As the number of employee weblogs (also known as blogs) hosted on corporate websites increases, the line between the personal and corporate blogger begins to blur. By nature, blogs reflect the views of the human blogger. Blogs are participatory, in that they can be read and commented on by anyone. When commented upon, they also reflect the views of the reader. The Internet is their playground and the blogosphere is their community. Bloggers live by their own code of ethics, whereby their community determines the creditability of blog postings. Such is the culture of a participatory environment.

In this article I will provide a short description on how to telnet to port 25 on a computer/server that runs Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) services to troubleshoot SMTP communication problems. The below information is useful while attempting to resolve SMTP communication issues with MS Exchange based servers.

Most of the users do not know that in Microsoft Outlook the storage limit for a single user's .PST file (the file used as Outlook's message database) is 2 GB. If a .PST file exceeds to over 2 GB, it can become damaged and some mail items may be lost.

In the early 2000s, a grassroots movement drove public network instant messaging (IM) into the enterprise. Informal IM-driven business networks matured, as IM joined email to become a transport for B2B and B2C business.

Yet, many businesses have neglected to apply the “lessons learned” in managing insecure email to insecure IM – they choose the ostrich approach. Six years later, IM is mainstreaming, and businesses are taking their heads out of the sand.

Cached Exchange Mode is a new great feature in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Cached Exchange Mode permits Outlook 2003 to use a local copy of a user's mailbox while Outlook 2003 maintains an online connection to a remote copy of the user's mailbox in Microsoft Exchange 2003.  

In any single day, millions of e-mail messages are sent and received within and outside of the organization – and, near daily, the press and broadcast media details the latest scandal to be uncovered through an e-mail message.

When Microsoft unveiled its .NET platform a few years back, there were naysayers who doubted its viability. Today, .NET-based applications are enabling IT departments to easily integrate disparate applications, reduce turnaround time and increase productivity. In fact, forward-thinking IT pros are harnessing the power of .NET by targeting existing technologies, such as fax,and transforming them into powerful business transaction tools that deliver necessary business documents at Internet speed.

Tom Linhard, President of FaxCore, takes us through the reasons why the fax is very much an integral part of today’s business landscape, rather than the IT dinosaur that many of us believed it to be.

No matter what the size of your organization or industry, reliable, efficient and cost-effective communication tools are essential for running a profitable and customer-service oriented business. While many organizations use email, smart organizations still rely heavily on fax for their vital business communications. It remains the most universally accessible, reliable and secure method of document delivery available.