Archive for October, 2007

Power Up Your Outlook: 5 Things You Must Know How To Do

Outlook 2007 is an incredibly powerful tool. More than just your email client, you can use the new Outlook to organize your entire day. You can set up your calendar, get feeds from the internet, manage your contacts and meetings, and much more.

But before you can call yourself a serious Outlook user, there are some […]

5 Simple Ways to Get Motivated for Your IT Certification Exam

Since today is one of my favorite days of the year (Happy Halloween everyone!), I decided to break up the routine a bit. Instead of updating you on my CompTIA A+ progress, I will be talking about some simple strategies I’ve found and that I’ve been using to find motivation to study for my first […]

SharePoint Services Part 2: Learn to Create a New Custom List

In my last article, I went over the steps that are involved in Creating a New Child Site in SharePoint Services, which covered the first objective in designing a knowledge base, an inventory, and a collaboration tool for our fictitious IT department that I’m using as an example.
If you missed the first article, I would […]

Networking Basics: TCP, UDP, TCP/IP & OSI models

The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite was created by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to ensure that communications could survive any conditions and that data integrity wouldn’t be compromised under malicious attacks.
The Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model (OSI Model) is an abstract description for network protocol design, developed as an effort […]

My First IT Certification! Part 11: CompTIA A+

Safety, the Environment, and Professionalism

The two videos that concluded the first disk of the CompTIA A+ training were on Safety and Environmental Issues and on Communication and Professionalism. These were the only two videos in this training so far that were not technical in nature, but instead focused on issues that are important to all […]