by admin | May 23, 2016 | Administration
[:en]Scenario You try to copy a large file (.iso, .vhd etc) to an external drive which is USB 3.0 compatible. First, Windows Explorer shows a great transfer rate like 400 MB/s or higher, but in the end the window freezes until you wait a very long time or disconnect...
by admin | May 23, 2016 | Home Automation, PHP
[:en]In a smart home environment, you may want to send various notifications to every active OE / Kodi station, e.g. a “garage door is open” information at night. This information might come from any source like KNX server or similar. To open a popup...
by admin | May 18, 2016 | Administration
[:en]Using a Brother printer in your LAN, this message might appear: The selected printing device is different from the one you last used … Message in German: Der ausgewählte Drucker ist ein anderer als der zuletzt verwendete. Wenn Sie denselben verwenden...
by admin | May 11, 2016 | Administration
[:en]Using Windows 8.1, your task manager might show that a whole lot of CPU capacity is taken by a process called taskhost.exe According to Microsoft’s official article, this happens if a local account username of Windows 8.1 contains the word...
by admin | May 9, 2016 | Administration
[:en]Scenario On every Exchange server reboot, on every client which has Outlook currently opened a new dialog prompt appears, asking for user credentials. After the server has finished rebooting, everything goes back to normal, but most users have to enter their...
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | Administration, Linux, Software
[:en](NOTE: Starting with the end of 2016, Xeams is not free any more. See notes below.) Scenario You use e.g. Exchange Server 2010 or 2013, maybe using the integrated anti-spam features or a server addon like Kaspersky for Exchange, or Avast for Exchange....
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | Administration
[:en]Before Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 workstations accept Windows 10 upgrades from your internal WSUS server, some modifications have to be done. Add MIME type “.esd” to your WSUS machine’s IIS Manager. Otherwise, the upgrade images cannot be downloaded....
by admin | Feb 15, 2016 | Administration, Mobile phones
[:en]First, install Ubuntu. E.g. v14.04 LTS, server edition, as a virtual machine, with static LAN IP. Run these commands to install StrongSwan: apt-get update apt-get install strongswan apt-get install strongswan-plugin-eap-mschapv2 Firewall settings: iptables -A...
by admin | Feb 11, 2016 | Administration
[:en]Scenario Using MS Exchange Server 2010, you might get spam e-mails from external hosts which use your own domain name as sender. Solution Tell Exchange to only accept mails using your domain name if they come from LAN. This setting has to be done on your...
by admin | Feb 2, 2016 | Administration, Software
[:en]This tutorial shows how to make your DNS server contain up-to-date DNS CNAME values, according to which workstation the user is logged in. Example: User foo uses Windows station bar. The administrator would like to access his PC for doing some tasks via VNC, SMB...
