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General Software Discussion / Need a way to modify a Subject Line in Outlook Email using Scripts or Rules

« on: April 14, 2014, 07:54 PM »

Help!  I hope someone else has had to do this and it is easy to accomplish.
Being the IT guy, I have full access to our mail server.   So I Know for a fact this is not being done there or by us.
But some mail server or some application (or maybe some malware ?) has decided to put the word "***SPAM***" in the subject line if a lot of email that is sent from a couple of users here.  I have tried my best to explain to them that if they Don't even bother to delete that word before they forward the message on, it leave me with no way to know when it happened. 
But trying to explain email "How Email Really Works"  to most people is the subject of many a cartoon.

Right now I just need a Bandage to get by until I can figure out who did it to whom.

I cannot see a way to remove that from the subject line.  I can scan for it  find it  but my options  if it is found do not include "remove this word" which is all I need for now.

I know this has happened in the past with AVG but no one uses AVG and this header marker is VERY specific  it ALWAYS puts that same "***SPAM***"
Preceding the subject.  If I could get it out for now it would help.  They forward email back and forth constantly so this mark is all there but who knows from where it started? 

Any help with a temporary fix would be appreciated. It sounds more like something MALWARE would do to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Create Local & Cloud copy of the same files on multiple computers & stay synced

« on: April 11, 2014, 07:25 AM »

Actually not  bad idea for the 4 users and no, I had not even thought of that.  Yes, it is a real Windows 2008 Server.  I have never had much use for remote desktop but  I will sure look into it.  They don't use a "Domain" so I had gotten used to being totally powerless as I cannot enforce all the usual restriction a tried Domain Level Server would allow.  Since I don't, I have also not put much effort into finding out how much I could limit them as far as possibly trashing the Server.
It could solve my problem with these 4 people IF, I can given them ONLY access to those files and folders.  And nothing else.
Since their use of the files and folder when loading the sites is secondary to the primary reason for the files and folders (they are thee as a resource to the other SQL program and if anything "broke" the loss of the SQL programs data would be a lot worse than the loss of access for 4 people from home.
These 4 are not "special" other than "Specially NOT knowing a thing about "How Things REALLY Work!"

Turing them loose inside the real server could be a bad idea.  I would have to lock them down to ONLY that single directory and ONLY being able to copy files from it as needed to upload to the website.  The files get uploaded in batches of 5 or 10 files to a mixtures= of areas so they still need the "middle" area.  As in copy to their drive, then upload an needed.  THEN  delete the copies.  That is the other problem.  In doing it this way, they are "forgetting" that once they have uploaded the files, they need to delete them from their "piles" and start fresh ones.  They tend to name them all kinds of weird folder names and forget what they were. 

They have been putting them everywhere.

One of them was so far off, that HER favorite method of getting back to the website was so save the page she was on.
NOT save as a favorite or anything like that.  I mean actually SAVE the PAGE as HTML.  I found folders all over her desktop and asked her where she got them.  At first I didn’t think much of it as I thought they were the names of the specific sites she was working on, the whole name ran off the end.  Then I noticed all these Internet explorer icons with the same name (again, all over her desktop)

When I asked what they were, she said that was how she gets back to where she was when she left.  So I looked inside the folders.  I almost could not believe what she had been doing!  These were literal COPIES of all the CODE needed to create the webpage. I am sure you know what I mean.  I had her click one of her "shortcuts" and looked at the address bar in IE.  Sure enough, she was inside the folder on her desktop.

Since the site is a Password protected one, that was probably all that save her.  Even though it was a "copy" of an inside page, as soon as she connected, it forced her to login.  The login routes you back to a specific page so.. if you did not KNOW what you were seeing it might not even look so weird.  Thank God for Hyperlinks!
I would be a bit worried about letting people like that work with the REAL only copies so I would still have to create a mirror folder on the server but it would be easier to keep that "COPY" folder updated for sure!

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General Software Discussion / Create Local & Cloud copy of the same files on multiple computers & stay synced

« on: April 11, 2014, 02:00 AM »

Sounds weird but this is a "Real" Question.

I am hoping someone can offer some suggestions to help in an unusual situation.
I have 4 people who use a huge number of document files for two different programs.  Both programs need to use the same files but for different reasons for these 4 people.

Due to recent changes in ISP rules, we are no longer able to use network drive mapping as we have been.  Connecting by VPN works fine for everything except mapping a network drive to the remote folder on the server.  COX has nor joined Comcast and many others in blocking port 445 for HOME internet users.  If they pay for business Internet, the problem immediately disappears so we pretty much narrowed it down very fast with that one fact.

Regardless of the reason, the vendors on the main program which is a SQL database said that many of their other users had switched to using CLOUD hosting to solve this problem.  This is due to the fact that their SQL relational database requires a fixed drive letter as a reference point.  When using the program to look up something it is always referenced by storage at a mapped network drive.  As soon as these people go home, they no longer have access to a Mapped drive on a business Server.
The only thing that changed was all the ISP’s where this occurred were admitting to blocking port 445

The Cloud service they recommend has a solution for this and does allow me to map a drive letter to their CLOUD storage which works very well for that program’s needs.  Even though CLOUD access is “streaming” files from beginning to end, it is fast enough for that program as it deals with files on a one by one basis. .   While these are all small files, there are over 50,000 in total number and no way to make it any less.  It will actually be more over time.   But in size, it is only about 10gb.

These same people also need to be able to use these same files as documents to be uploaded to a website.  They need to be able to upload several files at a time which requires a long delay to get them streamed first to their local drive before they can upload it to the Website.  We quickly found out that if they tried to go direct from the CLOUD drive to the website, it failed as soon as they filled up the buffers since the files were in their system yet to upload, they were still in the stream coming down.

One possibility I considered is to give each of the 4 people a full “seed” copy of all the files and keep it Synced to the CLOUD copy at all times.  They would use the local copy for their website uploads and the CLOUD copy (which CAN be mapped as a drive letter) to do the work needed for the Program that must have a Drive Letter.
Interestingly enough, the Server that hosts the SQL database program has no problem at all running over the VPN because port 445 is not needed.  Only Windows requires it for SMB protocols in Drive mapping but SQL can run without the mapped drive,  You just have no access to the documents referred to which you pull up a record.

But I can see all kinds of problems in Synchronization that could well cause a disaster at some point,  On the good side, If it works, I would have 4 off-site back-up copies of the entire data drive should something happen to it at the CLOUD location.

If I was going to even try this at all, I need a way to create a desktop display showing the total size, number of folders and number of files along with a baseline showing the largest size the CLOUD  drive been  along with the largest number of files and folders.

This would provide an easy way for each to monitor their CLOUD drive compared to their corresponding local folder.  A large discrepancy in anything would indicate a problem so it could be resolved before it was a disaster.

While I am sure there has to be a better way, the only one that I have proven will work is for each person to pay for business Internet at Home. Then their ISP will remove the port 445 block and we can go back to the normal networked drive access over a VPN.

I am hoping someone here has run into something similar and may know another way around this.  The port 445 block was obviously to prevent “work from home” rather than the proclaimed “additional security from Internet Worms” as that is what is does best at.

I look forward to seeing if anyone knows a better way to give both of these programs what they need.  I can tell you for 100% certain that the vendor of the software has already said they have no plans for making changes to their literal requirements for a common mapped drive letter for all users.  The “path” to document is coded into their software and they are not going to change it.

They are not concerned about the fact we need to use those same documents at all  the same workstations to do a task unrelated to their own.
Currently, the users are all coming up with various ways to beat the problem by copying what they think they might need into various folders all over their laptops and it is creating  disaster for who has the most current copy of any file as well as where did they happen to put it.

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Living Room / Re: send PNG by email but inserted into email instead of as an attachment

« on: April 10, 2014, 11:30 PM »

Many thanks to all,  Some good ideas here.  especially the last one as I have never heard of it.  Problem steps recorder?  Weill
I'm up for it.  (barely up..  but i'll try anything after some sleep)

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Living Room / Powertools For Free

« on: April 06, 2014, 03:52 PM »

I feel sure that by now someone else has already posted this information.  Bu the people over at Macecraft are trying to use Crowdsourcing a way to be able to put the entire source-code for their software up for anyone who wants it.

I have used JVR Powertools 2014 for some time now and I wondered if anyone had any comments on it before I join the movement.  I definitely don't mind supporting the results I have gotten from their product by purchasing it but would rather support the effort if it is worthy.

I just wondered if anyone else had any information either good or bad.
Crowdsourcing for Powertools

Main website for download

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Living Room / Off topic but does anhyone know wherei can get a Guaranted real JAVA installer

« on: April 06, 2014, 02:57 PM »

This just happened last week and I have not yet found a solution.
Apparently there is a new Java Updater Exploit.  (as if there were not enough of them already)
It was not caught by AVAST nor Bit Defender or any other AV that the people who got it were using.
It may be by now but too little, too late.
Now I have to find a way to get rid of the BAD copy and replace it with a good one.
Sounds easy enough but if using a browser that is already infected it redirects you back to another infected copy.

The fact that the update was only 800kb you would think would have set off someone's alarms but most people (Just People)
never even look at that.  If the site LOOKS real (and it did  Very real).  They just go for it.

Now I need a way to get them back to clean.  Only when I ask Google for a "Clean copy of Java" you get 100 sites that offer to give you NOT clean copies.

If you go to JAVA, they try their best to install it JUST for you.  Which may or may not be the best idea.  But either way  it isn't ME that has the problem.

If I send the link to the download to the people with the BAD copy, as soon as they enter it into their browser it is redirected to the Infected copy. and the cycle begins again.
except now they blame ME for giving it to them.

Any options would be appreciated.

Even if I just knew for 100% sure I could tell them to UNINSTALL Java and NEVER put it back.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Remember where I got the Download

« on: April 06, 2014, 02:44 PM »

These are ALL good ideas and I agree that MS dos not make things easier in ANY way.
My latest method uses WAY too much space PLUS it allows for the "possible" saving of both things WANTED (hyperlinks to get back) but also thngs NOT wanted (hyperlinks to all the ads and junk).

I started using the "File/Saveas"  option to save the entire webpage as an MHT file.  The trying to put enough info into the  name to know why I saved it referring back to whatever file I found there.

Not the best option but Better Too Much, than Too Little when I try to figure out what the heck I downloaded an "Easter egg" coloring app for.   

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Living Room / send PNG by email but inserted into email instead of as an attachment

« on: April 06, 2014, 02:34 PM »

OK, Time for another "How to I DO this" and I know this is the best place to ask.

I have a need to be able to send many PNG files which are actually screenshots showing how to do something or what they should see when they try to do it to a number of people.  I have a whole library of these covering various problems.


On the first time out, the screen capture program even by default adds it to the email as an attachment.  This may not seem such a big deal but since PNG files by default are opened as Windows Photo manager or some such quite often the result is not usable or does not convey the original meaning in its entirety,  I have tried all kinds of auto-size and such to get the image down to a what I saw when I made it but that still is not a solution.  PAINT does the best job but it is not the default PNG viewer on many (most) systems.

The perfect solution would be to embed the image within the email at about 50% of the original.  I can do that now, but it takes a LOT of manipulating to do so.  Right click send as email wont do it.  Opening an email, inserting the png, and resizing to 50% is the only way I have found.

Is there a utility or method that I am overlooking?

All I want to do is right click the correct screenshot.png and choose send by email and have that option open an email in outlook with the image already inserted at 50%.

Then I can add any necessary info and I do not have to worry about Outlook Blocking the attachment since there isn't one.
Plus I know they see it at a size that can fit on one page.

Thanks for any advice.  

Even from 4WD.  

Because he seems to already know all of it.
(you too Mr. Shades)  

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General Software Discussion / Re: couple of one-click requests

« on: April 02, 2014, 07:25 AM »

hmm.  re: attach them to other thread link:
Other thread has no hosts apps but I do remember seeing some in some link somewhere?
And re: Location not being Aussieland.  I was more than a bit surprised as I was sure I had you pegged as a "down-under" dude.
I was waiting for the " That's nawt a knife  THIS is a 4wd knife" kind of comment.
if you are  in Sunshine State we are neighbors.  Me being in the LA part.  (Lower Alabama 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Office 365 and Outlook

« on: April 02, 2014, 01:22 AM »

Does anyone have any info on a way to prevent Office 365 from EVER using Offline mode.  I understand the reasons for it but I have a lot of people who don't.  When they hit send, if the item says it sent, they expect it to be gone.  Then the recipient may not get the item for hours because it really did NOT get sent but put in a cache waiting for the next internet connection.  There is not indication to the sender (or not one they ever see) that this item did not really g out.  It is not in the Outbox and shows in the Sent box.
And eventually it does send.  But on items of an Urgent nature this is a  Nightmare!

I can even understand their reasons for the request, they just want Outlook to work the way it always has.  I have tried to research this but it almost looks like no one even wants to discuss it.
If she hits SEND, and it does NOT really go out for whatever reason, she wants it to show that by staying in her OUTBOX so she KNOWS it is not sent.

All attempts to explain the "new way" that Microsoft forced on everyone with the "OneDrive" default has been a total nightmare at most businesses.  and If there is NO other way, I might have to suggest they go back to Office 2010.  Although I am not even sure that is possible as far as importing the new PST file from Outlook 2013 (365)  into Outlook 2010.

This company uses Outlook like a Giant Filing Cabinet and learning NEW ways here is not a good thing.  The new laptops all come Windows 8 preloaded with Office 365 ready to go.  I know Office 2010 works fine on windows 8 as I build my OWN systems for my use and for the servers.  They run Office 2010 with no problem on windows 8 and Server 2012.

So right now, any help would be appreciated.  I just spent 3 days to find a way to unravel the "OneDrive" default and get rid of it.  Most people here did not even notice that they were defaulting to ONEDRIVE instead of their local systems other than complaints about the OPEN and SAVE being SLOW.  I almost missed it myself.  The only evidence being the address bar on SAVE showing
"httP://" instead of c:\

Getting rid of ONEDRIVE is worse than a cockroach infestation.  It just wont go away.  In addition is played havoc with locally mapped network drives in our office. 

Right now my only concern is Outlook 365 as this is a desperate request direct from the Owner and I hate to tell her I simply don't know the answer yet.  I hope someone here does.

-questorfla (March 11, 2014, 01:17 PM)

I can tell you that even Office 2007 runs fine on Server 2012 (this setup was by request).

[rant]
Never a big fan from the Office software, and it's downhill from Office 2003 if you ask me. Having said so, Office 2010 is an improvement in many ways over 2007...except for Outlook. I need to send automatically generated messages encrypted. You need Outlook for this, as it is the "easiest" way to install extended MAPI which allows you to automatically encrypt (CAPI) and then to Exchange for the actual sending of these messages. Without extended MAPI, you can forget about the encryption part.

You have to give credit to Microsoft, they do go a long way in providing documentation for almost all of their products. Unfortunately Outlook with extended MAPI (Mail API) and CAPI isn't one of these products. It is so bad that it is smarter to visit the blog from the creator of OutlookSpy for answers.

Seriously, if you have problems with Outlook, use this for troubleshooting as it is worth its money. That guy is for all intents and purposes more knowledgeable/accessible than MS itself regarding programmatically processing email with MAPI/CAPI. I find this a sorry state of affairs to be honest (read: ff'ing retarded! Not intended as an insult to people with dis-abilities, these people deserve respect each day they try to be the best they can be).

Each update from each version of Office I fear, because of undocumented changes that can and do harm to the MAPI/CAPI layer. Each time I lose hours of the day just to find what the F(!) goes wrong and fixing things proves to be unnecessary convoluted in the best of cases.

Long story short(er):
If I would find one of the MS developers responsible for this mess on fire I would not even p#ss them out, I would bring out the biggest bag of marshmallows I could find and use a bellows to extend the life of the fire so I have time enough to eat all of them.

or

I would look for a person with a reproductive organ that would easily support a mahogany dining table for 6 people and tell tell this person to have his way with each and any of the responsible MS devs, preferably in Death valley where any form of lubrication evaporates within seconds...

Decisions, decisions, decisions...
[/rant]   

-Shades (March 11, 2014, 05:46 PM)

1000% on your side!  When I google a question referiing to Microsoft..ANYTHING  Microsoft.
I NEVER go to the Microsoft site for the anser.  They have a unique way and telling you everything you NEVER wanted toknow but absolutely failing to enlightien you in ANY meaningful way regaring you original question.
Do they actually TRAIN people to write BS like you see on MS site or has someone come up with a total brainless system that can string together words to seem like it might maybe have something to do with what you need to know to get their products to work.

And I am now being told that almost everyone is dropping IE in favor of  Chrome because IE simply wont fly with windows 8.  But chrome appears to be faster than ever.

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General Software Discussion / Re: couple of one-click requests

« on: March 22, 2014, 06:02 PM »

Many thanks to you both!  I had not heard of the Hosts editor but it sounds like just the place to start.  Thanks Shades.
And Thanks to you as well Mr. 4WD.

I am trying to Dl your latest scripts right now but the net must be slow to Aussie-land.  I finally got one but the other is still fussing.

Back when I used to manage a local onsite mail server for the company I did have a toll very similar to what I am looking for.  It might have been Hosts editor.
Used  it to block whole sets of IP's back in the day before everybody emulates everybody now.  Can't block a country as easy as it used to be.  We get so much SPAM I wish I could get paid by the piece for every one I manage to block.  I'd be retired Like 4WD 
Is that a site or just need to hunt for it>?

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General Software Discussion / couple of one-click requests

« on: March 19, 2014, 01:00 AM »

One of these I posted in detail over in Snacks so I wont cover it here other than to say it would be a simple mod made to the File>Send>"page by email" option in Internet Explorer.  If I could just figure out where the script for it is hidden so I cold create another that would say File>Save>" Page to Word.doc".   This would be an elegant solution to something I have been trying to find a way to do for some time.
The page by email option works but creates a lot of activity that saving a word doc would be faster and more useful.

This one is something that other programs do so it must not be that hard.  It involves using the Windows Hosts File as a Filter for Nagging Ads  and Malicious websites.  Powertools and Spybot do it within their programs and call it immunization.  It took me a while to get Notepad++ to default opening with Admin rights so the Hosts file could be edited and the results saved directly to the ETC folder.  Then creating a shortcut to the Hosts file on my Desktop that I could easily find it to edit.  Too many clicks. 

Anybody got an idea of how Spybot can tag on 50 entries and save it in a flash.  This prevents known Malware sites from accessing IE by Pointing them to 127.0.0.1.  It was the constant Google ads I was after and it was only two lines.  If I could open a quick-access window with a text-editor feel that was correctly formatted to already have the localhost IP typed in and maybe 10 spaces then let me type in the site name to be blocked.  Clicking "enter" would take you to the next line to add site if needed and a save button would write the whole string to the end of your current hosts file and save it (which takes Admin rights) back where it belongs in the ETC folder.
As in:  "127.0.0.1         www.I-Hate-These-Ads.com"

A utility like this would allow anyone to add them on the fly as needed.  Sounds like it would be a nifty tool. 
Better yet, take it one step further and make this a "browser Add-in with a Button on the bar.  Or on the desktop so it could work with any browser.  Click it to add the current site in the browser address bar to the Hosts lists correctly formatted to block it.

  Might as well wish for the Moon while wishing!

 
Having it's counterpart for the LMHosts file would be nice although I have only had one time when I ever needed to use it  Bu that One time was a Life Saver .
Another nifty feature would be that some kind of Text File/Icon Notification be added to the desktop to let others know the HOSTS file was not "Normal". 

I have run into situations where I spent a lot of time fighting what looked like a weird network problem only happen to think about looking there and find that someone had already pre-programed the Server IP to the old server and unless you just happen to think to look   It can be very frustrating.     Changing to a new network server with a new IP was almost impossible with that built-in reference still there.  Not sure where the best place would be to put it but any kind of notice that would be easy to see that said  "Hosts File has been Modified!" or some such would be nice.

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Post New Requests Here / Add a File/Send/Link to Word or Notepad++ or other program to IE 11

« on: March 16, 2014, 02:00 PM »

I know this can't be as hard as it seems.  I cannot find a way to add anything to the File>send> options in IE11.  They don't seem to be connection in any way with the Send To: Options under Roaming so adding other options there only helps if you two-step send th shortcut to desktop, then right click, "send to" again.

I can File>send>page by email which is fine and I can even send it to myself but again that takes a lot of typing when sending the page to Word would allow me to even edit it before saving.  Better yet, file>send>page +shortcut (or favicon or hyperlink) to WORD.

Click it, word opens, page is added, hyperlink is written and I am left with a document to add comments to and save.  Even the name of the document would default to the most part of the hyperlink since WORD does that anyway.  The first words written are the default name of the file unless changed.

Anyone have an idea of how to do this?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: File Send Link by email as a Single Hotkey without having to leave the webpage

« on: March 12, 2014, 09:56 PM »

I thought I would add something to this thread that belongs here from my mention of a piece of malware I wanted a fix for.
Conduit or Sweetpacks or whatever they go by these days.  What I needed was a way to find and remove every registry key name or value that contained the word "conduit" with as little muss and fuss as possible and of course providing the necessary backup of everything it removed.

Count this Request as FOUND!
 
I have to give 5 stars to an Old Hand at this I have not seen much in a while.  JVR Powertools 2014 from Macecraft software.
Interestingly enough, they have gone to "crowd funding" as a way to just put the entire package into the public Domain and at last check they were almost 30% of the way to reaching their goal.  But only 11 days left in the run, maybe someone else here can benefit from their Powertools program.  It is a very well designed toolkit of almost anything you could ask for.  And can't beat the 30 day 100% working free trial with no nags.     http://www.macecraft.com

More on the project at http://www.indiegogo...tools-as-open-source.

Does everything I needed and much more.   Works perfect for those "browser helpers" from Conduit that are almost impossible to completely get rid of.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quick and Easy way to change all IP's for several Maped drives

« on: March 12, 2014, 06:34 PM »

client to gateway, of course.  Otherwise it would not be blocked.    ISP's just want to be paid for Business se even if it is only occasionally
As stated:  Users is at HOME.  That is why the issue.  If they were on a business internet, no problem.
As for the WDN, I haven't had any problems with it lately.  Like for 4 or 5 years?  Should I have?  Of course, I did add the referenced QDN to the matching IP in the Hosts file correctly in both the server and the client systems (I have never known why the Server would need to know its own name but I was told to do that once a long time ago and it solved the problem once and for all).  As for all the mapped drives, that has always been a complaint of my own.  Technically hese could all be subfolders of the main USERS folder with permissions mapped.  I inherited this mess running on Server 2008 R1 and am just trying not to rock the boat too hard.

Thanks for the help though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quick and Easy way to change all IP's for several Maped drives

« on: March 12, 2014, 11:46 AM »

This would be nice but I have a question.  I used to always use the persist= /y but found that it compounded my later problems of changing the links.  Once set with persist, we had a dickens of a time getting them to release the mapping to a new setup for either the same folder or a different drive letter.

Write a bat file that does the net use k: /d and net use k: \\x.y.z.n\share /persist=y for all drives.

But you should really consider to start using the server's name instead of the ip, as windows is perfectly capable of resolving that, even in a workgroup.
When replacing a server, just turn off the old server, and give the new server the same name.

-Ath (March 02, 2014, 11:52 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quick and Easy way to change all IP's for several Maped drives

« on: March 12, 2014, 11:39 AM »

THAT  looked interesting.  I will read the whole thing shortly.
What I was hoping for was some utility that would do automatically what I am doing manually,
like Net Use * /delete.
But that does not always work

Worse, if you run as admin in windows 8,  for some odd reason the drives you create with net use as admin can then only be accessed when logged in as admin  
windows 8 seems to have changed a lot of the way mapped network drives are configured

PLUS  I have a suspicion that they have exempted Server 2008 R1.  I ran into a similar thing with Server 2003 a while back several years) in an office where most people had XP, one person had Windows 7 and one had Windows 7 Ultimate.  

It turned out (after a LOT of head scratching and a lot of Nobody knew why) that Windows XP and Server 2003 were fine,  Windows 7 Ultimate and Server 2003 was fine,  But windows 7 anything else other than Ultimate was NOT fine.  They were upgrading the whole office to Windows 7 and did not want to buy ULTIMATE for a workstation.  I ended up having to upgrade the Server it was cheaper.
This was only a simple workgroup, not a Domain setup.  I never did find out what was IN the ULTIMATE version that was not in the Regular Version but it sure as heck worked that way.

And now I see a similar pattern with Windows 8.1 (Which should have been called Windows 9 as it is completely different, needs different drivers for almost everything)
We are (as is everyone) having drive mapping issues.  Can't figure out what they changed this time.

While I'm at it, tell me this.  Do you know of any way to set a router such that all traffic originating on port 445 is re routed to another port so that people whose ISP's block 445 can connect their VPN and map to a servers sshared folders?  The SMB protocols require port 445 which many ISP's block.  Supposedly to give you better "security"  yet the same ISP does not bother to be so "protective" if you have a business account.  Then the port is NOT blocked.  What it mostly does is prevent people from working at home on their Home internet unless they pay extra to get Business Internet (or rather pay extra to Unblock those ports)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Adding link to webpage when using cut and paste into notepad from a website

« on: March 11, 2014, 11:02 PM »

WOW.  sounds like Zotero would do pretty much what I need.  maybe more.  But.  Firefox Only>?  what happened to alt he AIAE programmers?
I can use FF and for that part only it might be worth the change.

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Living Room / Re: Problem with Office 365 and Windows 8

« on: March 11, 2014, 10:33 PM »

I appreciate the help and all.  The "snafu" at this point has two components (I Think!)
One is probably not related to the other.  The OneDrive issue is a person gripe.  Only the two people who have DELL's are affected.  I checked.
The Default setup with OneDrive is not changed in a couple of others.  This is a recent (s of last Friday) complaint that was dumped in my lap so I have not thoroughly researched it yet.  But I have spent MANY hours of reading. It is just an "issue" with me that it is even possible for someone to be saving document in a CLOUD drive and not be made 100% aware of the fact.

The other one is the "time to send" that lapses from the click of the SEND button on the email to the time it actually leaves you laptop.
That is a clear as I can make it I guess.

And Why will it proceed to send faster if the User Also clicks the real Send/Receive button.

Personally, I believe it is directly related to the manner in which they use Outlook as a filing cabinet.
But I cannot explain why the extra click speeds things up.

Their PST files are beyond HUGE!  And I am certain they are bloated to enormous proportions.
If I could reconcile the reason for the extra click working I might get a "pass" from the owner.
But I am certain it is more that Outlook has to file that tiny single email somewhere in the GIGANTIC LOCKER of her 13GB PST file.
13GB is not even unusual.  I  have seen 17GB.  I have also seen a 15GB PST that just completely blew up.  I have warned them repeatedly but they want results, not warnings.

Yet they refuse to change for POP/SMTP for reasons of...
Call it Techno-Fear.  They don't Understand IMAP even though their cellphones and IPAD's all use it.

The thing is, they want to be able to "look back' at every single email hey sent or received for over 3 years and they want it all right at hand.

At one point, I did experiment with creating additional PST data files that outlook is Very happy to open and list in the Navigation panel.  But the one time I did that, it worked until she got a new laptop.  That one had Office 365.  The only way to get her email Into it (and not worry about problems) was to IMPORT and that screwed up my nice organized 15 PST files of 1GB each instead of one 15GB pst file.

It took me the better part of a day to do it once.  I don't want to try again and not even sure Outlook 2013/365 would work that way.

(It also creates a bunch of unnecessary folders in each PST by default which I had a heckuva time getting "hidden" as they cannot be deleted apparently.  Like extra Sent and extra "deleted" etc.   an extra set of default folders for each pst.  The PST's were just the places she files all of her email and it worked out much better.  A filing cabinet that WORKED like a filing cabinet and No Problems with Bloated PST files.
Just Too Much work to set it all up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Office 365 and Outlook

« on: March 11, 2014, 09:47 PM »

 
Yep on all that

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quick and Easy way to change all IP's for several Maped drives

« on: March 11, 2014, 09:45 PM »

thanks.  been there and done that.  It used to work just fine too.

The problems are all in the registry and deletion of the mountpoints2 locations using fixes part of it.
This has been an issue in Windows for a long time.  If you map through use of Net Use instead of the GUI, it does not always work as it should.
Especially with Windows 8.

I have found that if I "clean house" in the registry all things go swimmingly.

But I don't want to send someone I have never even met off deleting registry entries.
These are usually employees I have to support remotely.

The Server itself isn't the issue.  The sever-name is not a problem.  The problem seems to be something in their copy of windows that insists on using the IP after the VPN connects to that IP rather than using the QDN of the server..  These systems are not "on the local network:" they are all logging in through a VPN.

Also, we have no Domain  and no AD Server.  This is a simple Workgroup setup.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Adding link to webpage when using cut and paste into notepad from a website

« on: March 11, 2014, 09:38 PM »

Thanks and I will try that too.
The problem is either pure laziness or simply "too many irons in the fire"

I was trying to find a script that would automatically ADD the browser link to the opened page in WordPad or Notepad++ as the "header" in effect.
so that when I open the save document each time, the actual working link to the page it cam from would be right at hand.
I am currently doing as you suggest but the extra steps to get the hyperlink into the page are tedious.

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Living Room / Re: Problem with Office 365 and Windows 8

« on: March 11, 2014, 09:33 PM »

Sorry missed the last one.
Window 8.1 and Office 365 with all updates.  On Office 365  there is only one version that I know of?

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Living Room / Re: Problem with Office 365 and Windows 8

« on: March 11, 2014, 09:29 PM »

I will try to answer as best as I can.
(1)  Outlook 365 IS for all intents Outlook 2013.
I don't want to start an argument on that part but it can be easily tested by installing 365 and disconnect the internet.  Word, Excel, All of it, Will continue to work fine no matter how far in the future you run the clock.
I have read multiple posts on this and to be honest I don't know who to believe.  BUT, ALL laptops I have seen in the past 3 months ALWAYS have Office 365 TRIAL preloaded.
With a major PUSH toward using it.
Also, until about a week ago, there wasn't a real issue at all.  If you clicked Browse, the system would BROWSE your local C drive.
True, you COULD click your SKYDRIVE account and browse it too but it was NOT the default.  NOW as of about a week or so ago, it is.
this is reflected in numerous posts all over the web,.
     http://answers.micro...0e-a513-0a3a17b7700a

I have reams of printout that I am going through trying to find the way to make this not happen.  There are so many threads where others are also looking I cant keep up with them all.  The best suggestion I have seen yet is to simply dump 365 for Office 2010.
    http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/31690-onedrive-save-documents-default-windows-8-1-a.html

It isn't so much that ONEDRIVE (aka SkyDrive)   CAN be used, it is that you are forced to do it since a Windows 8.1 upgrade.

We just had one girl who was used to browsing to the location to save her documents.  Now when she uses Browse in Word to Find a folder, it takes her to her ONEDRIVE (she did not even sign up  for it).  She started asking me what was wrong with out internet because it took so long now to just save a document.

  http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-81-skydrive

As stated in the link above this was all done in a Pushed patch on a MS Tuesday update.
no one was ready for it.  It is my belief that since she happened to use her personal email name in her HOME system setup that when she added it to her Office system, it automatically linked it to her Home SkyDrive,  But whatever the reason, we cannot get rid of it.

I appreciate all comments and no these systems were not built by a nephew of the company,  These are brand new Dell, HP, and Toshiba Laptops.  But to be honest the DELL's were the first and the worst offenders.

At least so far.

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Living Room / Problem with Office 365 and Windows 8

« on: March 11, 2014, 01:32 PM »

I posted this in the other software forum as well.  Normally I would not waste electronic space but this is an Urgent request for any information that might be of help.

Does anyone have any info on a way to prevent Office 365 from EVER using Offline mode.  I understand the reasons for it but I have a lot of people who don't.  When they hit send, if the item says it sent, they expect it to be gone.  Then the recipient may not get the item for hours because it really did NOT get sent but put in a cache waiting for the next internet connection.  There is not indication to the sender (or not one they ever see) that this item did not really g out.  It is not in the Outbox and shows in the Sent box.
And eventually it does send.  But on items of an Urgent nature this is a  Nightmare!

I can even understand their reasons for the request, they just want Outlook to work the way it always has.  I have tried to research this but it almost looks like no one even wants to discuss it.
If she hits SEND, and it does NOT really go out for whatever reason, she wants it to show that by staying in her OUTBOX so she KNOWS it is not sent.

All attempts to explain the "new way" that Microsoft forced on everyone with the "OneDrive" default has been a total nightmare at most businesses.  and If there is NO other way, I might have to suggest they go back to Office 2010.  Although I am not even sure that is possible as far as importing the new PST file from Outlook 2013 (365)  into Outlook 2010.

This company uses Outlook like a Giant Filing Cabinet and learning NEW ways here is not a good thing.  The new laptops all come Windows 8 preloaded with Office 365 ready to go.  I know Office 2010 works fine on windows 8 as I build my OWN systems for my use and for the servers.  They run Office 2010 with no problem on windows 8 and Server 2012.

So right now, any help would be appreciated.  I just spent 3 days to find a way to unravel the "OneDrive" default and get rid of it.  Most people here did not even notice that they were defaulting to ONEDRIVE instead of their local systems other than complaints about the OPEN and SAVE being SLOW.  I almost missed it myself.  The only evidence being the address bar on SAVE showing
"httP://" instead of c:\

Getting rid of ONEDRIVE is worse than a cockroach infestation.  It just wont go away.  In addition is played havoc with locally mapped network drives in our office. 

Right now my only concern is Outlook 365 as this is a desperate request direct from the Owner and I hate to tell her I simply don't know the answer yet.  I hope someone here does.