All we did today was take the midterm exam. Hopefully everyone got big, fat A’s on them!
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Just the midterm exam! That’s it!
And I’m sure some inappropriate jokes were made today too.
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Just the midterm exam today, hope you guys did well!
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Since this is a very cool week for me, I’m going to do something very cool for you.
Here’s a study guide for the test tomorrow.
Enjoy!
All we did today was the midterm! Hope you enjoyed it! (HA!)
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Just the midterm!
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Nothing but the midterm exam today. See you guys next week!
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Today we finished up the “computer literacy” portion of class by talking about how to evaluate computers and decide what would work best for you. Chances are most, if not all, of you will be purchasing computers sometime in the next decade and figuring out which system will best suit your needs.
Next week, you will be having the midterm exam, covering the first four chapters of the book. In all likelihood, I will not be here, but don’t sweat it — I’ll have someone here to administer the test. After the test is finished, you’ll be free to go. Make sure you study chapters 1-4!!
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Today we covered Chapters 5 and 6, dealing with Recipient Objects and Address Lists and Public Folders respectively.
Recipient objects are just fancy ways of saying people or things that can get mail. These can include AD users, AD groups, outside contacts (think people who don’t work at your company), and public folders (next chapter).
After discussing the handling of recipient objects, we moved on to discussing the day-to-day activities of managing e-mail boxes (using the Exchange Tasks context menu item) and that discussion led us to group types and scopes. Remember in previous classes talking about the two types of groups: security and distribution groups, and how we only use distribution groups to organize users for communication, but almost always, we’ll set up a security group? Well, here we are in Exchange class, and now is the time we’ll be using Distribution groups. Note that security groups can also be mail-enabled, so it’s still possible that you’ll never have a distribution group even if you’re using Exchange. To wind things up for this chapter, we discussed recipient policies.
The next chapter covered Public Folders. Public folders basically work like private, enterprise-wide (if you want them to be) newsgroups. Think of it as a bulletin board for your users to use for communication. Honestly, Sharepoint or Google Wave could be more useful in some settings, but it’s here. A great use of this would be for your HR department to have access to a folder where they can upload employee handbooks, employee policies, etc, for everyone to see on a Read Only basis. To use public folders, you must have the NNTP service running.
A nice thing about Public Folders is that they can be configured to be accessible from a web browser. We accomplish this by setting up a Virtual Directory for the folder and then IIS takes over and makes the information available on the web server that is hosting the directory.
You may have noticed that today’s content is a little deeper than what we had originally planned. I will be out all of next week, and so to stay on track, we doubled up today. Next week, there will be a midterm exam that will cover Chapters 01-06. You of course will be allowed to use your textbooks for the exam. After you finish the test next week, you’ll be free to go. When I get back the week after, we’ll hit the ground running for Chapter 7.
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Today we covered TCP/IP utilities, which basically meant we stayed inside command prompt and issued a bunch of commands that help us stay on top of our networks. The commands we covered: ping, tracert, arp, netstat, nbtstat, ftp, ipconfig/winipcfg and nslookup.
We also discussed the plans for next week: I will not be here and so we will be having the midterm exam one week earlier than indicated on the syllabus. Since I will not be here and only a test proctor will be present it is IMPERATIVE!!! that you arrive on time!!! You will be responsible if you miss the proctor (and therefore the test) and will have to take a harder “retest” with a 10% missed attendance hit. So PLEASE make sure you’re here on time!
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