Some Notes on the Machines

If you find that inbound emails are not going where they should go, but cannot find any Rules in Outlook or Exchange to match, they may be slightly corrupt and thus invisible. If you run Outlook with /cleanrules and /cleanconvongoingactions , this will eliminate all rules and also a queue which can be involved. A full list of command-line switches for Outlook, is here:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Command-line-switches-for-Outlook-for-Windows-079164CD-4EF5-4178-B235-441737DEB3A6

Driving Explorer with this as address:

shell:startup

will get you the per-user startup folder. The public startup folder can be driven using this:

shell:common startup

This works well:

Option Explicit
Dim strComputer

strComputer = "."

Dim objWMI,networkPrinters,networkPrinter
Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set networkPrinters = objWMI.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Printer Where Network = true") 

For Each networkPrinter in networkPrinters 
    networkPrinter.Delete_ 
Next 

Set networkPrinter = Nothing
Set networkPrinters = Nothing
Set objWMI = Nothing

This is a tool from QuickBooks, new to me, which can fix a lot of different Windows library and other issues, to be used sometimes when QuickBooks fails to install.

https://community.intuit.com/articles/1019962-fix-common-installation-errors-using-the-qbinstall-tool

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