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Creating an Application Setup Wizard

Question: How do I create an Application Setup Wizard from Visual FoxPro? Answer: VFP ships with a Setup Wizard, which builds three different types of installations: Standalone, Network, and Web.

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Current Time in Query

Question: Can I include something in the title line of a query to include the current date/time? Answer: You can use the GETDATE() function to return the current date and

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Exchange Server Backups

Question: What is the best Backup Software available that will do a live backup of the Exchange Information Stores? Answer: I haven’t evaluated all of them, but we’ve been satisfied

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Wireless Transmission of Photos

Question: About how fast can the current wireless systems transmit a medium- to high-resolution digital photo? What’s currently the best way to do it? Will higher baud rates of wireless

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ASP and WML

Question: Suppose I wanted to setup the IIS 4.0 to process the WML with ASP codes. Which MIME type should I configure: text/vnd.wap.wml or text/x-wap.wml? What is the difference between

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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

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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

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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

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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