Archive for October, 2007

Outlook 2007 Training: How To Accomplish More With Your Email!

We all use email, whether we love it, hate it, or have learned to live with it. I’m definitely on love terms with my email. I can’t imagine life without being able to communicate through text; it’s definitely my preferred method of communication.

Microsoft Outlook is a popular email application, but it does more than facilitate […]

11 Best Keyboard Shortcuts for Outlook 2007

If you’re like me, Microsoft Office Outlook is pretty much your home-base while you’re at work. Outlook 2007 is the latest version of this ubiquitous email client, and it is much improved over its predecessors. I use it for everything from the normal correspondence, to task-lists and appointments, to even a little bit of data […]

SharePoint Services Part 1: Learn to Create a New Child Site

After installing Windows SharePoint Services, a top-level site is initially created and set as the main site to host on port 80 on the server.
A top-level site is the base site for an organization and can contain multiple child sites for different departments or projects. Top-level sites and child sites are functionally the same; […]

Network Congestion Avoidance: WRED the Sophisticated Choice

My last article, on Simple Strategies to Eliminate Congestion Headaches, was an introduction to congestion avoidance, where I covered queuing, queuing mechanisms, and dropping schemes. Today’s article focuses exclusively on Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED), which is a sophisticated congestion avoidance mechanism.

Weighted Random Early Detection is able to prioritize different traffic flows so that important […]

SharePoint Server 2007 Training Videos Have Arrived!

The wait is over: SharePoint Server 2007 Training Videos are here!

Visit Train Signal for more information on this new release and to see a free demo of the course.
Also, be sure to check out the interview with Ben “Coach” Culbertson — instructor of the SharePoint Server 2007 Training!
With over 10 hours of instructor led […]