Exam 70-333 Deploying Enterprise Voice with Skype for Business 2015 (beta)

Published: July 31, 2015
Languages: English
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Skype for Business
Credit toward certification: MCSE

Skills measured
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Plan and design Skype for Business with Enterprise Voice (30-35%)
Design Enterprise Voice topology
Design mediation server collocation or placement, gateways, trunks, voice resiliency, mediation server dependencies, voice usage and traffic, DNS, and phone configuration
Design call routing and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) connectivity
Design dial plans, routes, including location-based routing, normalization, voice policies, basic emergency dialing and notification, PSTN usage, and trunk configuration; design for call via work; define SIP trunk capacity requirements; design multiple media gateway support, trunk configuration; define outbound translation rules, inbound dial plan; qualify technology options from UCOIP
Design voice applications
Design call park, Response Group, delegation model, Response Group workflows; design private line and vacant number announcements
Design unified messaging (UM)
Design UM dial plans, normalization rules, UM auto-attendant, subscriber access, UM outbound dialing, and UM placement and capacity for on-premises and online
Plan for network readiness and optimization
Assess network requirements including Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), virtual private network (VPN), multiple MPLS providers including ExpressRoute providers, asymmetric links, point-to-point wireless, internal NAT, TCP vs. UDP, and signaling vs. media traffic; plan for optimal conferencing traffic, capacity, Edge placement, assess QoS readiness including traffic policing and traffic shaping impact on RTC, DSCP, port based, scavenger class, best effort traffic class, and separate/converged networks; estimate network usage; analyze media scenarios for conference, peer-to-peer, PSTN, and capture traces for max jitter, average jitter, peak consecutive packet loss, average packet loss, and one-way network delay
Design network services for Enterprise Voice
Design Location Information Services (LIS) and Call Admission Control (CAC); plan for Media Bypass; design for QoS including port requirements for internal and external services; design and forecast network needs for sizing ExpressRoute
Model and analyze Skype for Business traffic per site
Predict and calculate service needs and growth, compare how different personas impact network requirements, and calibrate usage models based on customer usage and business requirements, including web, audio and video conferencing, PSTN, and peer-to peer calls; adjust business requirements, adjust network components (topology, capacity), and limit traffic volume or modify solution design; calculate traffic volume by using the Skype for Business bandwidth calculator for branch traffic, central site traffic, and remote user traffic
Analyze policies and historical data network usage
Analyze Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on network infrastructure, analyze impact of security policies, including firewalls, VPN tunnels, remote access, Direct Access, NAT, and Private VLANs, and assess appropriateness of current QoS policies for Skype for Business, average usage, peak usage, average drop, and peak packet loss; analyze historical call quality data; analyze bandwidth requirements for Skype for Business Online
Plan and analyze simulation traffic results, and make recommendations
Design site traffic generator endpoint placement/location, design site traffic generator transaction path, and design site traffic generator transaction volume per path; interpret baseline network characteristics and any variations, analyze simulation results in the context of a network (topology, QoS); recommend network reconfigurations, recommend modifications for QoS approach, and explain impact of observed network characteristics, including latency, packet loss, jitter, and bandwidth usage

Deploy and configure Enterprise Voice (30-35%)
Configure network services for Enterprise Voice
Configure Location Information Services (LIS), Call Admission Control (CAC) for voice, Call Admission Control (CAC) for video, DHCP for phone edition, QOS, and media bypass; configure ExpressRoute for Office 365
Configure voice applications
Configure call park, Response Group workflows, Response Group queues, private line, and vacant number announcements, configure delegation; configure and enable PSTN Conferencing with ACP, Cloud PBX, PSTN Calling, Hybrid Voice infrastructure; port phone numbers to Microsoft as the carrier; configure users with cloud phone numbers
Configure call routing
Configure dial plans, routes, and trunks; apply voice policies, PSTN usages, and emergency dialing; call via work
Configure unified messaging (UM) for Skype for Business and Cloud Voicemail
Configure UM dial plans, the normalization rules, UM auto-attendant, subscriber access, and call answering rules; configure DNS records; configure Edge Server for integration with Office 365; manage and assign Hosted Voice Mail policies; enable users for Hosted Voice Mail; create Contact Objects for Hosted Voice Mail; configure Skype for Business Online Enterprise Voice users to have Cloud Voicemail
Configure Enterprise Voice client features
Configure delegation, simultaneous ring, team calling, and group call pickup, shared line appearance, call via work

Manage and troubleshoot Enterprise Voice (30-35%)
Troubleshoot call setup and teardown
Troubleshoot Skype for Business Server and Skype for Business Online internal phone calls (PC to PC), external phone calls (PC to Public Switched Telephone Network [PSTN]), inbound and outbound routing, network configuration, and internal and external clients; call via work
Troubleshoot Enterprise Voice quality issues
Analyze Call Detail Recording/ Quality of Experience (CDR/QOE) logs, analyze call flow by using Snooper, analyze call data quality using call quality methodology (CQM), troubleshoot third-party devices, QOS, and network bandwidth; analyze rate my call results; analyze and troubleshoot issues with Skype for Business Online Enterprise Voice users
Troubleshoot Enterprise Voice configuration
Analyze dial plans (normalization, translation), analyze session management (trunk routing); analyze policies, routes, and usages; troubleshoot external connectivity (gateways, SBA, PBX, SBC, PSTN) and media bypass; call admission control (CAC); call via work; troubleshoot delegation, simultaneous ring, team calling, and group call pickup; number porting
Troubleshoot and analyze Enterprise Voice applications
Troubleshoot call park, Response Groups, unassigned numbers, Exchange voicemail, and LIS and emergency calling implementation
Troubleshoot universal communications (UC) devices and peripherals
Troubleshoot device update issues, device connectivity issues (LPE + 3PIP), PIN authentication issues, peripherals, and VDI plug-in device pairing
Monitor and manage Skype for Business
Monitor call quality dashboard, monitoring server reports, QoE, synthetic transactions, and server health; monitor Rate My Call results

Who should take this exam?
Candidates for this exam are IT consultants and telecommunications consulting professionals who design, plan, deploy, and maintain solutions for unified communications (UC). Candidates should be able to translate business requirements into technical architecture and design for a UC solution. Candidates should have a minimum of two years of experience with Skype for Business technologies and be familiar with supported migration scenarios. Candidates should be proficient in deploying Skype for Business Server and Skype for Business Online solutions for end users, endpoint devices, telephony, audio/video and web conferences, security, and high availability. Candidates should also know how to monitor and troubleshoot Skype for Business using Microsoft tools. In addition, candidates should be proficient with Active Directory Domain Services, data networks, and telecommunications standards and components that support the configuration of Skype for Business. Candidates should be familiar with the requirements for integrating Skype for Business with Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365.

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Exam 70-383 Recertification for MCSE: SharePoint

Published: January 6, 2016
Languages: English, German, Japanese
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: SharePoint Server 2013
Credit toward certification: MCP, MCSE

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Design a SharePoint topology
Design an information architecture
Design inter-site navigational taxonomy; design site columns and content types; design keywords, synonyms, best bets, and managed properties; plan information management policies; plan managed site structures; plan term sets
Design a logical architecture
Plan application pools; plan web applications; plan for software boundaries; plan content databases; plan host-header site collections; plan zones and alternate access mapping
Plan SharePoint Online (Office 365) deployment
Evaluate service offerings; plan service applications; plan hybrid search scenarios; plan site collections; plan customizations and solutions; plan security for SharePoint Online; plan for SharePoint Online admin roles; plan networking services for SharePoint Online

Plan security
Plan and configure authentication
Plan and configure Windows claims authentication; plan and configure identity federation; configure claims providers; configure OAuth authentication; plan and configure for anonymous authentication; configure connections to ACS
Plan and configure platform security
Plan and configure security isolation; plan and configure services lockdown; plan and configure general firewall security; plan and configure antivirus settings; plan and configure certificate management
Plan and configure farm-level security
Plan rights management; plan and configure delegated farm administration; plan and configure delegated service application administration; plan and configure managed accounts; plan and configure blocked file types; plan and configure web part security

Install and configure SharePoint farms
Create and configure enterprise search
Plan and configure search topology; plan and configure result sources; plan and configure crawl schedules; plan and configure crawl rules; plan and configure crawl performance
Create and configure Managed Metadata Service application (MMS)
Configure managed service application proxy settings; configure content type hub settings; configure sharing term sets; plan and configure content type propagation schedule; configure custom properties; configure term store permission
Create and configure User Profile Service application (UPA)
Configure UPA application; setup My Sites and My Site hosts; configure social permissions; plan and configure sync connections; configure profile properties; configure audiences

Create and configure web applications and site collections
Provision and configure web applications
Create managed paths; configure HTTP throttling; configure List throttling; configure Alternate Access Mappings (AAM); configure authentication provider; configure SharePoint Designer settings
Manage search
Manage result sources; manage query rules; manage display templates; manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) settings; manage result types; manage search schema
Manage taxonomy
Manage site collection term set access; manage term set navigation; manage topic catalog pages; configure custom properties; configure search refinement; configure list refinement

Maintain core SharePoint environment
Troubleshoot SharePoint environment
Establish baseline performance; perform client-side tracing; perform server-side tracing; analyze usage data; enable developer dashboard; analyze diagnostic logs

Plan business continuity management
Plan for SQL high availability and disaster recovery
Plan for SQL Server clustering; plan for SQL Server Always-On; plan for SQL Server Log Shipping; plan for SQL Server mirroring; plan for storage redundancy; plan for login replication

Plan SharePoint environment
Plan and configure search workload
Plan and configure search result relevancy; plan and configure index freshness; plan and configure result sources; plan and configure end-user experience; plan and configure search schema; analyze search analytics reports; plan and configure result throttling
Plan ECM workload
Plan and configure E-Discovery; plan and configure document routing; configure co-authoring; plan and configure record disposition and retention; plan large document repositories; plan and configure software boundaries

Upgrade and migrate SharePoint environment
Upgrade site collection
Perform health check; analyze and resolve health check results; plan and configure available site collection modes; plan and configure site collection upgrade availability; plan and configure EVAL mode; plan and configure site collection upgrade throttling

Create and configure service applications
Create and configure App Management
Create and configure App Store; create and configure subscriptions; configure marketplace connections; configure DNS entries; configure wildcard certificates
Configure service application federation
Plan services to federate; perform certificate exchange; manage trusts; manage service application permissions; publish service applications; consume service applications

Manage SharePoint solutions, BI, and systems integration
Plan and configure BI infrastructure
Plan and configure performance point; plan and configure reporting services; plan and configure PowerPivot; plan and configure Excel Services; plan and configure Power View; plan and configure BI security
Question No : 1 - (Topic 1)
You need to implement corporate sizing and performance guidelines for general usage scenarios.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)

A. For the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) storage subsystem on network attached storage
(NAS), limit the maximum time-to-first-byte (TTFB) of any response from the NAS to 100 milliseconds.

B. Limit the maximum size of each content database to 4 TB.

C. For the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) storage subsystem on network attached storage
(NAS), limit the maximum time-to-first-byte (TTFB) of any response from the NAS to 20 milliseconds.

D. Limit the number of documents in each document library to 20 million.

E. Limit the number of documents in each content database to 10 million.

F. Limit the maximum size of each content database to 200 GB.

Answer: C,E,F


Question No : 2 - (Topic 1)
You need to ensure that service applications meet the technical requirements by using the least amount of administrative effort.
What should you do?

A. Use the Farm Configuration Wizard to add service applications.
B. Use Windows PowerShell to configure service applications.
C. Use the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard to complete the server configuration.
D. In Central Administration, manually create each service application.

Answer: B

Question No : 3 - (Topic 1)
You need to ensure that content authors can publish the specified files.
What should you do?

A. Create multiple authoring site collections. Create a site that contains lists, document
libraries, and a Pages library. Create an asset library in a new site collection, and enable
anonymous access to the library on the publishing web application.

B. Create multiple authoring site collections. Create a site that contains lists, document
libraries, and a Pages library. Create an asset library in the authoring site collection, and
enable anonymous access to the library on the authoring web application.

C. Create one authoring site collection. Create a site that contains multiple lists, document
libraries, and Pages libraries. Create an asset library in a new site collection, and enable
anonymous access to the library on the publishing web application.

D. Create multiple authoring site collections. Create a site that contains multiple lists,
document libraries, and Pages libraries. Create an asset library in a new site collection, and
enable anonymous access to the library on the publishing web application.

Answer: B

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Exam MB6-702 Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Financials

Published: December 23, 2014
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Microsoft Dynamics AX
Credit toward certification: Specialist

Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. View video tutorials about the variety of question types on Microsoft exams.

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Certification program.

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Configure Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 (25–30%)
Set up the General Ledger, chart of accounts, and journals
Create a chart of accounts; create and categorize main accounts; identify main account types; create financial dimensions and dimension sets; configure account structures; create advanced rule structures; create organizational units and hierarchies; create fiscal calendars, years, and periods; create date intervals; create reason codes; define journal names; define allocation rules and allocation basis; create system accounts; create journal texts; set up intercompany accounting; define General Ledger parameters
Define cash and bank management and procedures
Create bank transaction types and groups; define bank parameters; create payment purpose codes, bank groups, and bank accounts; define check layouts
Set up Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
Create payment schedules and terms, create a payment day, define cash discounts and payment fees, create payment methods, create vendor accounts, create vendor groups, define vendor posting profiles, assign a vendor posting profile, form setup and print management, define matching policies and tolerances, create charges and charge groups, define aging periods
Set up currencies and sales tax
Set up currencies, currency types, and exchange rates; create ledger posting groups; create sales tax authorities; create sales tax settlement periods; create sales tax codes; create sales tax groups; set up item sales tax groups; set up a sales tax jurisdiction

Manage Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 (25–30%)
Manage General Ledger daily and periodic procedures
Create a General Ledger journal, post multiple journals, approve journals, create a voucher template, create a periodic journal, reverse a General Ledger transaction, manage journal transaction inquiries and reports, create journal controls, revalue foreign currency, process financial consolidation, post a sales tax payment
Manage Accounts Payable daily and periodic procedures
Create vendor invoices, create invoice journals, revalue foreign currency, generate vendor payments, manage vendor postdated checks
Manage Accounts Receivable daily and periodic procedures
Create customer invoices, create free text invoices, revalue foreign currency, apply customer payments, manage customer collections
Manage commitment accounting and cash flow
Configure dependent ledger accounts, set up cash flow forecasting, define a cash flow forecast budget model, create and calculate cash flow transactions
Manage advanced payments
Set up bridge accounts, manage electronic vendor and customer payments, manage centralized payments and prepayments (deposits), administer a bill of exchange, manage direct debit mandates
Maintain bank accounts
Checks and deposit slips, void and refund checks, manage bank remittance and payment reversals, reconcile a bank account

Define and manage budgets (15–20%)
Plan budgets
Identify budget components, identify budgeting methodologies, create organizational hierarchies, define budget stages, define budget allocation terms, configure budget plans, configure budget allocation schedules, configure support for budget planning templates
Control budgets
Plan for budget controls; identify budget control components; set up, create, and revise budgets; define the budget funds available calculation; define budget cycles; create budget control rules and budget groups; manage budget reporting; manage integrated budgeting; create budget transfers
Create basic budgets
Define budget dimensions, create budget models and codes, create budget register entries, define and create encumbrances, manage purchase order encumbrances, process year-end purchase orders

Configure and manage Fixed Assets (20–25%)
Configure the Fixed Assets module
Set up the Fixed Assets module, create value models, create Fixed Asset groups, set up Fixed Asset parameters, manage reason codes in the Fixed Assets module, manage depreciation methods and conventions, manage depreciation books, manage provision types and bonus depreciation, update depreciation conventions for a depreciation book, set up depreciation profiles
Set up assets
Identify Fixed Assets module components; manage Fixed Asset forms; set up assets in the Fixed Assets module; lend assets; assign bar codes to assets, budget assets; integrate other modules with Fixed Assets
Manage asset transactions
Identify typical Fixed Asset transaction types; record acquisitions and acquisition proposals; create and acquire Fixed Assets from purchase orders; record depreciation, value adjustments, and disposals; manage transaction reversals; manage replacement costs and update insured values; copy Fixed Assets and change Fixed Asset groups; manage Fixed Asset additions

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QUESTION 1
You need to create a fixed asset that records depreciation quarterly.
Which form should you use to configure the period frequency for posting depreciation?

A. Value models
B. Depreciation profiles
C. Special depreciation allowance
D. Depreciation books

Answer: A

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QUESTION 2
Which three methods can you use to assign bar codes to fixed assets? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

A. Automatically assign the bar codes when you create fixed assets.
B. Assign the bar codes to fixed assets groups.
C. Automatically assign the bar codes based on the fixed asset journal type.
D. Assign the bar codes to current fixed assets.
E. Manually assign the bar codes when you create fixed assets.

Answer: A,B,D

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QUESTION 3
You need to configure a workflow to approve all budget amounts at the line level.
Which workflow configuration type should you use?

A. Budget register entry workflow
B. Ledger fixed assets budget journal workflow
C. Budget plan workflows
D. Budget account entry workflow

Answer: A

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QUESTION 4
You need to ensure that you have the most current data to manage customer collections.
What should you create first?

A. A customer account statement
B. A customer balance list
C. A customer aging snapshot
D. A customer pool

Answer: B

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QUESTION 5
Which two elements are required to create a budget plan in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

A. Budget plan priority
B. Budget plan preparer
C. Budget planning user group
D. Budget planning process

Answer: A,C

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650-157 ISIES Cisco IronPort Security Instructor - Email Security

This exam tests your skills in guiding students to recognize email compliance and security requirements for an enterprise. You also will learn to help students design and integrate a solution into a medium to large network environment. With this certification, you can deliver email security courseware, troubleshoot the laboratory, and advise customers about email security solutions that are outside of the course material.

Exam Topics
The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.

Monitoring
Incoming Mail Policies
Outgoing Mail Policies
Security Services
Networking
System Administration
Troubleshooting and Support
Command Line
Training Lab Administration

 

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QUESTION 1
In the default settings, which of the following sender groups will match on a reputation score of+2?

A. BLACKLIST
B. WHITEUST
C. SUSPECTLIST
D. RELAYL1ST
E. UNKNOWNUST

Answer: E

Explanation:

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QUESTION 2
Select two filters that come directly before and after the content filter in the email pipeline.

A. Message Filter
B. Reputation Filter
C. Anti-Spam
D. Outbreak Filters
E. Anti-Virus
F. RSA DLP

Answer: D,E

Explanation:

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QUESTION 3
How would you configure the Recipient Access Table to accept all subdomains and the root
domain mydomain.com?

A. One entry: mydomain.com
B. Two entries: mydomain.com and '.mydomain.com
C. Two entries: mydomain.com and .mydomain.com
D. One entry: "mydomain.com

Answer: C

Explanation:

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QUESTION 4
An enterprise has two email domains but only one is covered by their LDAP directory. Of the
following, which is the best method to address this?

A. Disable LDAP verification in the HAT
B. Remove LDAP Acceptance from the incoming listener
C. Create a mail policy for this domain that skips LDAP Accept checks.
D. Configure Bypass LDAP Accept in the RAT

Answer: D

Explanation:

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QUESTION 5
Which one of the following commands is the "Administrator Role" restricted from exercising?

A. upgrade
B. shutdown
C. suspend
D. reload

Answer: A

Explanation:
upgrade ( however, starting AsyncOS 7.5 this has changed )
( ref
:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/esa/esa7.5/ESA_7.5_Configuration_Guide.pdfStarting
in AsyncOS 7.5, administratorscan perform system upgrades, create
clusters, and join appliances to existing clusters)

16 must-have Android productivity apps

From basic business tasks to advanced automation, these 16 apps will make your Android device more useful than ever

16 must-have Android productivity apps

Gone are the days of a phone revolving around voice communication. These days, a mobile device is a powerful personal computer, and with the right set of tools, it can be an invaluable productivity machine.

How do you transform your Android device from interesting gadget to indispensable assistant? We have you covered. These 16 apps are among the best functionality-expanding productivity tools available for Android today. Put them on your Android smartphone or tablet, and get ready to watch your productivity soar.

(Note that this list does not include Google apps that come preloaded by default with Android, such as Gmail and Google Drive.)

OfficeSuite 8
OfficeSuite 8 has won our last three Android office suite shoot-outs, and for good reason: It's hands-down the best fully featured office suite available for Android users.

OfficeSuite Pro costs $14.99 plus another $10 for an essential font compatibility add-on (or $19.99 a year via an in-app purchase for the Premium version, if you'd rather go the subscription route) -- but you get what you pay for: The program boasts an elegant design on both smartphones and tablets and is jam-packed with advanced desktoplike functionality for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It integrates with numerous cloud storage services and offers native PDF-markup commands.

Even with Microsoft's own Office apps now available on Android, OfficeSuite 8 remains the most robust and user-friendly option the platform has to offer.

App: OfficeSuite 8
Price: $14.99 for Pro; $19.99 per year for Premium

Cabinet BETA
One of Android's greatest assets for power users is its unrestricted file system access: You can browse your Android device as you would a computer, navigating through folders and moving, deleting, or sharing files as you wish.

Plenty of apps can help you do that, but Cabinet BETA stands out for its clean and modern Material Design-based user interface. Cabinet makes it easy to manipulate folders and files, zip and unzip archives, and share files directly to any service you have on your device (email, social media, cloud storage, and so on). Best of all, it's free.

AirDroid
When you're at your desk, it can get annoying to keep grabbing your smartphone to send texts or see whose call you missed. Why not do it all from your PC instead?

AirDroid makes it possible: Once you've installed the app on your phone or tablet, you simply pull up web.airdroid.com on your computer's Web browser. From there, you can read and send texts, view call logs, browse through your device's storage, and wirelessly transfer files between your Android device and computer. With certain devices, AirDroid can even fully mirror your home screen on your desktop and allow you to control your phone completely from your computer.

AirDroid works over both Wi-Fi and mobile data connections. The app itself is free to use, though some features require a $20-per-year premium subscription.

Chrome Remote Desktop
Want full remote access to your PC from your Android phone or tablet? Google's free Chrome Remote Desktop is all you need. Simply install the companion app for the Chrome desktop browser -- compatible with any operating system where the browser is supported -- and within minutes, you'll be securely connecting to your computer from your mobile device.

Once connected, you can use your Android device to open folders, manipulate files, and run programs on your desktop system as if you were sitting right in front of it. You can connect multiple computers to the service, too; all you have to do is install and configure the Chrome app on each additional system, and it'll show up as an option in the app.

Google Now Launcher
Android device makers love to muddy the OS's interface with their attempts at visual design, but more often than not, those changes are a step in the wrong direction. Why not take matters into your own hands? The Google Now Launcher -- loaded by default on Google's own Nexus devices -- gives you a clean and simple "stock" home screen setup that'll improve your mobile experience and make you more productive.

Aside from eliminating the clashing colors and excessive clutter many manufacturers add into the environment, the Google Now Launcher puts the powerful Google Now service right at your fingertips as a permanent panel at the leftmost side of your home screen. That makes the service feel more like a native part of the system and allows easier access to useful contextual info that's tailored to your needs.

Microsoft Outlook
Wish you could have the familiar Outlook email interface on your Android phone or tablet? Until recently, you were out of luck -- but no more.

Microsoft officially released its Outlook app for Android earlier this year. The free app works with Microsoft Exchange accounts, as you'd expect, and it supports Office 365 and Outlook.com, along with third-party services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and iCloud. It has integrated Outlook calendar support as well, including a nifty native scheduling feature.

If you already live in Microsoft's world, the Outlook app for Android may be the missing piece you've been waiting for.

Today Calendar
Regardless of how you manage your appointments, being able to see them at a glance on your home screen goes a long way. The native Android calendar widget leaves something to be desired (as do most native widgets added by phone manufacturers), but fear not: Plenty of excellent alternatives are available.

One of the best and most versatile options belongs to Today Calendar, a top-notch calendar app that works seamlessly with the Google Calendar service. The app -- which is available both in a free ad-supported form and a $6 Pro version -- includes an attractive scrollable agenda widget as well as a separate month-view widget. Both widgets are completely customizable, so you can make them look exactly how you like.

Today's full app interface is also a meaningful step above the default calendar apps provided on many devices in terms of both features and design (though you don't have to use it in order to get the widgets).

Google Keep
Need a simple way to keep track of thoughts, tasks, and lists? (Who doesn't?) Google's Keep app gives you a dead-simple interface for recording, managing, and sharing all the little things in your life.

Keep allows you to jot down notes or leave yourself memos via voice and have them transcribed automatically into text. You can snap photos to include with notes, too, and even search later to find any text visible in those images.

Keep has a bunch of other useful bells and whistles, including a checklist function, the ability to tag and color-code items (then sort by those variables for easy access), and the ability to set location-based reminders for specific notes or lists. The app also makes it possible to share notes or lists, then collaborate on them with others in real time.

Perhaps most important, Keep works on any platform -- and everything you do is always synced across all of your devices.

Evernote
For hardcore note-taking junkies, Evernote is a tough app to beat. The service allows you to create multiple notebooks into which you can save text notes, complex lists, images, and voice reminders. You can even send content into an Evernote notebook by emailing it to a special address connected to your account.

Evernote keeps your stuff synced with its own cloud-based service. It's accessible on the Web and on most major platforms, so that setup tends to work well enough.

Evernote is free, though certain functions -- including offline access, advanced searching, and increased transfer allotments -- require a $25- or $50-per-year premium subscription.

Expensify
As any road warrior knows, keeping track of expenses can be a pain. Expensify can ease the burden. The app provides an easy-to-follow interface for tracking time, miles, receipts, and invoices on the go, then generating on-demand reports as needed.

Expensify lets you scan receipts as you get them, after which it automatically pulls out the pertinent info from the images and puts it into your records. It can tap into your phone's GPS to log miles as you drive, and it offers offline functionality for the times when you can't get a signal.

Expensify is free, though optional premium plans will lift certain usage restrictions and unlock additional features.

TripIt
Travelers, meet your new best friend. TripIt takes all the heavy lifting out of travel, giving you a simple centralized place for storing and tracking all your travel info.

Once you sign up for TripIt, all you do is forward every travel-related email -- flight reservations, hotel bookings, even car rental or restaurant confirmations -- to plans@tripit.com. TripIt then extracts the important details and puts them into comprehensive and user-friendly itineraries that are accessible from any phone or tablet (as well as from the Web). It can also sync the data automatically into your Google Calendar, if you want.

TripIt is free; an optional $50-per-year Pro subscription gets you a variety of advanced premium features, including real-time flight alerts and a virtual assistant for finding alternate flights along the way.

Google Translate
Going abroad? Google Translate is the companion you need. Translate makes it easy to convert text from one language to another in ways that actually make sense.

Sure, you can type in a phrase in your native tongue and have Translate move it into another language. But you can also take a snapshot of a sign, menu, or document with your phone and have Translate decipher the text. You can speak into your phone in one language and have Translate speak back in another. And you can do it all offline, provided you download the necessary language packs in advance.

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SwiftKey
Depending on your device, your default keyboard may be decent, but there's a strong chance SwiftKey is better.

SwiftKey -- free, with optional in-app purchases for extra themes -- provides outstanding next-word prediction that's personalized based on your typing habits. The app also has an excellent swipe-to-type option that lets you input text by sliding your finger from one letter to the next without lifting.

All combined, it's a stellar keyboard that can boost productivity and transform your smartphone- or tablet-using experience.

Link Bubble
Let's face it: Opening links from your phone isn't always the best experience. Anytime you tap a link within an app -- a news-reading tool, for instance, or a social media browser -- you have to stop what you're doing and wait for the page to take over your display and load.

Link Bubble brings a much-needed intelligent upgrade to the process. The app -- which is completely free as of this month -- opens all of your links in a floating and movable bubble that sits on the side of your screen. You can keep doing whatever you're doing and continue to open more links as you encounter them.

Whenever you're ready to read the content you've opened, you simply tap the bubble -- and the pages appear in an overlay window on your screen. With another tap or swipe, you can move between them, share them to another app or service, or shrink them back down for later perusing.

It makes so much sense, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Hooks
Android notifications are powerful -- but what if you could connect them to the Web and make them even more robust?

With the help of a free app called Hooks, you can. Hooks lets you set up custom notifications based on events that happen online -- and in the real world. You could have the app notify you on your phone anytime your website or server goes down, for instance, or anytime new information is released about a software vulnerability you're tracking. You could configure alerts for package deliveries, stocks of interest, or mentions of your company in Google search and social media.

And all of that is only the start.

Tasker
Our last must-have Android productivity app is perhaps the most powerful and versatile of all. It's called Tasker, and it's an Android power-user's dream.

In short, Tasker -- which costs $2.99 -- lets you create intelligent automation on your device. You could have your phone automatically connect to a certain Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth device whenever you're in a particular location or change its ring behavior and volume settings based on location, time of day, or currently occurring calendar events.

Tasker isn't for the faint of heart -- if you want something simpler but less versatile, the more user-friendly (and free) Agent might be the app for you -- but if you're up for a little geek-targeted tinkering, Tasker will open your Android device up to a practically limitless range of new and exciting possibilities.

App: Tasker
Price: $2.99
Developer: Crafty Apps EU

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Smartphones are about to become network hubs

Broadcom's latest chipset will run 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi simultaneously. That changes everything in terms of media bandwidth and multiple IoT connections.

Here's the quandary with smartphones: despite featuring copious radios within, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi over both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, 4G LTE, Near Field Communication (NFC), and so on, the radios with the most propensity for delivering media don't work together.

The two Wi-Fi bands found in today's smartphones generally aren't used at the same time. The issue has been related to needing two antennas connected at the same time for the different bands. It's because the frequencies used have very different characteristics.

This dual-band limitation is about to change, for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, the newest routers, or wireless access points, that are being sold are already kitted with the two radios and antennas configured to work together at the same time. I wrote about a few of these monsters recently in a post titled "Is it time to move to beamforming 802.11ac?"

And secondly, new modem chipsets are now coming along that will, pretty much for the first time, do the same thing at the smartphone end.

Broadcom has just announced a Wi-Fi Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) combination modem chip with what it calls Real Simultaneous Dual Band (RSDB) for mobile devices. The BCM4359 lets phones transmit and receive over two Wi-Fi bands simultaneously.

Smartphone as hub
Why? Well, there are considerable advantages to using both Wi-Fi bands at the same time. The obvious one is that by combining the bandwidth available you can increase speeds and throughput.

However, there are some secondary benefits that promise to play out too.

The smartphone could become a "network controlling hub," David Recker, a Broadcom executive told Kevin Fitchard at Gigaom.

Recker thinks that by letting phones connect to Wi-Fi along two paths, in other words the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, the phone could become the hub of the two connections. You could use the phone to download a video over Wi-Fi from the internet while simultaneously streaming it to a living room television.

Or, he says, you could connect a smartwatch to a phone in order to check email and listen to streaming music at the same time—all via nice bandwidth-friendly Wi-Fi.

Bluetooth
This prophecy clearly has implications for Bluetooth, which has been a viable way to keep multiple connections going on a smartphone.

Listening to music on a smartphone via Bluetooth while browsing the internet with Wi-Fi has been a solution used by media consumers since before the iPhone. That's how I did it on a 2006 Palm Treo.

However, Wi-Fi is faster and can have longer range. Having two of those fatter Wi-Fi pipes going at once has advantages for video and gaming at home.

Before you utter a word, I'm not saying Bluetooth doesn't have a valuable role to play in IoT.

Internet of Things
Which leads us to IoT. If the IoT in our future is going to be using Wi-Fi—and the jury's still out on that one—then it's going to need a bunch of pipes. One probably won't be enough for two-way, latency-prone media multi-tasking, along with home automation and everything else we're expecting.

Based on convenience, too, the smartphone thus becomes an IoT hub. Who's going to break the news to the fridge?

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Data Centers to World: Not Dead Yet!

Anticipating the next-gen data center

Agility and flexibility are two of the most popular words to describe the attributes expected from IT in helping achieve future business objectives. But how do you apply those attributes to what many large enterprises still consider the linchpin of IT infrastructure – the data center?

There are not, yet, many companies like Condé Nast, which recently shuttered its data center to go "all in with the cloud." Let’s face it, if you’re a content company, albeit one of the select few with a still thriving print business, transforming to an all-cloud strategy makes a lot of sense.

For just about any other industry, cloud may drive new growth and innovation, but the bulk of business is still dependent on heavy-duty data center servers and applications to run the daily operations.

For many, the prospect of going “all in” on cloud is an unachievable goal, at least for the short-term. Why disrupt transactional systems that are working well and then have to deal with the reliability and performance questions that need to be resolved to migrate them to the cloud? You can utilize online tools to calculate the ROI of new cloud projects, but how do you calculate unknown potential disruption to mission-critical applications?

CIOs are, by nature, fairly cautious and few are willing to gamble on putting all enterprise applications out in the cloud at this stage. Meeting the challenge of tomorrow, however, doesn’t necessarily mean abandonment of what is working well today. Enterprises can cost-effectively implement phased network architecture upgrades that enable new levels of application flexibility and business agility.

Many have reduced data center costs by moving more applications onto fewer servers and also reduced licensing fees and other costs by migrating to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. This highly virtualized, services on demand model is the foundation on which future cloud efforts will build.

As this migration to a virtualized environment continues, the underlying network architecture should also evolve. You wouldn't want a Boeing 777 to rely on the hydraulics controls of an earlier era, nor should you expect the cloud-based enterprise to perform well on networking that hasn’t evolved to meet new needs and expectations.

Existing network design must adapt gracefully, one rack at a time, but network infrastructure must be flexible enough to support both dedicated and virtualized hardware. Each organization needs to determine when and how far to converge IP and Fibre Channel traffic; in some cases, convergence may not make sense for applications that require assured high availability.

Data center evolution without revolution does, however, require a determination on the number of layers within each network, the number of switching tiers in each layer, and the management model for virtualization and cloud computing services. The key is to move toward a target design along a well-planned path and to use incremental steps to control risk.

Ultimately, this path will lead many to realize that the virtualized environment requires a flatter network that accommodates the flow within, between and among servers, something that can be achieved with Ethernet Fabrics.

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