Some Notes on the Machines

This works well:

import-module activedirectory
get-aduser -filter * | set-aduser -scriptpath filename_in_netlogon.vbs

Sometimes an import to Outlook gets in all of the data, but the data type of the folder is wrong, so Outlook tries to show (e.g.) a Contacts folder as a list of emails. This was easy to fix in olde versions of Outlook, one just pulled up the properties of the folder and changed the type. The Microsoft lords have decided not to give us this easy way anymore, but one of their many major engineers gave us something which will do this among many other things:

https://github.com/stephenegriffin/mfcmapi

This is a very interesting GUI tool which will connect to a recent working Outlook profile, and permit you to do lots of deep things. It’s interesting to google MFCMAPI to see a few of them. You do need the 32-bit version of MFCMAPI if you have 32-bit Outlook, and 64-bit for 64-bit.

In this case, let’s say we have the situation in which we have imported a Contacts folder, but Outlook is showing it as a list of badly formed email forms. To fix it:

1. Open the profile in MFCMAPI. (We do not have to close Outlook while this is happening, but we do need to restart it to see results.)
2. Double-click on the Display Name of the account you wish to open. There may be just one, or more.
3. A window comes up. Open its tree in the left pane using the little arrow to the left of the name near the upper left corner.
4. Scroll down and open “Top of Information Store” in the left pane.
5. Left-click once on the default Contacts folder for the profile, the one that is working well.
6. Scroll in the right pane, down to PR_CONTAINER_CLASS. Doubleclick on it. Under “Ansi” it should say “IPF.Contact”, this verifies you are in the right place. Click Cancel.
7. Right-click on PR_CONTAINER_CLASS and choose “Copy property”.
8. Open and/or scroll in the left pane to the contacts folder which is not working properly.
9. Right-click anywhere in the right pane, the properties list, and choose “Paste property…”. Complete the little wizard.
10. The change will be visible immediately in Outlook if it’s open.
11. However, at least in the case just seen, the change was not synched to EOL. I had to open the original export PST and recopy, after deleting the file in OWA. One thing not tried yet was to do the above with cached-exchange turned off; in theory this might sync directly through Outlook to EOL. Also, MFCMAPI includes folder copy capability, which may make it an entirely different import method, if it works!

MFCMAPI does lots and lots of things, but not everything extremely well :-) For instance, it may throw errors when deleting a folder stored on EOL; if so, use OWA for this, OWA seems to be much more quickly authoritative.

Here:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-requests-to-Autodesk-servers-blocked-by-proxy-servers.html

and here:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Collaboration-for-Revit-Proxy-Server-and-domain-exceptions-for-Autodesk-A360-services.html

and here:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Fusion-360-cannot-access-the-services-through-proxy.html

are found some very interesting items which may be helpful when configuring either firewalls or proxy servers to work with AutoDesk products. We need to except the following FQDN’s from all proxy intervention on ports 80 and 443:

*.autodesk.com
*.google-analytics.com
*.cloudfront.net
*.virtualearth.net
*.autocadws.com
*.newrelic.com
*.akamaiedge.net
*.amazonaws.com
*.s3.amazon.com
*.edgekey.net
*.getsatisfaction.com
*.autodesk360.com 
*.skyscraper.autodesk.com
*.ssl.google-analytics.com
*.js-agent.newrelic.com
*.hotjar.com
*.optimizely.com
cdn.jsdelivr.net
www.googletagmanager.com
cdn.web-platform.io
*.notifications.api.autodesk.com
*.pubsub.pubnub.com
cdn.jsdelivr.net
akamai.com
*.akamai.com
akamaitechnologies.com
*.akamaitechnologies.com
*.protolabs.com
tracepartsonline.net
*.tracepartsonline.net
mcmaster.com
*.mcmaster.com

It’s called DroidCam, and it really works, Windows and Linux.

Under Linux you’ll need kernel module compilation capability, headers only for source. If you use the Adobe Flash Player for camera, or any other V4L version 1 application, you’ll want to start it like the below for the Pale Moon web browser:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so palemoon

First try installing this package:

gtk3-print-backends

If that doesn’t help and you have a 64-bit OS, create this file:

/etc/profile.d/firefoxprint-fix.sh

containing this line for 64-bit OS:

export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/

There is a per-user font installation procedure, but we’ll do this system-wide just in case. This procedure presumes that you are using a modern fully-fledged Linux desktop which includes a font server.

1. First we create a folder for manual font installs, and give it the right permissions.
   sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/manual-installs
sudo chmod 0555 /usr/share/fonts/manual-installs
2. Copy all of your .ttf, .otf, etc., files, into the folder, and give them all the right permissions. We’ll say that you downloaded a file named Fonts.zip to Downloads in your home directory, and unpacked it.
   sudo cp ~/Downloads/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/manual-installs
sudo chmod 0444 /usr/share/fonts/manual-installs/*
3. Update the font cache.
   sudo fc-cache

A good free-of-charge PDF reader, also free of unpleasant add-ons, works when Adobe’s breaks:

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

Here’s a great set of steps:

http://www.fosslinux.com/1387/how-to-install-microsoft-true-type-fonts-in-solus.htm

In essence it’s two interactive commands, first one, then the other:

sudo eopkg bi --ignore-safety https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solus-project/3rd-party/master/desktop/font/mscorefonts/pspec.xml

sudo eopkg it mscorefonts*.eopkg;sudo rm mscorefonts*.eopkg

There are several of these now, this is the best we have seen so far:

https://www.bignox.com/

As of this writing (2017-05-16), the situation is in flux. Items:

• The historical closed-source uberstandard for both Java virtual machine and plugin, this being Oracle (originally Sun), is supporting plugins for its current version, 8, but has announced a ceasing of plugin support for 9.
• The open-source plugin standard, IcedTea, shows no signs of weakening, and works very well indeed with both Oracle’s Java and the open-source OpenJVM and others as well. However, no Windows porting is known to this author.
• Firefox and Chrome do not support Java in their current versions. There is an Extended Support Release version of Firefox which does, for a little while longer.
• Pale Moon, a very distinctive Mozilla/Firefox variant, is reported to support Java.
• Opera is reported to support the Oracle/Sun JVM only.
• Midori is reported to support both Oracle’s and IcedTea.

The author is working on practical tests of the last three.