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How to Create a Wiki Using Sharepoint

Create a wiki site
Before creating a site, make sure that you are at the location on your site where you want to create a new subsite.
- Click View All Site Content, and then click Create on the All Site Content page.
- Tip In most cases, you can use the Site Actions menu instead to complete this step.
- Under Web Pages, click Sites and Workspaces.
- In the Title and Description section, type a title for your wiki site. The title is required.
- The title appears at the top of the Web page and appears in navigational elements that help users to find and open the site.
How To: 550 Authentication is required for relay
The reason for this error is that your email server requires SMTP Authentication to send outgoing mail. In order to resolve this issue you will need to configure your email client such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, or Thunderbird so, that you are an authenticated user.
For Outlook do the following:
- Click on the Tools menu
- Click on Email Accounts
- Click View or change existing e-mail accounts then click Next
- Highlight an email account and click Change
- Click More Settings
- Click Outgoing Server tab
- Check the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
- Make sure that Use same setting as my incoming mail server is selected
- Click OK
- Click Next
- Click Finish and your done
Compliance requirements for email and messaging: Does my company need it?
What do organizations need in order to make e-mail communications compliant? The most important component is a corporate e-mail policy. Based on relevant laws for their industry, compliance or risk officers should create corporate messaging policies that include compliance measures.
In addition to compliance with external legislation, companies also need to mitigate the risk of corporate liability and financial loss resulting from improper e-mail usage and lack of retention policies for corporate communications. Leveraging best practices and legal guidelines, organizations need to create and enforce corporate e-mail and messaging policies that address areas of potential liability such as: disclosure or transfer of intellectual assets, discrimination, harassment, client/attorney privilege, and other measures of due diligence protection against criminal and civil liability.
Compliance officers will find that most laws and corporate guidelines require the following e-mail capabilities in order to ensure compliance with e-mail policies:
Outlook Contacts Tips and Tricks
Had a client today asking about all the ways you can manage contacts in outlook. We had a nice 20 minute discussion. I told him I would see if I could find any additional information about contacts ont the web and post it to our blog. Therefore after a little searching on youtube, I came up with this great tutorial on the powerful contact feature in outlook. i hope you all find this usefull!!



What is Server Virtualization
One of the hottest concepts recently in managed services and IT utilization is server virtualization. Here is a great clip that reviews the technology and does a great job at explaining how it works and what it is.