I just became a Devolutions expert...

Hi,

I'm proud to say that I just became a Devolutions Expert, it is a close group of IT experts (only 10 was picked from all the world) who should help the Devolutions community.

I hope I can keep the expectations...

Free way to clean outlook contacts duplicates

Hello,

there are a lot of tools to remove duplicates outlook contacts but they are all (from what I looked) either free and do not work or work but costs money.

I found a free way to clean those duplicates.

1. Download GO Contact Sync Mod
2. Create or use a Gmail account for the settings of the program
3. Sync all the contacts to Gmail by selecting the "Outlook to Google Only" setting option
4. In Gmail go to contacts and then use the duplicate tool to clean the duplicates
5. Sync all the contacts back to Outlook by selecting the "Google to Outlook Only" setting option (making sure that "Sync Deletion" is selected)

That's it, you are free from duplicated...

Snir

How to create a windows service that listen to a TCP port

Hello,

I've been looking for quite a while now for a way to create a windows service that just answer on a TCP port that I configure, didn't needed it to do anything just answer...
I needed it to utilize our F5 load balancer in a way that our help desk guys could remove a server from the pool by stopping a windows service.

So, the searches ended here is the recipe for the windows service TCP port answerer:

The Ingredients:

1 srvany.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17657

1 iperf.exe from https://iperf.fr

1 command line

1 registry settings

How to:

First Download the files and save them in a local directory (lets say "C:\TCP_Service").

Then, run he following command:

sc create TCP_Service binPath= "C:\TCP_Service\srvany.exe" start= auto

You can replace the TCP_Service string (after the "create" word) with any name you want (you can run sc create /? for more options)

Then save the following lines between the "====" as a parameters.reg

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCP_Service\Parameters]
"AppParameters"="-s -p 1234"
"Application"="C:\\TCP_Service\\iperf.exe"


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You can change the location and port (here it is 1234) to what ever you like (the location is the same location of the srvany.exe file from the previous step.

Double click on the parameters.reg file and answer yes to all.

Run services.msc and you will see a new service named TCP_Service, start it.
Open cmd and type: telnet 127.0.0.1 1234

see that it connects...


Enjoy...

More efficient clould backup

Hi,

Following my last post on Using Syncovery and Amazon to backup your data to the cloud I moved to Google Drive sync.
I still use Syncovery as my windows sync tool and I use DriveSync on my android.
The low price caught my attention - 2$ for 100Gb per month, the lowest (reliable) could backup I found.


Have a good backup...

Snir

Unable to browse to \\tsclient\c path

Hi,

I tried to browse the \\tsclient\c path when connected via RDP with drive mapping in the client

I could not find the mapping, after a lot of searched it seems that the client had NoDrives restriction and if your drives are hidden you would not get mapped via RDP.

Link to microsoft page on registry restrictions

Link for GPO settings

All settings can be on user based (Registry - HKCU, GPO - User Configuration)

Link on how to tweak the GPO for different drives

Hope it helps...

Finally a media player to inherit kmplayer

Hi all,

for years I used kmplayer as my media player, in the last year after panda TV bought it it started to brake down. started to be heavy and uses web advertisement - just hell.
I looked and looked but could not find any player with all the features.
A second prob'em I had was windows 8 tablet I started using 2 months ago, it seems that no one thought about a very good player for windows tablet.
And then came PotPlayer, this is a full featured player much like kmplayer but with more benefits like "touch" section for tablets.
Here are some options and configuration screenshots:

Main Screen:

Touch features:

Right-Click on main screen:

 Preferences window:

You can download it from Download.com (don't use the auto-update feature)

Update (13/4/14): 

• more current version is available at http://www.dvbsupport.net/ (event more updated than the "check for update feature)
• In the latest update they added more touch features...

Get machine IP via script (and check if it's up)

Hi,

I encountered a problem, I have a list of servers from AD and wanted to get the IP on each server.
It seems that this is not easy, I could not find a clean way to do it on the web.

As a batch fan I wrote a small script that get's, as an input, a list of names, ping them and echo out to a file the name and the IP (so you can import it to excel easily).

You need to prepare a file named list.txt with all the names to convert to IP.

Next, create 2 files:

STEP1.CMD
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del pinged_list.txt /q
for /f %%A in (list.txt) do (step2.cmd %%A)
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STEP2.CMD
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ping %1 -n 1 -w 1| find "TTL=" > 1.txt
if %errorlevel% NEQ 0 goto end

for /f "tokens=1-3 delims= " %%A in (1.txt) do (echo %%C > 2.txt)
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=:" %%A in (2.txt) do (echo %1, %%A >>pinged_list.txt)
del 2.txt /q

:end
del 1.txt /q
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run step1.cmd and wait to the pinged_list.txt file to be prepared.

Enjoy...