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AD Sync Manager written in c# - a open source tool to easily monitor and manage your AD to Azure AD sync

TheITApprentice — Wed, 22 May 2024 14:44:00 GMT

Hello code project community! 👋

I'm excited to share a free open-source tool I've been working on called AD Sync Manager. If you manage Active Directory and Azure AD synchronization in your environment, this might be useful for you!

https://github.com/TheITApprentice/AD-Sync-Manager

AD Sync Manager is designed to help streamline and simplify the AD to Azure AD sync process. It provides an easy way to monitor sync status, get alerted on issues, and manage sync cycles.

With this tool, you can:

View the status of your AD Connect sync cycles

Get notified if delta or initial sync fails

Manually trigger full or delta syncs

Analyze sync errors to identify objects with issues

And more!

It's built with PowerShell so it should be easy to deploy in most AD/Azure environments. I'm actively developing it and welcome any feedback or suggestions.

If you struggle with keeping your on-prem and cloud directories in sync, give AD Sync Manager a try. Let me know if you have any questions - I'm happy to help!

Hopefully this tool saves you some time and headaches. Let me know what you think! 😊

Help! Microsoft is pushing Outlook as my new email handler

Jalapeno Bob — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:43:00 GMT

I am using an ancient machine running Win10 (too old for Win11). I have been using the Win10 Mail program to handle email. Microsoft is saying that I have to move to Outlook. Neither Mail or Outlook integrate will with LibreOffice - or even Microsoft Phone Link, for that matter.

I am looking for an email handler which integrate well with LibreOffice. I use LibreOffice for letters, invoices, estimates, projections and the like. My most desired features are the ability to pull contact information into Writer (for inside addresses) and Calc (for estimates, invoices, projections, et al.). Being able to send contact information from LibreOffice to the email handler would be a big plus.

Does anyone know of such an email handler - preferably freeware. Please DM me for commercial or shareware products.

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in addition to my previous post

Theo Grant — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:53:00 GMT

@Richard-MacCutchan

I'll just tag you directly seeing as how you deleted my last post flagging it as spam

I don't understand why it was flagged? It's free, non-commercial and it's in the correct category. All I'm trying to get is feedback on my beta project. Is there a more appropriate thread for it? If yes, could you please point me in its direction?

Cmake feature - generates visual studio prj/sln files!

honey the codewitch — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:08:00 GMT

Under the build folder you'll find the necessary files to open your raw C++ CMake project in visual studio. Very convenient for using its debugger for example.

Not exactly a free tool, but a feature that might be overlooked.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

a free screen recorder

Southmountain — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:08:00 GMT

this OBS Studio is a great tool.

diligent hands rule....

EDID DisplayID Writer

Randor — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:07:00 GMT

Here is a neat tool for writing to the monitor EEPROM. You don't need to be Administrator.

It comes with full source code:
EDID DisplayID Writer

Fun fact: The Windows operating system makes a copy/cache of your EDID in the registry when you first connect your monitor. You could store your favorite poetry in your monitor EEPROM and probably still have a functioning monitor. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Backup your EDID if you do.

Fun fact 2: Most monitors block writing at the hardware level. But some monitors fake the "write-only" in software and can be put into "service mode" to enable writing.

If you ever find yourself in a position where you wanted to block writing. You could build an HDMI firewall.

Realterm serial terminal for engineers

crapcoder670 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:18:00 GMT

Realterm is a really great serial comms application that allows you to get right into the nuts and bolts of serial data transmission. If you need more capability than simple serial comms, this is the application for you.

https://realterm.sourceforge.io

Don't you love little websites that do exactly what you need? (UTF-8 to/from cstr)

honey the codewitch — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 22:38:00 GMT

UTF-8 encoder/decoder[^]

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx

Free Team Meeting Scheduling App for Zoom

Raj Lal — Thu, 04 May 2023 00:22:00 GMT

It is completely free for individuals to use. Try it out here Zoom App Marketplace[^]

Key generator by Mac Address

CDG10 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:47:00 GMT

I have several keys generated based on Mac Address only and I would like to know If it's possible to develop the source program that generated those keys. I have the keys and respective Mac Address and now I would like to introduce a new Mac Addres and test which would be the key generated. Is it possible?

Free AI graphics generation

David O'Neil — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:23:00 GMT

for Blender. The links are in the video description: Dream Textures - New Blender A.I Tool For All! - YouTube. According to the vid it is at least 4 gig of downloads (which you would suspect for the job).

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver

Automatic speech recognition

Randor — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:04:00 GMT

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system.

GitHub - openai/whisper

And a W3c Validator for your sites too

Joan M — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:13:00 GMT

Check this out: The W3C Markup Validation Service[^]

Free and super useful to find your nonstandard practices in your sites.

www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming

Website audits for free

Joan M — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:58:00 GMT

I've been updating our company website.

After uploading it I wanted to know if it was OK, or it had bugs or problems related to SEO and/or good practices. Found several ones, but the AHREFS[^] website is amazing.
Serious, free, offers plenty of data and in its Site Audit tab you can get valuable information on what to improve in your site.

Hope this helps you too.

www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming

PartsBin - An Electronics Component Organizer

Mike Hankey — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:18:00 GMT

PartsBin, formally WinHeist is a completely rewritten application for organizing electronic components.

A short list of functionality provided by PartsBin is given here. It is not a complete list but provides an overview of the main features of the application.

Supplier/Vendor database.
Ability to define external tools.
A comprehesive order system.
Define applications to open documents. For example assign SumataPDF to open PDF files (datasheets).
Component name entered in free form. (max. 80 characters)
Set component image.
Storage Location name entered in free form. (max. 80 characters)
Ability to move components in mass between storage locations.
Component may have one or more Tags.
Ability to search by Tag.
Set component alert threshold and the ability to filter alerted components.
Filter list by various component fields.
Unlimited attachments such as; datasheets, website links, etc..
Pricing for component by supplier; single unit or bulk pricing.
Component history that tracks such events as; creation, location movement and inventory count adjustment.
Project module that include Bill of Materials
Ability to; Create New Database, Open Existing Database and Backup Current Database

You can get it at JaxCoder[^]

PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer is finally available for download.
JaxCoder.com

MaxiBug issue tracker

RickZeeland — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:28:00 GMT

The conversion from a single-user issue-tracker to a multi-user version with a Postgres database is now completed.
I tested it on a Windows 10 machine with PostgreSQL 14 and an SSD. For a database with 4000 issues the first loading time will be about 1.5 seconds and subsequent application starts will be faster.
I also tried to make it even faster by using Parallel.Foreach() for filling the DataGridView, but this slowed down things instead.

It can be downloaded here: GitHub - RickZeeland/MaxiBug[^]
Note: Microsoft Edge users probably will have problems as Edge considers this to be a "virus", so using Chrome is recommended

A free REST API for your testing

Richard MacCutchan — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 08:02:00 GMT

I cam across this site while working on a recent QA, and it appears to be quite useful (to me at least).

Reqres - A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests[^]

I tried it using the Java HttpRequest method and it works well.

Is there a tool that injects javascript into the location bar of a web page?

Member 15078716 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:45:00 GMT

A web browser. A location bar. Javascript can be manually typed into it and run from there on the web page which is showing.

Is there a tool that does that?

Example:
A web site might have offensive images that are included from a different site. The javascript could search the html for those images and change them to a blank space. Thus, the user of the web browser looking at that site would see it loading, but before those offensive images show up the html of that page is changed to not showing those images.

Does this exist? What is a link to it? Have you used it? Does it work?

I know that someone wrote one years ago in Visual Basic 6 that worked very well. I would like to have one that is current.

Thanks.

Bulk Crap Uninstaller

thatraja — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:07:00 GMT

Clickety[^]. Portable Version also there.

Found few native language craps surprisingly & cleaned up.

thatraja

Coming soon1 | Coming soon2 | Coming soon3^New

Need to design your new home? do it easily and for free!

Joan M — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 19:54:00 GMT

This looks like spam...

OK, check the web site Easy 3D Home Design Software (Interior & Exterior) | Cedreo[^]

It offers a simple, free way to design your new home.

Tried it and in almost no time I've been able to design our new flat.