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10 best Windows Vista Tweak review

First of all, we have to know that what is Windows Tweaking, actually tweaking means adjusting a complex system, or tuning of any electronic machine. Tweaks are small changes which are made to improve system performance. Here, we will discuss top 10 tweaking tools which are best for Windows Vista Operation System. Tweaking tools are needed when users of Windows Vista O.S are facing some problems in its performance. For example, Windows Vista is running with low speed during working or it is very slow at startup, it takes much time for starting up...

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Cloud Architecture: A Primer

Introduction Cloud architecture describes the design behind software that relies on the Internet for on-demand services. They are inherently structured such that the underlying infrastructure is only accessed when necessary, for instance, to handle a user's request. The required resources, such as computing servers or storage devices, are then evoked for a certain job before the unnecessary resources are released back into the ecology. This approach ensures that the applications are scalable depending on ever-changing demands. Here, we will look at an instance of cloud architecture that uses on-demand infrastructure to perform tasks as specified by thousands of...

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Personalization in Microsoft Windows 7

The use of computers is increasing day by day in every field including the use at home. The average use of computer is around 6 to 8 hours a day in most countries across the globe. Considering this fact, the operating system companies have brought lots of innovative and attracting graphic features to give the users maximum comfort while using computers. Microsoft is one of the most widely used operating system and its graphics and visuals have been one of the core elements of improvement. Microsoft Windows 7 is the latest operating system launched by...

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Outlook 2003 Menu's explained

Open Microsoft Outlook 2003. 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 option under the Go option displays the...

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What is Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006?

ISA server is a complete network and security management application for today’s IT infrastructure. ISA server acts as a gateway that eliminates the threats from Internet to your network environment. ISA also provides fast and secure access to applications and data. With new features such as Array policy, rules, policy based administration, firewall, VPN support, client deployment etc, ISA provide a large significance to information security professional, network and system administrator and overall to the total IT infrastructure. Why to use ISA 2006? Provides a protection against internal and external Internet threats...

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IIS 7.5 Installation on Windows 2008 Server

Windows 2008 Server includes IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5 together, which is popularly known as IIS 7. However IIS 7.5 with Windows Server 2008 R2 has several new features,
  • IIS Administration Pack Module
  • PowerShell snap-in
  • FTP Publishing
  • Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) publishing.
  • Advanced logging and tracing.
  • Automated tool called Best Practice Analyzer for checking compliance with security.
#1. Click on Start -> Administrative Tools -> Server Manager

#2. In the Server Manager window, on right pane, scroll down...

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SQL Server Services

Introduction: As the time passes by, the technology also shifts its gears and travel towards a better destination. Talking about SQL server the trend is the same. From SQL server 2005 to 2008 there were few changes in design, options and performance but something that is relatively similar are services. Though there are few additional features like support for policy based management, auditing, geo-spatial data and advance reporting and analysis services, the basic services that are required for proper functionality of SQL server remains almost the same. Services are individual programs or executable files that allow any application to...

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ELASTIC MAPREDUCE

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it effortless to development huge amounts of data resourcefully. Elastic Map Reduce uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS services to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing. Amazon Elastic MapReduce use Amazon EC2 to create Hadoop cluster and use Amazon simple storage service (S3) to store data, script, log file, output result. Elastic MapReduce takes care of provisioning an Amazon EC2 cluster, terminating it, moving the data between it and Amazon S3, and optimizing Hadoop. Elastic MapReduce...

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The Exchange Toolbox

The Toolbox (Figure below) is the bottom node in EMC and serves as a container for a set of utilities that deliver lots of value for Exchange administrators. Some of these utilities (such as ExBPA and ExTRA) are available from Microsoft in standalone versions so that you can run them against Exchange 2003 servers and some of the options presented are simply signposts to  utilities that already exist on the server. Not all the tools here are specifically for troubleshooting, and they are separated into four different sections: Configuration Management Tools • Best Practices Analyzer • Details Templates Editor • Public...

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Disk Management

One of the features of Window 7 is Resize the Partitions. Now you can extend and shrink the Window 7 partitions by using the Disk Management. With the Disk Management you can create the volumes, format the volumes and file systems like FAT, FAT32 or NTFS etc with out interruption by rebooting the system. As we know that now hard disks are available in terabytes range and large space is available to perform different tasks. Disk Management allows you to divide the disk into multiple partitions and store large amount of data at different locations. Now you can...

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