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How to send a personalized e-mail to many people at once from Outlook 2007 First of all, this post is dedicated to my aunt Gayla who runs a small business and has a lot of trouble with this feature. This post is not dedicated to spammers who might use this feature for spamming. ;) Mail merge is a feature of Outlook and Word that allows you to send a set of contacts a personalized e-mail as though they are the only person receiving the e-mail. With this feature, you can personalize the e-mail so that each of your recipients is the only person on the To: line and that the contents of the e-mail change based on information you have for each contact. Instead of starting the e-mail with “To whom it may concern,” you can have Outlook and Word automatically fill in the e-mail with your recipient’s name (e.g. “Dear Vicky,”). Mail merge in Outlook is pretty   hidden – most people don’t even know that you can send a personalized e-mail to each contact in a set of contacts the way you can pr...

Question: How to take backup of outlook address from stand alone PC? Answer: Outlook address file is stored with  ".nk2" extension. The storage path for these files are as follow: Under Windows xp: C:\Documents and Settings\User a/c\Application Data\Microsoft\outlook\ Under Windows Vista and Windows 7 C:\Users\User a/c\roaming\microsoft\outlook\ files are *.nk2 and *.srs While taking data backup you should take these file.

Network diagram Figure 1-2  Network diagram for LLDP compatible with CDP configuration Network requirements l            GigabitEthernet 2/0/1 and GigabitEthernet 2/0/2 of Switch A are each connected to a Cisco IP phone. l            Configure voice VLAN 2 on Switch A. Enable CDP compatibility of LLDP on Switch A to allow the Cisco IP phones to automatically configure the voice VLAN, thus confining their voice traffic within the voice VLAN to be isolated from other types of traffic.

LLDP The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) operates on the data link layer. It stores and maintains information about the local device and the devices directly connected to it for network administrators to manage networks through NMS (network management systems). In LLDP, device information is encapsulated in LLDPDUs in the form of TLV (meaning type, length, and value) triplets and is exchanged between directly connected devices. Information in LLDPDUs received is stored in standard MIB (management information base). Configuring LLDP Network Diagram Figure 1-1  Network diagram for LLDP configuration Networking and Configuration Requirements l            As shown in  Figure 1-1 , connect NMS to Switch A over the Ethernet; and connect Switch A to the MED device and Switch B through GigabitEthernet 1/0/1 and GigabitEthernet 1/0/2 respectively. l            Configure LLDP on th...

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Fix for Firefox & IE Address Bar to Prevent OpenDNS From Redirecting Google Search pages Like everyone else, I search the web from the browser address bar and have set Google as the default search engine in both Firefox and IE. I also use OpenDNS for DNS Sounds like a perfect combination but a side effect of using OpenDNS is that you can no longer search Google from Firefox location bar or the address bar of Internet Explorer.

  We  love OpenDNS  but for one annoying feature where OpenDNS automatically redirects typos and invalid URLs to their own ad-filled search pages as in this screenshot. Let me explain - if you type a non-existent web domain in your web browser (e.g. gmail.coms instead of gmail.com), you'll land up on OpenDNS search page and won't see the default "Address Not Found" error in your browser.