We all want to have the fastest possible wireless network connection. Sometimes all it takes is a simple fix to resolve wireless performance problems.  Here are 10 tips for improving your home wireless network from Microsoft at Home.

I have seen a lot of entries and how-to’s on email enabling SharePoint lists in WSS3/MOSS2007 and Exchange 2007/2003.  However, not many of them (if any) covered all the steps from start to finish.

Step 1:  Read Microsoft’s entry on how to configure SharePoint, Active Directory, DNS and other settings to get most of it done here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx.  It really is a fully comprehensive article on how to configure SharePoint, AD and DNS to allow creation of email enabled lists.  It does have on glaring hole though.  It doesn’t specify how to configure Exchange Server to pass email on to the virtual SMTP server that is set up on the SharePoint WFE server.

Step 2:  Configure Exchange:  Configuring exchange comes with two easy steps.

1. Configure accepted domains.  For your sharepoint email address specified by the Step 1.  You need to configure and accepted domain in Exchange 2007.  Go to Management Console -> Organization Config -> Hub Transport -> Accepted Domains Tab and right click.  New Accepted Domain.  Fill out the form and specify this domain as External Relay Domain.  Once created you should be all set.
2. Proceed to the Send Connectors Tab.  Right click to create a new send connector again with what name you specified.  The address space is going to be *.yourname.yourdomain.com.  The Network is going to be the FQDN of the SharePoint WFE server and the Source Server is going to be the list of exchange servers you have in your exchange farm.

Log off and you should be good to go.  In Exchange 2007.  You can go to Tools -> Mail Queue to see the queued emails sent to the SharePoint lists.  If they get stuck in this list something is misconfigured on your Exchange server.  Otherwise they should move on to the drop folder of the virtual SMTP SharePoint server for pickup by the timer service.

Good Luck!

Ran across this on Networkworld.com the other day–

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/011910-ipv4-addresses-dwindle.html

Perhaps 2010 will be the year of rapid deployment of IPv6– only time will tell (I still doubt it)! It will be an interesting transition– whenever it happens.

eGroup, VMware, Cisco, + EMC Present: “A Unified Approach to Datacenter Virtualization”

Are you struggling with the design and implementation of a more complete virtualization strategy? How do you confidently integrate a mix of technologies and systems while maximizing consolidation, performance and availability? eGroup, EMC, Cisco and VMware can show you how.

Learn how VMware, Cisco and EMC have collaborated to design, build, test AND SUPPORT joint solutions, all backed by documented best practices and reference architectures.

Learn why the 100% virtualization strategy and a true private cloud environment are quickly becoming IT imperatives..and much more!

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With EMC PowerPath/VE, you can now deliver advanced PowerPath features to streamline and automate I/O performance of VMware vSphere (ESX server 4) virtual environments.

With EMC PowerPath/VE, you can standardize path management across heterogeneous physical and virtual environments and automate and optimize virtual server, storage, and path utilization in a dynamic virtual environment. This eliminates the need to manually load-balance virtual machines and I/O-intensive applications in hyper-consolidated environments.

The trial software may be downloaded on Powerlink or off of EMC Community Network (ECN), see appropriate path and URL below:

Powerlink: Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads P-R > PowerPath for VMware
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/appmanager/km/secureDesktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=servicesDownloadsTemplatePg&internalId=0b014066804211df&_irrt=true

ECN: PowerPath/VE Community on EMC Community Network (ECN)
http://community.emc.com/go/powerpath-ve

You may also contact your eGroup account manager with any questions!

As operating systems vary and new printers come online everyday, it seems like an opportune time to have an HP print driver refresher.

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(Charleston, SC) - For its third time, eGroup will be honored at the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s annual “Roaring 20’s” event as one of the exclusive twenty regional companies whose combination of explosive growth and gross percentage revenue increases over the past 3 years has moved them to the forefront of the dynamic Charleston area business community. The event will take place on February 25th at the Charleston Marriott on Lockwood Drive.

In order to qualify for the Roaring 20, companies have to be nominated, and then are qualified and ranked using a formula created by Dixon Hughes, a local CPA firm. Companies must be headquartered in Berkeley, Charleston, or Dorchester county, be a for-profit entity and have gross revenues of more than $500,000 in each of the fiscal years 2006, 2007, and 2008.

As always, eGroup would like to convey our utmost appreciation to our customers, who give us the continued opportunity to be successful. We intimately understand that our job is to repeatedly earn your business by delivering technology solutions for serious competitors.

In case you didn’t hear WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 2 is out.

If you utilize this tool to ensure your Windows Servers and Clients remain up to date on the latest software patches and service packs, then you will want to ensure your WSUS deployment stays on the latest build. As we discussed in a previous post, WSUS can make life easier. The new service pack has a number of new features and fixes.

Here’s a quick rundown of the new items included in SP2:
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While adding storage to a Backup Server, I ran across a “bug” in Server 2003 Enterprise Edition while trying to format newly attached storage.

Here’s the quick fix:

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