Showing posts with label tips n tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips n tricks. Show all posts

Tips & Tricks: Use "telnet" To Send Email

C:\Users\damirknezev>telnet server 25

220 server.domain.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 7.5.7601.17514 ready at Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:35:04 +1100

Tips & Tricks: Robocopy

The best way to copy terabytes of data within Windows.

Tips & Tricks: Ping a Range of IP Addresses

A way to ping all addresses from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 once, wait 100ms for a reply and display only addresses that are getting a reply.

Tips & Tricks: Retrieving Mailbox Stats in Exchange 2007

[PS] U:\>Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft Disp
layName,@{label="TotalItemSize(MB)";expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()}},
ItemCount > c:\mailboxes.txt

Tips & Tricks: TeamViewer 'Unnamed Devices'

Just a quick update on TeamViewer's [Unnamed Devices] and if you find yourself with a bunch of them in your [Computers & Contacts] list.

Tips & Tricks: Freezing Visio 2010 on Surface Pro 4

If your Microsoft Visio 2010 keeps freezing on your brand new Surface Pro 4 the issues is with a conflicting dll file.

Tips & Tricks: Disable any parent menu item in WordPress

  1. Be sure you have activated the link target in the options menu on your menu page.
  2. Insert a link menu item where the URL is anything e.g. http://www.google.com
  3. Select the just created link menu item and click on the dropdown link in the top right corner.
  4. Delete the URL from the URL target field.
  5. Easy as 1, 2, 3 ... 5 ...

Tips & Tricks: Windows 7 x64 not recongnising all available RAM

It appears having the 'Power Management' mode in BIOS set to Power Saving halves your available RAM which Windows recognises.

Tips & Tricks: Delete a stuck print queue

Run an elevated command prompt using 'Run as Administrator'. You'll know you're running as the command prompt as an administrator when the heading of the command prompt says 'Administrator'.

Tips & Tricks: Adjust AutoFit Row Height in Excel

To adjust the height of the row to fit all the text in a cell, follow these steps:
  1. Select the row you want to adjust the height.
  2. In Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and in earlier versions of Excel, point to Row on the Format menu, and then click AutoFit.

    In Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and later versions, click the Home tab, click Format in the Cells group, and then click AutoFit Row Height.

Tips & Tricks: Renaming Network Connections in Windows 7

Open up your Network and Sharing Center and simply left click on the Icon (under View your active networks) to rename it. By default this icon is a house.


Tips & Tricks: Fuji Xerox DocuCentre 1085 Default Password

The amount of times I've had to find the default username and password for the Fuji Xerox DocuCentre 1085 is countless.

Username: admin
Password: x-admin

When accessing the web interface of the Fuji Xerox DocuCentre 1085 if you attempt to change any settings you will be prompted for this username and password. The default that the copier is set to is in my experience not clearly identified in the manual.

Tips & Tricks: Restart Gnome Panel

Gnome-panel are two Gnome panels that sit at the top and bottom of your Desktop. To restart the Gnome panels type:

@her###:~$ sudo killall gnome-panel

Tips & Tricks: Linux shell command to display contents of a file?

The best and easiest way to read a files contents via the shell command is with the less command which also allows you to scroll the files. However there are a few other alternatives like cat, head, tail, tac (for reverse output) and of course more. Try them all out and see which one you like best.

@her###:~$ less filename

Tips & Tricks: cp with forced overwrite

I was recently trying to copy a directory over an existing one and kept getting prompted if I wanted to overwrite existing files even though I was using the force option.

@her###:~$ sudo cp -Rf dir1 dir2

Tips & Tricks: Change Linux Computer Name

I recently ran into a situation where I wanted to change the computer name on my Linux box to meet a certain naming scheme but couldn't remember for the life of me where and how to do it. This guide will hopefully save you the few minutes it took me poking around my machine trying to find it.

Tips & Tricks: Restarting a Remote Windows Computer Using Command Prompt

Having moved all of our servers in to a cloud based environment we now face the challenge of restarting them remotely when they cease to respond via remote sessions. One easy way to do this is to control them via the command prompt.

Tips & Tricks: Restore a lost Microsoft Show Desktop icon

The 'Show Desktop' icon in the Quick Launch toolbar isn't a normal shortcut. If you accidentally delete it you can't recreate it the way you would a shortcut to a program. Instead, launch 'Notepad' and type these lines:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop


Save the file with the name 'Show Desktop.scf' in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\ username\Application Data\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ Quick Launch, where username is replaced by your actual account user name.

Tips & Tricks: Windows 7 Quick Launch Folder Location

The Quick Launch folder is located in Documents and Settings within your user folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Tips & Tricks: Roll Back Classic Gnome in Ubuntu

Newer versions of Ubuntu such as 12.04 LTS include a new interface for Gnome called Unity. I personally prefer the older interface or "classic" Gnome at least for the time being. In case you're in the same boat as me just open up a terminal window and run: