Some Notes on the Machines

This is Windows 8.1 only, not 7, not 10. It is not known whether 8.0 is affected.

The current known operative case is Citrix-hosted applications, in a dual-monitor situation. If you see a malfunction, go to Control Panel, All Control Panel Items, Display. If “Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays” is unchecked, check it. It will require logoff/logon. And the problem will be fixed.

This page appears a bit outdated, but it should still work:

https://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html

This is an excellent tool for any standard Windows scanner. It handles multiple formats, storage and searching, OCR, et al.:

http://www.naps2.com/

One uses help/about to get a Build Number, and then one looks up the build number on this page:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/240.exchange-server-and-update-rollup-build-numbers.aspx

To learn what is going on NetBIOS-wise on your LAN, in Windows, do this:

NBTSTAT -r

This will get you something like the below. If you have WINS active — which is essential for NetBIOS and group policy over a VPN if you don’t do IPv6 — you will see the names resolved by name server as below. If not, if names are resolved by broadcast, you don’t have WINS, and NetBIOS will not work across VPN.

    NetBIOS Names Resolution and Registration Statistics
    ----------------------------------------------------

    Resolved By Broadcast     = 0
    Resolved By Name Server   = 1187

    Registered By Broadcast   = 0
    Registered By Name Server = 6

If Android won’t send to on-prem Exchange, try setting the LAN-local domain as the default domain in Organization Configuration, Hub Transport, Accepted Domains.

We now have the Office 365 Support and Recovery Assistant for client software support, and also the Microsoft Office 365 Client Performance Analyzer Office 365 Client Performance Analyzer for network performance issues.

In an object, under Commands, SystemTools, and then WindowsUpdateSettings, one can set the source of Windows Updates.

Here is a way:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124754

After scouting a rather large number of potential sources, this one is working extremely well; download the .repo file for your OS and put it with the rest, and you’re in with yum or dnf!

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/decathorpe/syncthing/