Some Notes on the Machines

Recent versions of ShoreTel Communicator have a lot of trouble handling shared contacts folders as found in Outlook. But there is a fix:

http://www.techygeekshome.co.uk/2014/04/shoretelcontactsv3.html

Steps:

1. The user must be a local admin.
2. The install requires that Communicator and Outlook be not running. There is a click within the setup utility to make sure of this.
3. Click within the installer, to install.
4. Reboot the PC.
5. Log in as the user again. Open ShoreTel Communicator, Tools/Options…, Outlook, Upload Options. See multiple items, all checked. This confirms successful installation.
6. Open Outlook, make sure all ShoreTel plugins are not disabled.
7. Open the Directory tab in Communicator, this is where they will show up; attempt a search on a common first name (e.g., “Joe”), this will prove that it is working.

Some Windows Update issues are permissions problems, which can be fixed using a method involving SUBINACL:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/968003#/en-us/kb/968003

The following in an .htaccess file, will redirect all web-browser clients except the one using IP 111.111.111.111

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^111\.111\.111\.111
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maint.html$ [NC]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpe?g?|png|gif) [NC]
 RewriteRule .* /maint.html [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

Not tested yet, but looks very intriguing:

http://www.profilemigrator.com/e/pm/shop

Here is a good synopsis:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s06.html.en

The following very quick fix:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/acrobat-failed-launch-30-days.html

often will save the bacon.

A great way to increase! For Windows, CC Proxy is highly recommended:

http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/proxy-server-download.htm

and for Linux, Polipo, which is in many distros:

http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/

This web tool:

http://hostadvice.com/tools/whois/

will identify the company hosting a web site. Also gives the nameservers for the domain. Suggested by Lurie Austinser!

This project:

http://www.x2go.org

appears very good.

This place is BBB accredited, and has very competitive prices:

https://www.nationwidebarcode.com/