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Adding a User Principal Name, or UPN, to Active Directory lets you match user logon names to email addresses, for example, among other things. This page describes how to add a UPN to Active Directory, so you can assign the alternate name to a user in Active Directory Users and Computers.

"The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is designed to communicate with a managed ethernet switch using SNMPv1/v2c and map the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. The software is designed for use on Microsoft Windows® operating systems."

Enter your configuration and environment details and it will return step by step instructions for migrating to Exchange 2010.

"This article describes how to manually restore a previous Windows installation on the computer to replace the current Windows 7 installation."

"Manage your Windows desktop from your Mac or Linux computer. Utilizing Microsoft RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), iTap RDP gives you complete control over and fast access to your Windows PC from anywhere. "

If multi-day calendar items show up via ActiveSync to iPhone or iPad devices, apply Exchange 2010 SP2 and Update Rollup 1 on top of that to fix the known issue.

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How to add a Trusted Sites URL without deleting existing sites from the list or locking users from making changes to the same afterwards, using Group Policies.

Free app to let you copy and paste like a normal Windows app and use Bash's readline completion and history to Windows' cmd.exe.

Customize Default Windows 8. Start Screen for all Machine Users. Allows user to change default screen and doesn't require use of group policy.

"Links about what the new and improved features of Exchange 2010 SP1 are and also a lot about how to configure these features."

"I have seen number of posts on this topic with people having trouble setting the default zoom on incoming email (Outlook 2007 seems to remember the zoom setting for composing mail, but not for reading mail). The following macro will set the zoom every time an email is opened."

"Some customers are finding that when they try to replicate their public folder content to Exchange 2010, it will not replicate." Fix contained within to clear error and allow public folders to replicate to Exchange 2010!

"I recently learned something about NASes that buyers looking to use these products for database and other simultaneous-file-access applications should know about. The issue is how Opportunistic Locking ("oplocks") are handled." "Opportunistic locks (oplocks) are a characteristic of theLAN Manager networking protocol implemented in the 32-Bit Windows family of operating system environments. Bascially, oplocks are guarantees made by a server for a shared logical volume to its clients. These guarantees inform the Client that a file's content will not be allowed to be changed by the server, or if some change is imminent, the client will be notified before the change is allowed to proceed."