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Autodiscovery for Exchange automatically configures Exchange client's profiles to connect to your Exchange environment. Microsoft provides a nice website to test this connectivity.

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Windows Firewall helps keep bad stuff out of your system. In this video, Senior Technical Instructor Doug Bassett show how to properly configure filters.

Video Runtime: 5 minutes
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MAC addresses are critical for network communications. In this video, Senior Technical Instructor Doug Bassett explains what they are and how they work.

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Disk drives are cheap and, unfortunately, slow. In this video Technical Instructor Mike Vasquez explains how to get the most out of this critical equipment.

This is an example of the real-world, online HD certification training done at StormWind.com.

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IPv6 uses hexadecimal for addressing. Since IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long, this can make for a lot to type. In this video, Doug Bassett explains the shorthand notation for IPv6.

This is an example of the real-world, online HD certification training done at StormWind.com.

Video Runtime: 18 minutes
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Hyper-V uses a variety of disk types that can be a bit overwhelming. In this video, Doug Bassett explains how disks work in Hyper-V. Doug also show the various configuration options.

This is an example of the real-world, online HD certification training done at StormWind.com.

Running Winodws operating systems on an Apple machine just got a little bit harder, and easier, all at once.

Apple has released Boot Camp Support Software 5. This allows you to run Windows as well as Mountain Lion, at the same time. This is great for developers, as well as for running those apps that aren't yet supported on Apple.

On Friday, Microsoft suffered a 9 HOUR outage that affected Microsoft Azure and Xbox Live. This brought down a variety of services. Who was a culprit? It was an expired SSL digital certificate.

Digital certificates are used to create an encrypted communications path. You use these any time you type HTTPS:// as opposed to HTTP://. The certificates help with identifying the server and are managed by a CA. These certificates have a defined life time and, like a driver’s license, expire.

John Saville released a video on YouTube where he talks about his favorite features of Windows 2012. He does a great job of explaining why 2012 is an OUTSTANDING OS.

 

The video is about an hour and a half long. He does a great job showing some of the incredible features of Windows 2012.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9y4mhkQo50

 

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DNS is awesome! But what do you do when the resource isn't registered? Also, how can you use host files to block unwanted sites? Doug explains all!