July 13, 2000

Remote Access Via the Internet

Question: We are a small company of some 70 staff, 50 of which are located away from the office (clients site, home, etc.). I am about to migrate from Microsoft Mail to Exchange Server 5.5. I would like to have full service (as many as possible features) from Exchange Server

Scheduling a Conference Room with Exchange

Question: How do you set up Outlook 2000 and Exchange 5.5 to use resource scheduling accounts, such as conference rooms? There are several posts about how to do this without one of these two tools, but nothing that answers this question. Answer: According to Microsoft this should be fairly trivial:

Exchange Mail Storage

Question: I have an attorney client who wants to have all his e-mail stored on his local workstation, not on the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 SP2 Server. In fact, he would prefer all his staff to have the same configuration. Can this be done? Answer: Yes, it can be done, although

Broadcast Messages to Online Users Only

Question: Is there any way in Outlook/Exchange to send out a message to all users currently logged on (like a network broadcast)? We currently send system announcements (such as for emergency outages) to all users by e-mail, which takes extra resources and clutters mailboxes for those who aren’t even using

Redirecting to Another URL with setTimeout

Most of Web developers may be familiar with the META REFRESH tag in HTML. This tag is used to take the user to another location automatically, after a specified delay. In the example given below, the browser automatically navigates to ‘newpage.html’, 5 seconds after the page is loaded. In some

Improving Usability with the LABEL Tag

When it comes to usability, the devil is in the details. Annoying little quirks can make your users hate to use your perfectly good web app. One easy (but often overlooked) way to improve usability is to use the LABEL tag with intrinsic HTML controls: Check Me! Of course, when