If you are looking to lower your cost maintaining and managing your company email here's a list of alternative email servers out there.

Recently I started to budget and plan on how I will transition our Exchange Server 2003 to 2007. The Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Mainstream Support retired this year and I have a year to transition my users to version 2007. No worries, no rush, I will take my time to prepare for this project. I still have 'till 2014 for extended support.

I was browsing one of my favorite Tech website eweek.com and read this article about the public beta release for Exchange Server 2010. I said great, the technology is always one step ahead.

"Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the follow-up to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, includes several new features designed to appeal to both the IT administrator and enterprise user, as Microsoft prepares for hard competition against Google, IBM, Cisco and others moving aggressively into the enterprise-solutions space." (2009, eweek.com)

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 includes welcome improvements and eweek.com provided a slideshow for you to enjoy. Visit eweek.com.

Well, reading this information might change my approach of upgrading. Now I have to gather information about the Exchange Server 2010 and see if I can jump to this implementation. I will share my experience when I across the bridge.

Cheers for now,
EM @ KING.NET

This is a simple HOWTO setup your Blackberry phone.

If you want to use your company email through your personal Blackberry phone. You may follow this simple procedure.

First you need to get the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) not the BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) normally use within the company added to your phone service plan.

Your phone service provider (AT&T, Verizon or Sprint) will need the following information for them to setup your BIS service. They will configure this for you when you subscribe to BIS. Normally it will take 4-8 hours before you start receiving emails through your BlackBerry phone.

Here's what needed to configure your BlackBerry phone email:

• Email Website: https://mail.king.net/owa (for example)
• Username: your network login ID
• Password: your network password

They should give your account ID and website link for you to manage your BlackBerry service if you need to add or delete email address.

Please post here comments and suggestions.
Thank you.

You are using your workstation and you see this prompt about Outlook Express box requesting to Free up disk space with option to click OK or Cancel.

The Windows XP operating system with Service Pack 2 or later is set to ask about compacting messages after every 100th closing of Outlook Express. (2009, techguy.org)

To correct this problem, you can simply run to compact your Outlook Express folder or updating the registry record.

Option 1. Compacting Folders.
In Outlook Express, click on File, Folder then Compact All Folders

Option 2. Edit the registry.
Look for this key in the Registry (run regedit)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0
Double click the Compact Check Count
Select the Base option for Decimal and change the value to 0
This should change both the Hexadecimal and decimal values from 2 to zero.
Close the Registry.

Restart your computer and check it. If error still occur, please post your comment here or visit PCLiveSupport.com community.

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Our email system is powered by Google Gmail services. The service includes the following built-in protections

• AntiSpam Tools
• AntiVirus Tools
• AntiBot Tools

This give our visitors assurance that our in and out email flow is protected by the highest security measures courtesy by Google Gmail service.

Please send email to EM@KING.NET or SUPPORT@HARDWORKING.COM if you have additional inquiry.

Managing Exchange Server is easy when you configure it correctly, you need to apply some patches to fix it and continuous monitoring of your server health. Most common issue from the default installation of Exchange Server 2007 is excessive memory, high CPU utilization or application pool resets in IIS.

Here's a simple guide to correct this problem.
- First visit http://support.microsoft.com for the updated release.
- Install the hotfix 942027 for Exchange Server 2007

Reminder, always backup your Exchange Server before your maintenance schedule.

If this help you, please don't forget to share it here.

A friend of mine is asking on how to use the /3GB parameters to fully utilize the memory management of your Windows Server 2003 to support Exchange Server 2003. It's been a while since my last setup and configuration of Exchange Server 2003 (maybe because I am managing Exchange Server 2007, by the way SP1 for Exchange Server 2007 is out).

When I need to get some information related to Microsoft Exchange Server, I always search it first through http://support.microsoft.com website. Yes not Google search. You will get 95% relevant information than searching to Google. Well it's a Microsoft product anyway.

Here's the information I've found on how you can configure your Windows Server 2003 to add the /3GB and /USERVA=3030 parameters.

"After you have installed Windows Server 2003, modify the Boot.ini file, and then add the /3GB and the /USERVA=3030 parameters to the startup line" (2009, Support.Microsoft.com)
For example:
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=30
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT

[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows Server 2003" /fastdetect /3GB /USERVA=3030

There you go, reset your server and run TASKMGR to see improvement to your Exchange Server 2003. Read here for more information.

Other useful links:
- Troubleshooting High CPU Utilization by Store.exe
- Store stops responding with High CPU Usage
- Exchange memory use and the /3b switch
- How to optimize memory usage in Exchange Server 2003
- Large memory support is available in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000

Ok you have your Google Phone (G1) and setup your first email address. Now you're wondering on how to setup your second, third email address. Please note that you can add a total five (5) email addresses to your T-Mobile Google Phone.

HOWTO add email address to Google phone:
This howto guide is to setup your 2nd email address using your Google Phone (G1). If you are looking for first time setup guide, read this article: Whaddya Know How To Add IMAP Email To Your T-Mobile G1 (Google Phone 1)?

• On the Home screen, touch the Application (^) button.
• Touch Email button. You see your existing messages.
• Press Menu button. The screen will show Refresh, Compose, Accounts and Account Settings.
• Touch Accounts. This will display your existing email address.
• Press Menu button again. The screen will show other option Refresh, Add Account and Compose.
• Touch Add Account to set up email.
• Type your email address, for example yourname@king.net
• Type your password, then click Next. It will ask for what type of account. For this example, we are adding IMAP account. Ofcourse choose POP3 for your pop email account.
• Type the incoming server settings; e.g. username, password, IMAP Server, and port. Click Next to continue. Your phone will start to establish connection, please wait ...

For incoming server example:

• Username: myname
• Password: mypassword
• IMAP Server: imap.king.net
• Port: 993 ; this is the default port of IMAP
• SSL: Yess; always secure

For outgoing server example:

• SMTP Server: mail.king.net or smtp.king.net
• Port: 25 ; default port of SMTP server
• Security Type: none or secure; none for default
• Require sign-in: checked
• Username: myname
• Password: mypassword

Follow test sending email: Whaddya Know How To Add IMAP Email To Your T-Mobile G1 (Google Phone 1)?

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I know you can setup FREE hosted email with Google Apps but if you still prefer to host your own email server, here's a solution for you courtesy by Alt-N Technologies.

The iPhone has arrived and the corporate world is now starting to configure their existing messaging infrastructure allowing employees to sync up their iPhone’s.I want to stress that IMAP4 should not be enabled without using SSL! Sending information in clear text is not recommended. I will be referencing the IMAP4 port 993 later in this article. I will step through the different actions taken for a non-clustered Exchange 2003 system. Enabling IMAP:

I don't know what I'm doing wrong not able to work my iPhone to our Exchange Server 2003. I've used the server for Pocket PDA and it working ok. I was able to successfully authenticate when I configured my iPhone for Exchange Server 2003 but no message and can't send e-mail. Though I test the same approach for Exchange Server 2007, it work just fine.

I guess there is something wrong with my Exchange Server 2003 so I have to wait to upgrade this to Exchange Server 2007. For the mean time, I need to use my iPhone to read and send email using my Exchange Server 2003 account. So I configured my iPhone using secured IMAP protocol, fast and secured as well.

This is the most comprehensive documents I've found in the Internet. Configuring Exchange Server using IMAP SSL http://www.azaleos.com/blog/index.php?q=node/43

Share your experience configuring iPhone with us.

Sincerely,
KING.NET

How to transfer outlook cache to a new computer?

I always forget this information so I blog it here and share to the world.

You just need to copy one file e.g. outlook.nk2 to your new computer and you will have your outlook cache file again.

Where to find the outlook.nk2 file?
The default location should be in your profile Outlook folder, here's the example path.
c:\Documents and Settings\loginname\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

where; the loginname is your user information when you login to your workstation.

How to transfer outlook.nk2 file to your new workstation?
You can use the following information on how to transfer file(s).

• The easiest approach, use USB drive to copy and tranfer file from one computer to another.
• Send the outlook.nk2 file as attachment using your email. Read this email to your new workstation and save the file to the outlook folder.
• Shared folder to copy file
• Call your local computer geek to help you.
• Send me e-mail. I normally reply within 2-8 hours.

And to delete the e-mail address in your outlook cache, follow this procedure:

1. Start by creating a "new mail message"
2. Type the e-mail address, use the Down arrow key to select, then use Delete key to remove the e-mail address.
3. Repeat the process to remove other e-mail address that you want out of your cache.

That's for now, post your comments.

Cheers.

I'm searching a tool replacement of exmerge for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and I stumbled to this article. I thought it would be useful to spread out this article. Post back if you have any question. Enjoy.

• Export/Import to PST must be run from a 32 bit client machine with Exchange Management Tools installed (Version Exchange 2007 SP1 or later). The 32bit requirement comes from a dependency with the Outlook client.


• Either Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 must be installed on the client machine.
  The user running the task must be an Exchange Organization Admin or an Exchange Server Admin on the server where the mailbox to export/import lives.

Exporting mailboxes to PST files

The most basic cmdlet to export a mailbox to a PST file is as follows:
Export-Mailbox –Identity -PSTFolderPath

PSTFolderPath must be a full path pointing either to a directory or to a (.pst) file. If a directory is specified a PST file named after the mailbox alias will be used as the target of the export. Note that if the PST file already exists the contents of the mailbox will be merged into it.

Managing Exchange Server 2007 is easy but sometimes you still encounter new problem. I've got one today so I'm sharing this to everyone.

Creating a new mailbox in Exchange 2007. I got this error: "An Exchange 2007 server on which an address list service is active cannot be found"

Resolution:
Go to Control Panel, Services.
Check your Exchange Server System Attendant service.
Check the status, this should be Started. If not, just double click then start the service.

This should fix this issue.

Yes, we are now accepting Email Service for our KING.NET website/domain. Where you can get your own YOURNAME@KING.NET email address for only $99.95 per year. How easy to remember yourname@KING.NET email address?

The email service is powered by Google Gmail, so you will get the same standard service as listed below:

• 6GB + mail space
• Built-in Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus tools
• Applications included e.g. Gmail, Google Talk, Calendar, Docs, Start Page, Sites, etc.
• Mobile Access
• IMAP for iPhone access
• Blackberry access
• and future add-on from Google.

We review all applications, you need to send email to SUPPORT @KING.NET with your contact information and someone will get in touch with you.

Members: To read and send e-mail, please login to http://webmail.king.net web page.

Have you consider outsourcing your email service instead of managing your own Exchange Server or POP server for yourself and/or your employees?

If you're a domainer and still using @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com or @aol.com and other free webmail, all I can say is SHAME ON YOU. Hey don't take it seriously, I'm just trying to shake your head and convince that you use one of your best domain to represent you in this business. I'm using @HARDWORKING.COM or @KING.NET email addresses, that represent me and my business. This also self promote my own business as I exchange emails to customers and old time friends.

Here's a video to find out more about google apps:
http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/Mail/index.html

Enough said! Go to www.google.com/a/ to get your own email application. Using Google Apps doesn't end just using email, you can also use the Calendar, Word, Excel, PDF and other upcoming apps still being develop by google engineers.

Here are the benefits of outsourcing your email using Google Apps:

• Email Storage 6GB+
• Calendar, Docs, Excel, PDF, website
• Mobile Access, retrieve your email using your mobile phone. I love it for my iPhone using IMAP for Gmail.
• continue reading here: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html

Sending your applications to parking services with free email address is one good reason to deny your application unless you really have some premium or keywords .com domain name. This is just one of the feedback that I received from other dissappointed customers. With your own @MyBusinessAddress.com email address you can submit your application with pride.

You can give your employees with their own email address and you don't have to worry of email management, software maintenance, software license and other related cost involve to manage email server.

I hope this article will you in some ways. Post your feedback or question related to this post. If you need me to execute this for you, I can do that for $200 per hour technical consulting service. Please don't hesitate to send me email to Emil @KING.NET.

Best regards,

Emil

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"I haven't had a raise in four years."
"Most savvy supervisors don't think longevity merits a raise - only high productivity does," Lampton states. Asking for a raise because of how long it's been since your last one will only tell your boss that you want more money, not that you deserve it. Instead, highlight the accomplishments you've made in the last four years, Lampton suggests. Prove the raise is merited.

"It's not my fault."
When your boss comes to you with a problem, the last thing you want to do is to deflect blame to someone else. Maybe it isn't your fault, but remember that you're not in a courtroom and nobody's really looking for the culprit right now. All that matters is making sure the problem is solved and doesn't happen again. You can deal with the real issue later, but you'll just make yourself look worse if you spend more time finger-pointing than problem solving.

"To be honest with you ... "
First, any time this phrase is used, you know something negative is going to follow. More important is the message it sends to others. "Does this colleague have to identify when he or she is being honest with you? When that phrase is not used, should you then doubt the integrity of the statement?" Lampton asks. Instead, without being rude, say what you need to say in a straightforward manner.

"Whom did you vote for?"
The old adage that you shouldn't discuss politics is as true today as ever before. While it's great that you're an active citizen performing your civic duty, save the politics for your personal blog. Even if the conversation doesn't result in an argument, you never know whom you're making uncomfortable or who will hold your views against you. In a sea of cubicles, there are more people listening to your conversation than you think.

"I got so trashed last night ... "
You're probably not the only person in the office to indulge in a drink (or a keg) now and then, but you're probably the only one bragging about it to your boss. Although your night of binge drinking didn't force you to call in sick this morning, it can create the image of an unreliable partier who forgot to leave the beer bong in the dorm room.

"I just didn't have enough time for that."
In case you didn't realize, everybody's pretty busy these days. When your boss asks you to do something, chances are it's not really an option. If your main concern is accomplishing the task on time, Lampton suggests you explain the situation. Mention how busy your schedule is but that you can accommodate the request if some other projects are moved around. You'll show that you take each assignment seriously and only want to turn in your best work

". . . or else."
Giving anyone in the office an ultimatum rarely ends in success. Whether you say it to a colleague or your new intern, you'll only gain enemies and earn a reputation for being difficult. If cordial requests don't work and threats are the only way to get things done in the office, you need to re-evaluate your work environment.