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StoragePoint BLOBulator Tool

The StoragePoint BLOBulator is a free tool that lets you estimate by how much you can shrink your Microsoft SharePoint content database(s) by off-loading BLOBs to alternative storage.



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Resource Central ROI Calculation

Try our ROI calculator and gain an estimate of how much time and money Resource Central can save your organisation, by effectively managing meeting rooms and other resources.



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Trouble-shooting Outlook issues

MFCMAPI is a very deep investigation and development aid. It uses Microsoft's published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a GUI that can display all the folders and subfolders in any message store. Capabilities include checking permissions, converting message formats, viewing attachments, and much more.



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Planning your Exchange 2010 Implementation

The Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant can be used during the pre-deployment phase to ensure that you consider all prerequisites that are required to install Exchange 2010.   It's relevant if you're upgrading from an earlier version of Exchange too.



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Troubleshooting external Exchange server connectivity issues

Originally written by a Microsoft engineer and continually updated, this public web site can be used to test things such as Exchange ActiveSync issues, Outlook Anywhere, and incoming SMTP mail.




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