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  A place to discuss anything and everything that doesn't have its own forum.
  
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- Career Development
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  This is the place for your feedbacks and requests.
  
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- Server Operating Systems
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- Windows Server 2019
  For questions related to Microsoft's latest server OS
  
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- Windows Server 2016
  For questions related to Microsoft's 2016 server OS
  
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- Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2
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- Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2
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- SBS 2000 / 2003 / 2008 / 2011
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- Client Operating Systems
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- Windows 10
  Discuss Microsoft Windows 10, first version that will run on a wide range of devices, from phones and tablets to PCs and Xbox.
  
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- Windows 8
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- Windows 7
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- Windows 2000 Pro, XP Pro
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- Microsoft Networking and Management Services
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- Active Directory
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- DNS
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- DHCP
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- Intune
  Microsoft’s mobile-device management service.
  
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- System Management
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- Microsoft Teams
  Use this forum to discuss all the latest news and topics related to Microsoft Teams.
  
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- Exchange 2019
  Deals with issues related to Microsoft's latest Exchange server version
  
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  Deals with issues related to Microsoft's 2016 Exchange server version
  
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- Exchange 2007 / 2010 / 2013
  Deals with issues related to Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010/2013
  
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- Exchange 2000 / 2003
  Deals with issues related to Microsoft's Exchange servers
  
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- Skype for Business Server
  A place for all your Skype for Business Server questions.
  
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- Skype – Consumer
  A place for all your Skype for Consumer questions.
  
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- Outlook
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- Cisco Routers & Switches How-to
  Use this forum to post questions regarding Cisco routing and switching solutions
  
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- DSL, Cable, and other Broadband Issues
  Use this forum to post questions regarding the Alcatel, Samsung and other broadband modems, including Wireless access points and routers.
  
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- Cisco Security – PIX/ASA/VPN
  Use this forum to post questions regarding PIX, ASA, VPN and other Cisco security solutions.
  
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- General Networking
  General networking questions that do not fit into one of the more specific forums found on this board.
  
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- Microsoft Virtual Desktop
  Microsoft’s newest client virtualization offering.
  
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- Microsoft Hyper-V Technology
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- Virtual Server & Virtual PC
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- VMware Virtualization
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- Terminal Services
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- Other Virtualization Products and Issues
  Stuff that's not directly related to either Microsoft or VMware virtualization products, such as Oracle Virtual Box, Xen etc.
  
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- Office 365
  Forum for online office suite, software plus services, built around Microsoft Office platform.
  
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- Office 2019
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- Office 2010 / 2013 General Issues
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- Office 2007 General Issues
  For questions related to Microsoft's 2007 Office suite
  
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- Office XP / 2003 General Issues
  Use this forum to post questions regarding the Microsoft Office suite of products.
  
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- Other Microsoft Servers and SaaS
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- SQL Server 2005 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2016
  For issues related to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008/R2, 2012 and 2016.
  
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- SharePoint
  Discussion of a web application framework and platform developed by Microsoft.
  
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- MS Dynamics
  For questions related to Microsoft Dynamics, suite of business solutions from CRM to ERP.
  
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- Microsoft BackOffice – Miscellaneous
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- Windows Subsystem for Linux/Console
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- PowerShell
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- General Scripting
  Scripting (most languages are supported) issues.
  
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- DOS Command Shell
  For good old command line and batch file issues.
  
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- Windows Script Host
  For scripting issues in VBS, JS and other scripting languages.
  
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- Security
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- Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
  For questions related to Microsoft's security suite.
  
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- General Security
  For all Firewall, penetration testing, port scanning tools, sniffers and other general security related issues.
  
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  Freshness: 1 year, 5 months ago – wullieb1
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- Forgot Administrator Password
  Dedicated to discussions about the "forgot administrator password" set of articles.
  
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  Freshness: 1 year, 8 months ago – dgpetri
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- Cloud Computing
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- Microsoft Azure
  Covers cloud computing platform and infrastructure from Microsoft.
  
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- Amazon Web Services
  For AWS, collection of remote web services offered by Amazon.com, including EC2 and Amazon S3.
  
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- Google Cloud Platform
  Discussion about Google's portfolio of highly-scalable cloud computing products.
  
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- VMware Cloud
  VMware Cloud from VMware provides the power of the cloud with the flexibility allowed by virtualization.
  
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  Freshness: 6 years, 5 months ago – vikramsaini
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- Other Cloud Services
  Questions and answers about all other cloud services (i.e., but not limited to, Google Apps/Docs, DropBox, Box.net, etc.)
  
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  Freshness: 1 year, 1 month ago – mandb241
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- Other
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- General Hardware
  A place for any hardware-specific question or discussion, mostly server hardware issues
  
  Topics: 413
  
  Posts: 2,668
  
  Freshness: 11 months ago – leeSophia
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- Misc
  Hardware, software and stuff that doesn't fit into any of the available categories.
  
  Topics: 2,813
  
  Posts: 11,213
  
  Freshness: 1 year, 3 months ago – Kyuuketsuki
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- Open Source
  For issues related to open source and non-Microsoft issues.
  
  Topics: 49
  
  Posts: 223
  
  Freshness: 1 year, 1 month ago – Anonymous
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