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Assigning Tasks in Microsoft Outlook 2002Along with using network resources to schedule and assign tasks for users andemployees, you’ll also want to allow for scheduling of computer-based tasks.This caninclude scheduling recurring events such as nightly backups of user data, or the ability torun tasks on an as-needed basis to create user accounts, reset a forgotten password, and thelike.Windows Server 2003 has a graphical Task Scheduler interface that allows you toschedule tasks on a daily, weekly, or custom basis.You can also integrate many Windowscommands and utilities into scripted batch files or custom applications. For example, theadministrator for a university department might want to automate the process of creatinguser accounts for incoming freshmen every year, rather than spending time creating eachindividual account manually.Well-developed scheduling and task-management functionswill allow the administrator to accomplish this in an efficient and timesaving manner.
Project Collaboration
No matter the size of an organization, sharing information within an organization and withoutside parties is vital to increasing productivity and creativity on projects of all kinds. Inthis case, a “project” can refer to any situation where people need to share information,from a formal business research project to a high school marching band. Project collabora-tion technologies must provide an intuitive and easy-to-use means of sharing documents,
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