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Enable Compressed Folder in Windows 2000

How can I enable the “Compressed Folder” feature in Windows 2000? The Compressed Folder feature that exists in Microsoft Plus! 98, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition and Microsoft Windows XP was not included in the Microsoft Windows 2000 family products. In order to open compressed file (with a .zip extension) in Microsoft Windows 2000, you have…

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What is StreamInsight?

What does StreamInsight mean for customers? While OLTP databases have matured and are capable of processing thousands of transactions per second; they are not optimized for processing continuous high volume, low latency streams of data. Microsoft’s innovative StreamInsight™ platform allows customers to use their own proprietary algorithms to build custom real-time applications, ISVs to build…

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Microsoft Launches Exchange 2019 Into Preview

Microsoft has just launched the preview version of Exchange 2019. The good news is that it’s a new version. What might be unexpected is the lack of new features. Some worthy plumbing won’t turn user heads, but then again, when you’re the best standalone email server on the planet, do you need to change very much? Dropping Unified Messaging will cause some brows to darken. Expect some sparks at Ignite.

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Creating a Virtual Exchange Server for Exchange 2003 Clustering

In this article I will show you in details the Steps that are necessary to create an Exchange Virtual Server for Exchange Server Clustering with Windows Server 2003. This article goes beyond my first article about clustering. In this article I gave you only the basic Steps that were necessary to create an Exchange 2003…

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5 Reasons to Choose VMware vSphere 5.5 over Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Trying to choose between VMware vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V? David Davis serves up five reasons why he thinks VMware is the better option.

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What’s Remote Assistance in Windows XP/2003?

If you’ve ever tried to help a novice user troubleshoot a Windows problem over the phone, you know how frustrating the entire process can be. It’s usually difficult for an inexperienced user to accurately communicate detailed configuration information, especially if the problem involves technically challenging areas such as hardware drivers or network protocols. Because you’re…

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V!

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

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Introduction to Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances

The ASA 5500 series is the successor to Cisco’s PIX range of firewall devices, providing industry standard routing and firewall functionality with a range of models designed for teleworker right up to large datacenter scenarios. In this article Cisco expert Tom Finnis will focus on the 5505 and 5510 models aimed at branch and head office deployments, highlighting key features and capabilities.

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PSA: Microsoft to End Support for Windows 10 Version 21H2 in June

Microsoft is reminding customers that Windows 10 version 21H2 will reach end of support next month. The company updated its Windows Health Dashboard to indicate that Windows 10 Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions will no longer receive updates after June 13, 2023. “The upcoming June 2023 security update, to be released…

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Change Print Server

Description Do you need to change your organizational print server? You might find the task of updating the clients’ printers’ settings pretty tiring… This utility will update your clients’ printers to the new print server through a logon script. The utility does not affect local printers, Netware printers and network printers from a different print…

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