If you’re trying to get Entourage 2008 for the Mac to work with a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server there’s a few things you need to know. First, according to Microsoft, you need to install Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 and Rollup 4. This seems to be correct. Second, you need to go to your favorite [...]

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Following on from part 2 of this guide: Install the maildirmake utility, which is part of the maildrop package. apt-get install maildrop Create a group for the virtual mail server, then create a user and add the user to the group: groupadd vmail useradd -g vmail vmail Take a look in your /etc/group file and [...]

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People using a laptop often want to download all their email to their laptop before starting a journey so they can work with their email without a connection to the Internet. Microsoft Outlook’s “Offline” mode allows Outlook to be used without an Internet connection, but it doesn’t automatically download all your email to your laptop [...]

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It’s surprisingly easy to get your Facebook Events to appear in your iPhone Calendar, and much the same method works for other iCAL compatible applications such as Microsoft Outlook. Step 1: Go to you Facebook page and click on “Events” (Green Circle) Go to the bottom of your Events list and click on “Export Events” [...]

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Here in The Hypervisor Labs, we think you don’t need to buy an expensive new TV to get the benefit of HD TV. Rather, it seems its the software in your set top box (STB) that may be the most important factor affecting picture quality. For example, we purchased a Fortec Star Passion+ STB from [...]

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Synchronizing the calendar and contacts information between your iPhone and a Google Gmail account is free and easy to setup. As an added bonus, the synchronisation happens virtually in real time and “over the air” using the iPhone’s WiFi or cellular data connection to the Internet. This means if you change something on the iPhone [...]

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We explain how to create a simple server virtual machine (VM) running Ubuntu Linux 8.0.4. We chose Ubuntu because it is well supported both by free on-line documentation and also by services companies that you could pay for help and advice. We assume you are running VMware Workstation 6, but these instructions would work just [...]

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This article explains how to set up a Ubuntu server as a virtual mail host. The resulting server could be used as a bastion mail server, which accepts email from anywhere on the Internet, provided the email is addressed to a domain hosted by your network. A further HowTo explains how to convert this configuration [...]

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We explain how to update our Bastion Mail host configuration so it could be used as an internal mail server, which would accept mail from any user that is logged into this server – they could be connected from anywhere on the Internet, provided they have a user account defined in the “virtual” table in the [...]

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