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Unlike Microsoft® Exchange Server 2000, Microsoft® Small Business Server 2000 (SBS) offers users the possibility to receive mail from remote mailboxes via POP3 protocol. This feature is implemented via Connector for POP3 mailboxes (CPM has nothing to do with someday-popular operating system). We will not focus on Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 lacking this feature, as well as other third party solutions available. Instead, we will review this tool in comparison with Native POP3 Connector for Exchange 2000 (NPC).

This article describes how to install a software product to a group of users of a corporate network with domain structure under Microsoft® Windows 2000 or Microsoft® Windows 2003.

Nowadays, a lot of sites offer visitors the opportunity to sign-up for company public distribution lists. However, along with public distribution lists, a company often needs to organize additional non-public lists under one of their employee’s charges.

Both technical and organizational problems may occur with creating such lists — for example, in order to create such a list, a hidden section needs to be created on the company website. A section that will contain information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe to the list; invariably, the list created will need to have been created by the site administrator who will then need to give the relevant person the necessary tool access to manage the said section.

The process of message delivery by a mail server consists of two phases. First, it detects the address of the mail server that receives messages for the recipient (RS). Then, it connects to that server using SMTP protocol and transmits the message to it.

The co-authorship mechanism was introduced with the release of MS Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The new functionality has been called "long-awaited" by many, and there is no point undervaluing its convenience. However, this article refers to functional details of the mechanism and to possible benefits. After all, this is a whole new area!

This article describes how to avoid security prompts in Visual Basic programs for Microsoft Outlook, using the MAPI subsystem and without using any third-party libraries. An overview of existing third-party libraries for MAPI is provided. The article is intended for experienced Visual Basic 5.x/6.x and Visual Basic .NET software developers.