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Exchange Server 5.5 Messages to AOL Recipients

Question: None of the clients using Exchange e-mail can successfully send an e-mail message to an America Online recipient. We do not get an undeliverable message from the Exchange Server.

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Exchange Event Service

Question: I have nine Exchange 5.5 post offices. Most started as 5.0 post offices, which were then upgraded to 5.5 with SP1. The newer post offices have a “Microsoft Exchange

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Opening Multiple Mailboxes

Question: In our organization, some employees belong to a group mailbox. Is it possible to open multiple mailboxes (including some shared ones) from a single Exchange profile? Answer: You can

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Public Folders as Conference Rooms

Question: How do I set up public folders as conference rooms and see available times in the meeting planner? If I add the rooms as a resource it gives me

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Exchange Client Setup for Sensitive E-mails

Question: Can you explain if the Exchange client can be set up as follows: User A has shared the Inbox for Secretary A. User A receives a message from another

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18 Common Programming Traps in MTS

icrosoft Transaction Server (MTS) is certainly not new, but there are still a lot of common design and programming errors being made. In this article I will show you 18

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Linker Optimizations

While most of the code optimizations are performed at compile time, there are optimizations that only a linker can perform. For example, it can detect unreferenced function calls. These are

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Deleting a const Object

In earlier stages of C++, it was impossible to delete a const object, even if that object was constructed on the free store. This could cause memory leaks. However, the

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Initializing a Bit Struct

To initialize a struct that contains bit fields, simply use the ={0}partial initialization list: int main(){ struct MP3_HEADER { unsigned Sync:11; unsigned Version:2; unsigned Layer:2; unsigned Protection:1; unsigned Bitrate:4; unsigned

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Switch Statement

Question: Does Java have a switch statement that can use doubles and floats? Answer: The Java switch statement only supports values of type char, byte,short, or int. To conditionally execute

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Efficiency of STL or Quality of Implementation?

I often hear people ask whether it’s possible to write code that is quicker than STL. This is a paradoxical question: the C++ Standard defines minimum performance requirements with which

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Finding the Calling Procedure

Question: Often I place a Break Point in a Function or Procedure for Debugging purposes.How I can find the immediate calling procedure?Or, better how I can find all the previous

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Access 97 vs. 2000 Databases

Question: I have a program in VB6 using an Access 97 database. The code I use for all my procedures is as follows: Dim db as DatabaseSet db = DBEngine.Workspaces(0).OpenDatabase(“biblio.mdb”,

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Differences Between C++ and Java

Question: In C++, when a programmer intends to write: if (value == 1) { But, they often make the following mistake: if (value = 1) {…… Why doesn’t this problem

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DSN-Less with ADO

Question: When I try to implement the code that is in MSDN, I receive Run-time error ‘446’ Object doesn’t support named arguments. Dim cn As New ADODB.ConnectionDim rs As New

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Passing Command-Line Parameters

Question: I need to know how to pass a parameter from HTML to Standard EXE, and how to get these parameters in VB after you’ve passed them? Answer: Visual Basic

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App Not Running on Other Machines

Question: After compiling my VB app, and installing it on my machine, it will run. But, when I install it on my professor’s machine at school, it doesn’t work at

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Replace Function

Question: I just started with VB6 programming and I need to write a short program doing the following: 1. Enter a sentence.2. From this sentence which was entered, pick any

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VB Class Module

Question: I have noticed that a termination event won’t be fired unless the class variable is out of scope, or I specifically set the class variable to Nothing (in earlier

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Cube Root Function

Question: Would you please tell me the code in Visual Basic for a cube root function on a basic calculator. Answer: It’s very simple, you just have to raise a

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ADO Provider Problem

Question: I created a program to help our sales department to keep track of their sale quotes. It uses a MDB database and I used the ADO components to gather

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ADO & SQLServer Provider

Question: When opening an ADO connection, how do I specify that it use the SQL Server OLEDB provider with a DSN? Answer: Here’s the connection string you should use. Be