Some Notes on the Machines

Try this:

https://www.zoho.com/assist/

This is a service to be found in many versions of Windows, but its in-OS documentation states that it is present for application compatibility only. And yet on at least one LAN it has been seen to be essential for printing. Research has provided no results. Anyone with input, please contact me by email!

A page has been recently deleted from the UPS web site, which included:

If I connect to UPS servers through a firewall, are there any known issues?

Because the response from the UPS server may show as unsolicited to your firewall software, you may need to configure your firewall software to accept messages from our unique range of UPS IP address ranges: “207.24.0.*”

At this writing, an in-site search on http://ups.com and a Google search still brings up the page reference, but the page is gone.

As of this writing, the current authoritative list, from here:

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

is:

Run the following within Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell:

Get-ADobject -LDAPFilter "objectClass=organizationalUnit" -SearchBase "DC=domainname,DC=local" | Set-adobject -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $true

A very nice downloader provided by Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8

Some great info and tools at the page below, and scroll down to the bottom for the jackpot:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/hpsupportassistant/pc-diags.html

It may ask for a CSO Number and an Agent ID. Use “1234” (no quotes) for both.

Vivaldi is looking very good so far, Windows Mac and Linux:

http://vivaldi.com

It is possibly the only browser for 32-bit Linux which will do Netflix and other DRM’d video. To do this, you need the ffmpeg codecs package and also widevine. For Netflix, you also need to start it like this (use vivaldi-snapshot if that’s what you have):

vivaldi-stable --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36'

Vivaldi does not yet have built-in synchronization of bookmarks et cetera, but one can use the excellent EverSync to take good care of this, it also works amongst Firefox, Chrome, IE, Android, iOS, and even Windows phones.

Something very like a best practices analyzer / BPA for Office, 32-bit and 64-bit, versions 2007 and newer, both MSI and click-to-run:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36852

Something new:

https://www.netspotapp.com/netspot-windows.html