installer dialog pop-up, select Run prerequisite checker. This is to check whether we have the entire configuration in place before running SCCM.

2. Enter the primary site and management point server name and click ok

3. If the entire configurations...

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simone N/A Written on 03/02/2011 in Article

Extending the Active Directory Schema and System Management Container

Extending the Active Directory Schema and System Management container Extending the AD Active Directory (“AD”) Schema requires access rights to Schema admin groups. Schema and System Management (“SCCM”) installation and functionality such as Network Access Protection and global roaming require the AD schema to be extended. This action needs to be done once per forest. Extending of schema can be done with the utility EXTADSCH.exe. This is present in SCCM installation setup files. 1.  Browse for the location SMSSETUPBINI386 and locate the file EXTADSCH.exe 2.  Run the executable. Once...

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Cathania Gibbs N/A Written on 03/01/2011 in Article

Installation and configuration of SQL Server

Installation and configuration of SQL Server – Part 7

In this section we will cover SQL server SP2 installation. SCCM uses SQL server database for storing its data. To install SQL server follow the below steps 1.  Double click on installer Seup.exe of SQL 2005

2.  Select I Accept the licensing terms and click next

3.  Click on Install to install the pre-requisites.

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Alan W N/A Written on 03/01/2011 in Article