Some Notes on the Machines

This can do a lot of good:

https://www.rizonesoft.com/download/complete-internet-repair/

If you find that login occurs, but no desktop just blackscreen, add the local users “Interactive” and “Authenticated Users” to the local group “Users”, i.e.:

net localgroup Users Interactive /add
net localgroup Users "Authenticated Users" /add

If your software is all new, let’s say 2013 and after, it probably makes sense to disable 8.3 filename generation, for a nice kick of speed.

To do it once for all drives, just do this:

fsutil behavior set Disable8dot3 1

If you want to do it for one select drive, say E:, first do a registry edit in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

you’ll want to change NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 2. Then you will need to reboot, and in an administrative command prompt:

fsutil behavior set E: 1

and reboot again, and it’s done.

There is a mixture of public reference statements as to whether or not Previous Versions, also called Versioning, is enabled in OneDrive for Business, which is really a second frontend for Sharepoint. Recently a new installation was studied and there was a mix of automatic activations of Versioning for different libraries and lists made, without clear logic behind. Versioning is essential as a backup method for many related uses, so it becomes essential to know how to turn it on automatically for all libraries and lists of an entire Office 365 tenant. And right now, this appears to be the only published way, a contributed script in the Office 365 Gallery:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Enable-versioning-for-all-ae5cfb5d

In order to use it, one first installs:

• PowerShell 3.0 if you don’t have it,
• The SharePoint Online Management Shell, and
• The Sharepoint Online Client Components SDK

Then log into the Office 365 tenant as an administrator, and click Sharepoint. You’ll be looking at the page for a URL something like this:

https://partofmydomain.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx

Now run PowerShell as administrator, take the “partofmydomain” chunk of text from your browser, and form the SharePoint admin URL. Don’t browse to it, but you’ll need it shortly:

https://partofmydomain-admin.sharepoint.com

Now you’ll need the script from the web page referenced at the top of this article, saved to a location to which you can CD in PowerShell. Get to that location in the shell, and run ‘notepad versioning.ps1’, towards the end you’ll see two path lines:

Add-Type -Path "c:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"  
Add-Type -Path "c:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"

The 15’s need to be changed to 16’s to match the current version of the Sharepoint installables above. Once you have this, run:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

in PowerShell if you haven’t already, and then:

./Versioning.ps1

It will ask you for the URL; give it the one you constructed above. Then it will ask you for admin credentials. Once it has them, it will run through every list and library, and if Versioning can be turned on, it will be.

By default, at least sometimes, Microsoft OneDrive does not have any backup mechanism in place at all. There is a Previous Versions system however which can be turned on and off:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-previous-version-of-a-document-in-OneDrive-for-Business-159cad6d-d76e-4981-88ef-de6e96c93893?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Here’s a great set of steps for these:

http://blog.jocha.se/tech/azure-ad-sync-event-error-6126-and-6127

The short of it is:

1. Bring up the Syncronization Service Manager (“Synchronization Service” in Windows search),
2. Click on Connectors,
3. Click on “Active Directory Domain Services”,
4. Click Run in the right pane, choose Full Synchronization, click OK, and wait for completion to be reported (it’s fairly obvious),
5. Click Run in the right pane, choose Full Import, click OK, and wait for completion to be reported,
6. Click Windows Azure Active Directory,
7. and do the same two Runs as for the other line item.

For Debian-based and RPM:

http://t-e.cc/install-btsync-on-ubuntu-14-04-from-official-repo/

Prioritizing certain kinds of data, can help a lot in general on Linux. Here’s the FireQOS configuration I just set up on this 802.11g-wireless laptop:

DEVICE=wlan0
INPUT_SPEED=54000kbit
OUTPUT_SPEED=54000kbit
LINKTYPE="ethernet"
interface $DEVICE world-in input rate $INPUT_SPEED
interface $DEVICE world-out output rate $OUTPUT_SPEED

interface $DEVICE world-in input rate $INPUT_SPEED $LINKTYPE balanced
	class priority commit 10%
		match tcp port 22,3389,53,444  # SSH, RDP, DNS, SSL VPN
		match proto GRE
		match icmp
		match tcp syn
		match tcp ack

interface $DEVICE world-out output rate $OUTPUT_SPEED $LINKTYPE balanced
	class priority commit 10%
		match tcp port 22,3389,53,444
		match proto GRE
		match icmp
		match tcp syn
		match tcp ack

Google stores all of your historical Google searches, YouTube video searches and views, and lots of other interesting things. Here’s a new tool to control this.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Some articles:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff384840(v=vs.85).aspx).aspx

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2014/06/25/the-end-is-nigh-for-frs/