Posts Tagged: dns

0Batch script to rename PC based on reserved DHCP name

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I use WDS on a standalone server to set up new PCs and to reimage PCs when they have ended up mangled beyond repair. With a good number of PCs in my own house it is useful to reimage them ocasionally when swapping or upgrading hardware. Most of this process is now automated by an unattend.xml file but one step the unattended process doesn’t seem to support is renaming PCs back to their original name.
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0windows 8 logoWindows shares not connected after wake fixed

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I’ve had a very long standing problem where mapped drives on Windows PCs are shown as disconnected after a PC wakes from sleep or after a reboot. Clicking to open the drive results in a delay of several seconds and then the share opens. I had this problem with Windows 7 right through to Windows 10 1909. Today, thanks to a different issue, I finally cracked it.
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0DVB LogicFixed: DVBLink MCE Client first tune fail

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One of my many HTPC clients has had a strange problem – the first time it is tuned into a channel it fails with the common (and meaningless) Play Ready error. Changing channel once always seems to bring it back to life however. After much digging around I finally found the very straightforward solution
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0Tin full of spamHow to reduce spam with SPF, DKIM & DMARC

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Since I set up contact forms on various websites I’ve had a slowly increasing volume of spam.  Not direct spam sent to me, but bounces from non-existent addresses that were being spamme, apparently from my address.  Unfortunately the spam wasn’t originating from my address, but my address was somehow picked up (probably from before I secured the contact forms on the site) and was being used as the “reply to” address.  After some investigation I heard about SPF which is an e-mail anti-forgery system.

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