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Get ahead of the cloud skills gap

There may be a growing shortage of IT pros with cloud skills, but you can take action now and become a valuable asset with the right skills.
Simple steps to prioritize the IT tasks at hand

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by a growing to-do list of IT tasks, but there are easy ways you can decide what to tackle first and what can wait.
Five things about creating Exchange 2013 site mailboxes

Exchange 2013 site mailboxes tie SharePoint and Exchange 2013 together. Setup can be tricky, but understanding these five aspects can help.
How to get users on your side when working in IT

IT pros can get a bad rap from stereotypes (we mean you, Nick Burns), but there are steps you can take when working in IT to get users on your side.

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Visual Basic add-ins
Is VoIP ready for prime time?
Speed up NTFS performance

Disabling the directory update on an NTFS volume can speed things up.
Stop wasting cache

By default, Windows NT and 2000 do not utilize a second level cache larger than 256KB.
Get rid of unwanted logon logo
Fixing confused shortcuts

A shortcut copied from one machine to another will resolve will not resolve to the proper path.
Host more than one OS in a single machine

Strom Tip: Host more than one OS in a single machine
Send any file to Notepad
Setting NTFS security via GPs

User-submitted shortcut that uses plug-ins to help you increase security on system drives and the registry.
Automatically log on to your NT workstation
Re-register Windows Defragmenter
Do you have the TIME?
When hot-swapping, UDMA devices hang a PC
Turn off roaming profile caching

If you use roaming profiles on your network, the hard drive will become cluttered with cached copies.
.Net 's influence on MS certification

Why IT pros should care about .Net and what they will need to know about it.
Full-time Exchange admin jobs hard to find
Restoring registry after disaster

How do you restore your registry after error or disaster? A member shares one method for retrieving that precious backup.
Updating repair information
New boot.ini switchs for Windows 2000
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