Linking Outlook.com or Windows Live Hotmail with Microsoft Outlook 2010

Say you have to link your Outlook.com mail lisa@contoso.com ( See more about Contoso ) with Microsoft Outlook 2010 64 bit.

First of all, Download the hotmail connector for Outlook at http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=21305 (for 32 bit) Or  http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=24677 (for 64 bit).

Now double click the downloaded exe file ( named as OutlookConnector.exe ) to install it.

Now configure Outlook.com mail in outlook as you configure any other mails. See the steps below:

Setting up wireless ad-hoc computer to computer network in Windows 8

 In earlier versions of Windows, It was easy to create ad-hoc network to share your internet connection with another computer or mobile through WiFi. In Windows 8 , there is no direct way to make ad-hoc network.

1. Geeky way:
   Use netsh wlan commands to setup a new network, and share your internet using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
• Go to cmd . Right click and Run as administrator.

• Type the following command
  netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=network_name key=password_here
  For example:
  netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=HOMEWIFI key=password1234
  (Note: Password should be minimum of 8 characters. )

Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird for Microsoft Exchange mail

Microsoft Exchange is the widely used mail solution in buisiness world. Microsoft Outlook is the email client used with this . But if we have to configure mail in our Linux machine, we have to go for some alternative email clients . Mozilla Thunderbird is a good alternative for Outlook. It is also pre-installed in many distros (like Ubuntu 13.10 )To configure Mozilla Thunderbird for Exchange mail , we can use an addon - ExQuilla. This addon is able to connect to Exchange 2007, 2010 and latest 2013 also.

How to find which application is using a TCP port in Windows

If a port is already in use by some unknown program and when you try to use the same port , you get a lot of errors like "Port already in use" , "Bind Exception" , "Port 80 already in use" etc. So in such case, You have to find out which process is already using this port and you can kill that process.

Steps to find which application is using a TCP port in Windows

1. Type the command to find the Process ID
Go to Run -> cmd and Type


 netstat -ano | more 

Microsoft Internship Test Questions

Today i attended the Microsoft's Internship test . Here i am posting the questions so it will be useful to you too..

It was a one hour long descriptive test with six questions. The first four carries 5 marks each and remaining two carries 10 marks each.

1. You are given a character string . Write the algo to print the character with maximum occurence and print that number of occurence too.
   Eg: i am an hacker --> output should be 'a' 3 times
2. Give the output of the following code:
   

   #include<iostream>
   using namespace std;
   
   int main()
   {
   int a=10,b=2;
   b=a+++a;
   cout<<b<<" "<<a"\n";
   return 0;
   }
   

3. Give the pseudocode for finding the factorial of a given integer.Make sure that the number should be of atmost two digits.
4. What is Early binding and Late binding.
5. You are given with a tree. Write the algo to make sure that it is a binary tree.
6. You are given with a software application to send an email. write the testcases to check the working of the software.
(There was a picture here ..showing the working of email sender application.i cant waste time by drawing it.)