Office 2010 – Features

Development of Office 2010 started in 2006 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 12, released as Microsoft Office 2007. It was previously thought that Office 2010 (then called Office 14) would ship in the first half of 2009; however it is officially announced that Office 2010 will ship in 2010.
Microsoft also officially confirmed that the business launch for Office 2010 is on May 12. Consumers will not be able to purchase the product until June. In January Microsoft announced Office 2010 pricing. Office 2010 will be released in at least five different flavors, including a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements. The editions of Office 2010 will include Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional and Professional Academic.

Features -
Microsoft Office 2010 will include updated support for the ISO/IEC compliant version of OOXML, which was standardized as ISO/IEC 29500:2008 in March 2008. The intent of the ISO/IEC is to allow the removal of the Transitional variant from the ISO/IEC compliant version of the OOXML standard.

New features are also said to include a built-in screen capture tool, a background removal tool, a protected document mode, new SmartArt templates and author permissions. Confirmed features of Office 2010 include:
• Refined Ribbon interface and Backstage View across all applications
• Background Removal Tool
• Letter Styling
• The Word 2007 Equation editor will become common to all applications, replacing MS Equation 3.0
• New SmartArt templates
• New text and image editing effects
• Screen Capturing and Clipping tools
• Live collaboration functions
• Jumplists in Windows 7
• New animations in Powerpoint 2010
Office Mobile 2010 Features include –
Presentation Companion
Conversation View
SharePoint Workspace Mobile
Support for new content in Office 2010
It is unknown if Microsoft will release an upgrade to Office 2010 for existing Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5.

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Terminal Server – What is it?

Terminal Server is the server component of Terminal services (now known as Remote Desktop Services). Terminal Server handles the job of authenticating clients, as well as making the applications available remotely. It is also entrusted with the job of restricting the clients according to the level of access they have.
The Terminal Server respects the configured software restriction policies, so as to restrict the availability of certain software to only a certain group of users. The remote session information is stored in specialized directories, called Session Directory which is stored at the server. Session directories are used to store state information about a session, and can be used to resume interrupted sessions. The terminal server also has to manage these directories. Terminal Servers can be used in a cluster as well.

More on terminal servers in the upcoming posts……

Learn How to Install Windows Server 2003 on Your Own

Due to the large number of functionalities like improved security, reliability, and scalability etc offered by Microsoft in its Windows Server 2003 operating system., I planned to install it in my system. I took assistance from a remote technical support company, which helped me in this process as well as explained me the entire process of installation.

Features

Windows Server 2003 is integrated with many new features like improved security features, because of the built-in firewall. It consists of an enhanced version of IIS and improvement to Message Queuing. Further as well as contains an administrative tool that offers the management facility to administrator.
Windows Server 2003 has a backup system to bring back lost files. This server operating system is improved in many aspects like Active Directory, Group Policy handling and administration, disk management, etc. In addition to this, it contains many command line tools, and can restart the server in a situation when operating system stops responding.

Usability

Here are the steps used in the process of installation:
STEP 1: Start your computer with Windows Server 2003 CD inserted into the CD drive.
STEP 2: Press any key to boot from the CD.
STEP 3: You will be prompted with the “Welcome to Setup” screen, press “Enter” key to continue.
STEP 4: Read and accept the license terms and conditions.
STEP 5: Press Esc button and create primary partition by pressing C key and typing the size.
STEP 6: Press Enter to install and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation process.
See how simple it is! I analyzed that the entire process was very simple and I could do it myself too. Hats off to the experts at the remote tech support company, who not only did it for me but also explained the process to me so that I am capable of installing Windows Server 2003 on my own.

How to manually configure Windows Server using User Control Panel?

Microsoft had launched a Windows series for server operating system. Windows Server service can automatically set itself, but you can also manually configure it with the use of Control Panel.
Every time you boot Windows, server configuration parameters are automatically configured. However, if you do not want to set Server with the use of Control Panel Networks, then you have to run certain commands so that default parameters are written to the registry.
When you run the command “NET CONFIG SRV /SRVCOMMENT Windows will not change the calculated value of automatically set entries. In this way, it can be said that once you have run the above mentioned command, you become unable to add or remove system memory, or to modify any server size setting.
In case you want to view configuration information about the server, you can use the command “NET CONFIG SERVER.” This command will only display the information without doing any modification. There are some Server service support information levels, which let you configure every parameter individually.
The command “NET CONFIG SRV /HIDDEN” make use of information level 1016 in order to set the hidden parameter. Another command “NET.EXE” queries and sets information levels 102 and 502. After you run the given commands, all the parameters in the information level will set in the registry.
Once the parameters are set in the registry, the commands “SRVMGR.EXE” and the Control Panel Server query will set only level 102. If you are an administrator and want to modify the auto disconnect value, then you should not use the commands mentioned above. You should use “REGEDT32.EXE” for performing some specific modifications.
You can easily modify the server comment with the use of description field of the Control Panel Server applet or Server Manager. In case you want to modify the registry, you have to first take its backup for protection. Follow the given steps for restoring the LAN Manager Server parameters to the defaults, or to reconfigure Windows so that it auto-configures the Server service:
STEP 1: Run Registry Editor (REGEDT32.EXE).
STEP 2: From the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following key:
\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
STEP 3: Remove all the entries except the following:
EnableSharedNetDrives
Lmannounce
NullSessionPipes
NullSessionShares
Size
STEP 4: Quit Registry Editor and restart Windows.

Conversion of Primary DNS Server to an Active Directory Integrated Primary Server

Every website on Internet has a unique URL, which locates the website. The URL consist of the domain name, which is converted into the corresponding IP address with the help of DNS server.
You can also convert your Primary DNS server to an Active Directory Integrated Primary server, instead of adding secondary DNS servers. The concept behind adding secondary DNS server is to avoid any failure. With the following steps you can convert Primary DNS Server to Active Directory Integrated Primary server on Windows Server 2003:
STEP 1: On the current DNS server, start DNS Manager.
STEP 2: Right-click a DNS zone, click Properties, click the General tab, and then note the Type value. This will be Primary zone, Secondary zone or Stub zone.
STEP 3: Click Change.
STEP 4: In the Change Zone Type box, click to select the “Store the zone” in Active Directory check box. When you are prompted to answer whether want this zone to become Active Directory integrated, click Yes, and then click OK.
When you complete all the steps, then in the Domain properties, type will be shown as "Active Directory-Integrated". You can supplement other DNS servers in the domain controller after its replication becomes complete. So, in this way you can supplement other DNS servers, which lead to removal of any point of failure.

Remote Support Services

Remote support services are an array of technical services offered through the Internet. Many technical service providers offer remote support for a range of services. Your system should have an Internet connection in order to utilize remote support services.

Services offered through remote support are enlisted below:

· Software installation

· Virus removal

· Windows upgrades

· System tune-up and routine maintenance to speed up the computer

· Configuring settings for e-mail, or Internet, or Microsoft Office

· Removal of spyware applications

· Troubleshooting

· Internet optimization

· Support for peripheral devices

Along with these services, remote support provides you many benefits. Most important benefit is the availability; you can access remote support from anywhere in the world. You do not have to take your system to any service provider, and no need to call someone at your premises.

You just have to contact any technical service provider, and your issue gets resolved. A technician from your service provider will access your system via remote connection. After that, he will diagnose the issue that is not letting your system perform better and fix it simultaneously.

So, it is viable to say that remote support services are much better than traditional services. You just have to pay once and get access to a wide variety of services through remote support.