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Recommend Cisco Home Lab
Please give me your thoughts on the best way to setup a Cisco home lab. Although I need to re-certify my CCNA my focus is to take a deep technical dive and master Cisco before going on to next level(CCNP). I work with Cisco but want my own lab to experiment and try different topologies [...]

Answer Question   |  February 7, 2011  1:43 PM
CCNA, CCNA Certification, CCNP, Cisco, Routers, Switches
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165 pts.

Lotus Notes 7.02 keeps resetting default browser
I am running Lotus Notes 7.02 on a Mac OSX. Every day I have to re-set my preferred default browser in notes to Firefox. Firefox is already set as the default for the o/s…why doesn’t notes keep it?

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2010  1:42 PM
Lotus Notes 7.0.2, Lotus Notes errors, Lotus Notes Rules
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5 pts.

Complex SQL query in SQL Server 2008 tables
Sir, i have 2 tables , first table column one is 1,2,3,4, and column two is x,y,w,z and second table  first column of 1,2,3 second column is (1;2),(1;2;3;4),(2,4), i wand to display the result as in first colum 1,2,3 and second column as (x,y),(x,y,w,z),(w,z) please help me in this regard

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2011  12:42 PM
SQL, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server tables
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5 pts.

Contacts / Contacts in Personal Folder creating mail merge in Outlook 2007
Both these options appear in the ‘My Contacts’ menu but there is nothing under ‘Contacts in Personal Folders’ when selected – all my contact info being under ‘Contacts’ However it seems that Word 2007 wants to create a Mail Merge using ‘Contacts in Personal Folder’ and doesn’t recognise the info under ‘Contacts’. Can anyone please [...]

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  11:54 AM
Mail merge, Outlook, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2007 contacts, Outlook contacts, Word 2007
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5 pts.

Retrieve the file names in IFS folder to a physical file
I got one scenario, in that I need to retrieve the file names including the Dates from IFS folder to a Physical File. From that PF, I need to delete the files older than 15 days. Is there any way to do that? Thanks Saravanan

Answer Question   |  December 21, 2010  8:59 AM
IFS, IFS Directory, IFS Folder, Physical Files, V5R4
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150 pts.

How to transfer database from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2005
how to attach database of  sql 2008 into sql 2005

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  6:13 AM
SQL, SQL Database, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server migration
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5 pts.

Forgot password on Excel
In LAN environment, is there any way to find out forgot password that I set for excel spreadsheet?

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2011  5:48 AM
excel, Excel 2010, LAN, Microsoft Excel password protection, Password cracking, Password recovery, Windows XP Professional SP3
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60 pts.

Offline files not working Windows 7
Hi all I have a strange problem with a Windows 7 pro user. I have enabled offline files but when I right-click on the shared folder I get the option “always available” but when I click on it nothing happens. It is not that the option is greyed out or not there, it is there [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  11:58 PM
Offline files, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows 7 Professional, Windows File Server
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70 pts.

Cleaning up user mailboxes in Outlook 2007
I have Exchange 2003 with Outlook 2007. I have several users who have left the company. If I delete the user in AD, is the mailbox and it contents automatically deleted? If the user is disabled, I don’t think the mailbox is deleted, but how would I get in there to delete out email? What [...]

Answer Question   |  December 7, 2010  10:12 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange user profile, Exchange user settings, Outlook 2007, Outlook Mailboxes
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145 pts.

Recover Outlook Express email after compression
Hi guys i had a problem awhile ago on a users pc. What happend was outlook express prompted for emails to be compressed and without thinking the user hit the ok tab and most of the users email vanished.I was called out to try and recover the mail but i failed to do so. After a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 25, 2012  9:25 PM
File compression, Outlook email, Outlook Errors, Outlook Express, Outlook Express Error
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165 pts.

Refresh Excel file on a different server with SSIS package
I am trying to refresh an excel file that is on different server. is there any script that can be creatted with SSIS pacage that can do this. any help will be appriciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  8:25 PM
excel, Excel Scripts, SSIS, SSIS Package
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10 pts.

Copy high volume of data between AS/400
Neeed copy big file between iseries faster, this moment the requerided is 2 days? Need your coments to do the transfer more quicKly

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2010  8:22 PM
AS/400 data transfer, AS/400 database, AS/400 Database File, Copy Database, Data Transfer Rate
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25 pts.

What is the process for upgrading from Windows server 2003 to windows server 2008?
What is the process for upgrading a domain from Windows server 2003 to Windows Server 2008? Does the schema need to be extended? Is it a manual process? Is this the preferred method?

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  7:41 PM
Schema Administrator, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Upgrade, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Migrations and Upgrades, Windows Server Upgrades
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975 pts.

How to setup dual homing for a domain and rdc separately?
How do you setup a dual homing pc with windows 7 pro?  we need to connect to a domain and have a rdc through a seperate connection and firewall.  Thanks

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  7:34 PM
Access Points, Domain management, RDC, Windows 7, Windows 7 Professional, Windows networking
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5 pts.

Windows Server 2003 ping/monitoring capabilities
Does Windows Server 2003 have built in ping/monitoring capabilities to alert us if a server goes down? If so how can we set this up?

Answer Question   |  December 16, 2010  7:33 PM
Ping Requests, Server monitoring, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Windows Server Management, windows server monitoring tools
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975 pts.

Setting up Windows Server 2008 alerts
How do you set up alerts on a Windows Server 2008 to email an administrator if certain thresholds are broken? What are our available options with built in tools?

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  7:27 PM
Windows administration, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration, Windows Server 2008 Administrative privileges, Windows server administration, Windows Server Alert Service
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1,110 pts.

Web Services and SSL Certifications
Hello All, I am working with vendor who offers SOAP based web services that I’m trying to use for my company.  The web services app/client that I’m builiding will reside on an IIS box, on our company network.  The web services require a cert for mutual SSL and another for TLS.  The vendor is requesting [...]

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2011  6:25 PM
ASP.NET, Certifications, HTTP, License management, SSL, SSL & TLS, Web services
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15 pts.

VBA to separate overlapping times
I am stuck trying to seperate overlapping times. The situation is that I have 5 devices requiring x amount of material at the differing durations. What I need to do is seperate the durations and add the demands together for the new duration, but there can be as many as 5 overlapping demands; here is [...]

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  5:46 PM
Excel 2007, Timestamp, VB codes, VBA
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75 pts.

Auditing User Access in AS/400
I am trying to figure out how to audit user access at the record level. In the Audit Journal the entry types ZC and ZR tell me at the file level who has opened a file for Change or Read. In the Journal, the Journal code of R along with the type code will give [...]

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  4:44 PM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 audit, Auditing, Journaling (AS/400)
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2,480 pts.

Roaming Windows Profile Issues
I support an application that gives users several preferences to choose from. These are written to the Windows registry in the CurrentUser directory. Is there a way to implement or save these settings for a roaming user profile in Windows? Normally I would just export and import the registry for these settings between users. But [...]

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  4:42 PM
Roaming Profiles, User profiles, Windows Registry, Windows Server User Profiles
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225 pts.