Some Notes on the Machines

This is a great way:

webinstall.dev/syncthing/

HPE must be growing a sense of humor. This thing really works well:

https://partsurfer.hpe.com/Search.aspx

Here are web sites for diagnosing DNS, Internet email, and other issues.

http://mxtoolbox.com

A very good place to test Internet email servers and servers in general exposed to the Internet at large.

http://dnsstuff.com

DNSstuff is excellent for diagnosing DNS issues of all kinds.  Most of its tools require a small subscription fee.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/

whatismyipaddress.com is very good for obtaining geographical and ISP information for an IP address.

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

is very good for testing Exchange WAN services, e.g., smartphone access, Outlook Anywhere.

For certain tasks, it can be helpful to run CMD as SYSTEM. This can be done with paexec:

paexec -s -i -d cmd.exe

or psexec:

psexec -sid %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\cmd.exe

AnyBurn seems to be possibly the current best light & powerful CD/DVD toolbox item:

www.anyburn.com/download.php

It’s available in 64-bit and 32-bit versions. ImgBurn was go-to for a long time, but it hasn’t had updates since 2013. Quite a few others are gone too. But the old reliable CDBurnerXP is still being kept up to Windows 10 as well:

cdburnerxp.se/

Test if UDP ports are open to the Internet.

https://www.ipvoid.com/udp-port-scan/

I have just moved to this one:

https://www.notefly.org/

Bugs showing up in the others I’ve used, some of them only showing up at the end of the day when lots of notes exist.

Here’s a great place to do so:

https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

And another:

https://www.ultratools.com/tools/spamDBLookup

And another:

http://www.dnsbl-check.info/

And a third, realtime:

http://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php

This seems to be quite the tool. Haven’t tested it yet.

https://github.com/oneget/oneget

Can be installed or updated in 10 with: Install-Module -Name PackageManagement -Force

Try this, in administrative Powershell:

wevtutil el | ForEach-Object { "$_"; wevtutil cl "$_" }