Hello there. I hope you're having an amazing, fantastic day. Welcome back to Why In The Morning. I try to prefer channel is where you can find us across all our social media handles that Michelle Ashira is where you can find me across all my social in studio. I am joined with a gentleman who will be taking us through all matters pertaining security. So our topic of conversation is we're looking at what it takes in running a successful security agency. In studio I'm joined by Charles Muema who is the managing director at the National Guard Kenya. Thank you very much Charles for creating time to be with us today. Thank you too. Karibusana. You look very very nice. Thank you. Thank you. So Charles take us through where this journey all began. At what particular point did you decide to you know I am going to open a whole security firm and what problem are you solving at that particular time? Yeah it began at a point when I realized that we despite the fact that we had a lot of players private players in the industry but very many of them were not committed to quality and they were rather doing business. They were in need for business. They were in need for the revenue that the industry can bring to their pockets but they were not there for the benefit of the clients. They were offering presence and not the service as it is supposed to be. And for you what did that mean? That meant that we there was the need to have a professional player in the industry. We have a few who are very committed to quality but again we have a myriad who are not committed to quality and that is why a few years ago a year the government formed the private security industrial regulatory authority so that the standards could be regulated. However it has been difficult for the authority to do that. We have a few companies that have complied with the authority and a myriad of them have not complied but we are getting there. The standards have to be where the customer is happy with the service. So for you it's all about the quality and quantity and profits? Yeah it's all about the quality. Profits come later. Oh right, important. Very important. I agree with you 100%. That is what makes business. So how did it all start? When did you start? National Guard was founded in 2014. Apparently running a security company is not easy because you can find yourself in the market for around three or four years without a single client and you are doing a lot of marketing. It is very possible. So it is weird and it is difficult but once you break into the market, once you break into the industry then you are gone. Things become easy for you. For how long have you guys been running? Okay the company was founded in 2014. Our first client was in 2017. Wow. What was the disconnect? What did you learn? Because from 2014 to 2017, three years later that's when you got your first client. Marketing is a factor. Okay. But besides that, the client has to comply to your standards. So you will find clients who are ready to give you business but they are not willing to comply to your standards. Okay. When I say that you must make the client comply to your standards is that they must understand that you have a staff you are supposed to pay and they must be happy while working. They must be well-kitted. When I talk about kitten, I mean their uniform. They must be probably they must have an insurance cover to cater for them and their families.  Let's get to look at the kind of services that you people offer the National Guard Kenya. We offer several. We offer critical infrastructure security. We offer transportation security. We offer cash management that is a many people refer to it as a cash in transit. We have a K9 department. Okay. What's a K9 department? A K9 department is what many people refer to as a dog unit. Okay. When there's a crime, we see officers with dogs try to sniff if they probably drug or something. Yeah. K9 is a professional name while the dog is an old title that probably does not give the right the right meaning to the professional work. What do you feel that way? You know a dog? Okay. You understand a dog? A dog may simply not be the trained one. A dog may be the dog we know that we find we will meet in the streets. Yes. We have the small ones that we keep in the houses. Oh, domesticated. Yes. But now a K9 is a trained dog. Either trained in sniffing, either trained in tracking, trained in attacks. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. Okay then. So what is the painter picture for us if I'm a client coming to you guys? So from all their services that you provide, do you listen? How do you get to engage me to feel how to understand that I meet the requirements to your standard that you mentioned earlier on? We listen to their needs. We carry out our needs assessment. We evaluate their capability to meet our standards. We engage them in areas where we find they are wanting. And in very many cases, we find that they may not be able to achieve what we require from them as at the first beginning. But with time, they can get there. Okay. So what is Unish in the market because you have so many security firms currently? I can say we are in the top 10. What's Unish? What's your value proposition? Is it a different now? We offer different things. Okay. For example, we have just rolled out an application. Okay. As a matter of trying to improve the street safety of everyone. So we are rolling this out to everyone. It's a mobile phone application that can send alerts to you throughout the country. Okay. How incidences are taking place, where they are taking place, so that you can know which routes to use and which routes not to use. We have theft cases. The issue of crime has really increased currently. We have seen whereby a traffic officer, this phone got stolen. And then we have also seen also civilians whereby there's so many coverage from CCTV cameras that showing that. So what is, how do you, is there where we can curb that situation or that problem? Yeah, there is a possibility of curbing that kind of a problem. But the biggest players here has to be, the government has to be the biggest player because unemployment is a factor that is playing out in matter security. And we have very many idle people. And in this plane has a crept into the society. So trying to manage that is a challenge to everyone. But for those who value safety and security, we will always try to do our best to bring it down. Okay. For someone who is watching this conversation and they love this sort of a kind of a business and they would like to get into the security industry. What sort of educational background does one need to be? Who is eligible to work in this space? One thing they need to have secure, prior security experience, because again, they will go through vetting by the government to, so that the government can understand you. Where are you educated? Where have you been working? What kind of experience are you bringing into the industry? Then from there, they will gauge whether you are someone who is capable of running a security company or not capable. In cases where they are finding you are not capable, then they advise the government, advises through the relevant institution on the way forward. All right. So let's look at what determines the prices of your services and how do you calculate your security guard by billing? These ones are determined by very many factors. You have to evaluate the risk ratio. There are areas where the risk is high. Other areas where the risk is very minimal. You also have to evaluate the standards of your client, because we have a client level. You need to understand their level so that you don't end up offering a sub-standard service to them or you don't end up burning out the company resources on something that is not relevant to the required requirements. So you evaluate the needs first. They must give you the opportunity to evaluate their needs. Probably they might not understand their needs as you understand them when you meet in the first instance. But with time, once you explain to them, then they understand where they should now start talking from. Oh, the same thing that you mentioned earlier about the insurance cover for your employees and what they need probably when it comes to the outfits, the uniform. So from your experience, you've been running for approximately seven years now. So what are the crucial things a business startup should consider? Pay attention to when just starting out. They should pay attention to training. One thing, if you want to make sure that your services are appreciated, then you must train your staff. You must train them regularly, not just training once. Once you train them, you must also learn to conduct a on-job training on areas where you feel that they are lacking or they are not competent. You must also give attention to appearance. Your services must be offered with passion, not simply to make a living. They must be passionate about what they are doing. That's the only way to make the client happy. So how do you guys offer training before you even continue? Yes, we do. And who is eligible? We are concentrating on a curricula that has been approved by the government. That curricula sets standards right from who is eligible to become a security guard. We are trying to move away from the previous situation where school dropouts looked at security as their point of employment. We are getting to a point where you have to complete your education so that you can be eligible to be trained as a security officer. Security is not simply about watching. Because you need someone who can evaluate situations. While they are working, they can evaluate situations, they can make independent decisions, and they can know when to act and when not to act. I like the way you have put it, because most people look down. We have a section of people who look down at the security industry aspect of it. And just to get into in depth and how broad it is, we've even brought about the issue. Is it K9? K9, the issue of the cargo and transit. So there are so many different sections that people can actually get into this particular industry. Allow me to take you back. You mentioned something which is very intriguing that you guys started in 2014, but you got your first client in 2017. And you gave the reason to why. And I would like to us to go through the, how did you guys go about finding your customers in your new security guard company? And apart from marketing, what else can someone do? Just to increase their chances of meeting their potential client. Apart from marketing, you also have to attend forums with other directors and other security managers, where discussions are made on the best practices in the industry. Then from there, you get a selling point. I also mentioned to you that we conduct consultancy, travel consultancy. For example, our first client was a foreign institution that had won a certain contract to come and construct something. Now, we had already engaged previously because we were offering them travel advisory. They would ask when it is best for them to come, what the situation is in the country. And they might not depend on what very many people read in the newspapers because they wanted to depend on something that is coming from people who understand safety properly. So, when they were coming here, they already knew that they have a security provider around. That's how we landed our first client. Actually, you have to put in the efforts. You must put in the efforts. So, what are the things that have enabled the growth of your business? Commitment, sticking to quality, and ensuring that the client is happy. Because again, very many of them will refer others to you if they are comfortable and they find that your services are of quality. Yeah, referrals also is a factor. Others, very many of my clients have referred their friends to us. Yeah. All right. For this particular type of business, which is in the security sector, which is the best platform for marketing? Social media. Although when you market in the social media, again, there are very many people who call, want a job. Oh, yes. I can imagine. You see that. So, you can use outdoor marketing like billboards. You can brand vehicles. The social media is a challenge, is a factor that is challenging. Because you can imagine, very many investors are not into social media. So, it is difficult for you to find someone who wants to become your client through the social media. But very many of them, especially Facebook, very many of them will get to you through your websites. They'll get to you to get to know you probably through vehicle branding or billboards. Yeah. A couple of challenges that you're facing in this business? Security equipment, especially the cost. The cost of security equipment is very expensive. It is very high. However, we have a few players who lease out. We have a few companies that sell security equipment and they're willing to lease them out. That is an area that we have considered. We find it working for us. We don't know whether it has worked for other companies, but it is an approach that we are using. Okay. Fantastic. Would you confidently say that security agency is a scalable and viable business to start? Yeah, it is scalable and viable, but you must stick to professional conduct if you want to succeed. What I mean by professional conduct is that you must treat people like people. You must treat your staff with care. You must make sure that they are happy. You must provide the right equipment for the right job. You must make sure that your staff are well trained. You must make sure that they are well-kitted. They are smart. Well, they are working. You must keep on finding out what the client finds is a challenge to them. Are they happy or they are not happy? In areas where they are not happy, then you find a way of addressing that. All right. For the four of you who are young people watching this, what is your life mantra that they can live up to? To do what they want to do with passion. Let them do what their heart tells them that it is the right thing to do with passion. If they want to make a living, let them do it with passion. Whatever they are going to do, let them do it with passion. Okay. How can people find their cross-social media handles? We are on Facebook, National Guard Kenya. We are on LinkedIn, National Guard Kenya. We are on Instagram, National Guard Kenya. We are on LinkedIn. Yes. All right. Thank you very much, Sir Charles, for creating time to be with us. We appreciate a lot. Thank you. Thank you very much for this time. All right. If you want to keep the composition going with Charles Muema, who is the Managing Director of National Guard Kenya, make sure you follow up with them across all the social media handles that is National Guard Kenya and keep the composition going at white with a four-channel is where you can find us across all our social media handles at Michela Shirai, so you can find me across all my social media handles at Michela Shirai. 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Welcome, Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar, and this is Retro Radio Sunday on Weird Darkness. Each week I bring you a show from the Golden Age of Radio, but still in the genre of Weird Darkness. I'll have stories of the macabre in horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. If you're new here, welcome to the show, and be sure to subscribe or follow the podcast so you don't miss future episodes. And if you're already a member of this Weirdo family, please take a moment and invite someone else to listen in with you. Spreading the word about the show helps it to grow, and if you're here because you're already a fan of nostalgic audio and print, you'll want to email WeirdDarknessatRadiorchives.com. When you do that, you'll get an instant reply with links to download full-length Pulp audio books, pulp e-books and old-time radio shows for free. That email address is WeirdDarknessatRadiorchives.com. Coming up, it's an episode from Murder at Midnight. Murder at Midnight was a 30-minute show featuring macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist, and created by some of radio's top writers and voice actors. In 1946, Louis G. Cowan, Inc. transcribed which is an old term for recording, programming house, began creating a series of crime fiction dramas slotted for late-night listening. It had one of the higher production and cast costs for syndicated programming for that time. The host was Raymond Morgan, who delivered the memorable lines of introduction over Charles Paul's effective organ theme. The series is known to have probably started April 19, 1946. Murder at Midnight was issued by several transcription services, and the show titles and show numbers were different on all of them. The season one shows at RadioArchives.com, which we'll be listening to tonight, came from a set of McGregor and Ingram discs, and the show numbers are taken from the discs themselves. Being syndicated, though, stations could broadcast the programs in any sequence on any day of the week. For our purposes tonight, we'll be listening to the episode The Dead Hand aired March 7, 1947. In the story, a concert pianist loses his left hand in a horrible accident. He later meets a pickpocket with very nimble hands and realizes that if the pickpocket were to die, he wouldn't need those nimble hands any longer.  Midnight. Oh, wait. Come back here. Wait, nothing. You're nuts. Crazy. And no, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. But I had to have it. I'm going to have it. And once you're dead, you'll never miss it. Midnight. The witching hour when the night is darkest. Our fears are strongest and our strength at its lowest end. Midnight. When the graves gape open and death strikes. How? You'll learn the answer in just a minute in The Dead Hand. And now, murder at midnight. Tales of terror and retribution by one of radio's best known mystery writers, Robert Newman. Its title, The Dead Hand. The small studio cottage on Dr. Martin Trent's estate. Seated at the piano alone in the gathering darkness is Roger Blaine, the famous pianist, and playing as only he can play. But you hear me, Lorna. You must hear me. You must come. Hear now to me. I'm calling you, Lorna. Calling to you in a way you could never resist. With my music. Making your heart beat faster.  Lorna. Am I disturbing you? Always, Lorna. Just as I disturb you. As we disturbed each other since the first time we met. Martin's out at the hospital and I heard you playing. That's not why you came, Lorna.   What we talked about last night, my going away with you? Roger, I must have been madder. I don't know what got into me. Don't you, Lorna? This is what got into you. My music. Telling you things I never could tell you in words. Roger, stop. I can't think when you play like that. I can't believe him. He's my husband. I love him, respect him. Love. Can you love a surgical instrument? Can you compare what you feel towards him with what you feel to...now? This minute? No, it is different. Roger, how can we? He's your friend. It was he that brought you here, gave you the cottage. And haven't I given him anything? Music like this. Music such as no one has ever heard before. Roger. Lorna, listen to me. To what I'm saying here. I love you. I need you. It was you who helped me find depth within myself. I never knew it existed. You've got to come away with me. You owe it to me, to yourself, to the world. Roger, please. You want to...you know you want to...and you're going to... Roger, no. I can't. I tell you. Lorna. Lorna. Alright. Lorna. We can talk to Martin when he gets home tonight. Tell him. I think he understands. No, Lorna. There'll be no talking, no explaining. My car's outside and we're leaving right now. The music, my music, was still with me as we drove out through the gates down the highway, pulsing, throbbing. Yes, I could hear it, but could Lorna? My glance started sitting there beside me. Happy, dearest? What? I don't know, Roger. You don't know? Don't you realize what this means, Lorna? I'm playing better than I ever played before. And this is only the beginning. After my New York concert, South America, then you're... Roger, are you sure you love me? Me as a person. My sure. What do you mean, Lorna? I know you've said your due, but whenever you've talked about it, Roger, about us, you've talked in terms of your music. Roger, are you sure that's not what you love? Well, of course I'm sure. If I didn't have my music, if I couldn't play, I don't think I could live. I know. But it was you. You who lifted me to heights I never dreamed of, technically, emotionally. Roger, stop the car. Turn around. Take me back. What? Take me back. I don't understand. I do. For the first time. With Martin away so much, I was lonely, flattered by your attention. And your music was like a drug, keeping me from thinking. But now I can think. And I know you don't love me, and I don't love you, so please, Roger, take me back. No. But, Roger, can't you see this whole thing was a mistake? It was not a mistake. And I won't take you back. Well, I'm going back, whether you take me or not, and if you won't stop the car. No, no, no. Let go of that brake. Let go of that ditch. We're going. We're going to. When I opened my eyes, I was in a bare white room in a hospital. Standing next to the bed, Lorna and Martin. Hello, Roger. How are you feeling? Well, I don't know. What happened? You were out driving with Lorna. The car got out of control and you had a smash up. They rushed you here to the hospital. Well, you've been here for two days. Smash up? Yes, I remember. Are you all right, Lorna? Yes, Roger. I was shaken up. Oh, especially the fingers. Nothing happened to her, did it, Martin? I've got a concert in a few weeks, you know. Roger, don't stop it. Why are you looking at me like that? Don't worry about it, Roger. Not now. Well, I've got to know. I've got to see. Roger, please. What did you do to me? Roger, I think you know how I feel about you. About your music. You've got to believe me when I tell you there was nothing I could do about it. Nothing.  My life? And what is my life without my music? Nothing, worse than nothing. A living death. Why didn't you let me die? Don't say that, Roger. We'll do anything we can. There must be something. There's just one thing. You've got to get me another hand. We will, Roger. There have been some wonderful developments in prosthetics as it was out of the war. No, no, no. I don't mean an artificial hand. I mean a real hand. What? Roger, you're mad. No, no, I'm not. You took my hand and you'll get me another one. We'll talk about it some other time. You think I'll forget about it, don't you? Don't you? Oh, I won't. I say I'm going to have another hand and I will have one. And what's more, you're going to help me get it if you're here. You're going to help me. I was able to get up and around a few days later. I didn't talk to anyone if I could help it. Because somehow I couldn't ever look at their faces, only their hands. Big hands and little ones, long-fingered ones and stubby ones. Yes, they each had two hands and I, I to whom my piano met more than life, had only one. Then, sitting alone one evening, I met Hook. I looked up and there he was, a small, slight, sharp-featured man. Hello. Nice evening. Yes, I suppose it is. Hey, mind if I sit down for a couple of minutes? No. I wouldn't usually bust in on anybody except it. Well, I'm getting out of here tomorrow and I feel pretty good about it. Oh, what was wrong with you? Bad heart. I'm going to have to take it easy from now on. It's going to make it kind of tough in some ways, but you don't happen to have a cigarette on you, do you? Well, yes, I do have. At least I did have. Silver cigarette case, I can't see. Is it fine? Is it? What? Oh, yeah. Where did you find it? In your pocket. You mean you took it? My name's Harris, Joe Harris. He usually called me to hook. This is my racket. I don't know what it was until, like, your pickpocket. Oh, well, one of the best in the business. But now with my ticket going bad, I guess I'll have to lay off, except like now for a gag. You didn't mind, did you? Mind? Certainly not. I'm very impressed. As a matter of fact, do you mind if I look at your hands? Look at it? What for? Beautiful. This beautiful pair of hands as I've ever seen. It occurs to me that you say that you don't know what you're going to do when you leave the hospital here. Well, I just hadn't thought about it much. Why? I've got a proposition that might just might possibly interest you. No kidding. Why? Well, I'd rather not discuss it with you here and now, but I expect to be leaving here myself on Friday. If you'd like to come and see me sometime after that. You say where and when. Well, I've been staying at a little cottage on Dr. Martin Prince's estate. I'll probably be going back there. How about Saturday night? Late, around 11.30. Fine, okay with me. Then it's a date. I left him there, hurried back to my room. I wanted to be alone. Had to be alone, for I was afraid that what was on my mind might show in my face. It certainly was a date. A date with death.  Will both of them still be alive to hear it when the clock strikes 12 for murder at midnight? And now here is Roger Blaine to continue murder at midnight. I did leave the hospital on Friday, went back to the little studio cottage. By Saturday night my arrangements were completed. They went very complicated. I made it clear to Lorna and Martin that I wanted to be alone and I picked up a length of iron pipe. The pipe I hid inside the piano when I heard footsteps coming down the path. It was a knock on the door. Come in. Not too late am I? No, you're not too late. Hey, pretty nice place you got here. Yes, it is quite nice. Sit down. Oh thanks. Now what's this here proposition you want to talk to me about? It's a very simple one. How would you like to make $10,000? What do I have to do? You don't have to do anything. Just sell me something. You're left-hand. What? Hey, you're nuts. No, I'm serious. Look at the money right here in cash. I don't get it. I just don't understand. Look, I'm a musician. I'm a pianist. Or I was until I lost my hand. If I can't go on playing then life doesn't mean anything to me. I own life or anyone else's. But you, how important is your hand to you? Now, an artificial one will do almost as well. And you can live for quite a while on $10,000. You mean you really thought I'd sell you my hand?  I'm getting out of here. Oh, wait. Wait, nothing. I said you were nuts, but I didn't really think... Well, what are you going to do with that? No. No, don't you can't. Someway, somehow I'll get you for this. I swear. I'm sorry, Huck. Very sorry. But I have to have it. I'd rather not go into what happened after that. I... I got rid of the body. Then I went to see Martin. You don't look well, Roger. Anything the matter? No, I just came to see you about your promise. My promise? Oh, you're dead, whichever you choose to call it. I told you I wanted another hand, that I was going to get another hand, and that you were going to help me. Well, now you can help me. What? What do you mean? Look in here, in this package. See? Good Lord. Where did you get this? It might be better if you didn't ask too many questions. I'm fighting for my life, for more than my life. You took my hand away from me. Well, now you can give me this one.  Why not? Operations of this sort have been done, haven't they? With other parts of the body? The eye? The cornea, not the eye. And some nerve grafting has been done. But this...  Know it better than you. You're not a well man. Oh well, man. I'm only half alive, and I'd rather be dead than go on living this way. But if I do die, I won't die alone. That's why I brought this along. Roger, I got it. Quick, easy, painless.  And so does Lonon. Both of you, along with me. You... You don't give me very much choice. No. All right. You win. Get me the hospital. Even before I became fully conscious, before I opened my eyes, I knew. Knew that it had been done. That it wasn't his hand anymore, but mine. And still, there was something wrong. I couldn't analyze what it was at first, but it was there. A feeling that something wasn't quite right. That perhaps it wasn't entirely my hand. I sat up. The hand was a mass of bandages stiffened with splints, and inside the bandages... Careful, Roger. Don't touch them. Oh, Martin. I didn't see you. I've been here with you ever since last night. Last night? You mean I... I've been out that long? 24 hours? It was very important that you keep quiet. You've been under sedation. Oh. Oh, yes, of course. This isn't the hospital. No. I brought you home with me, back to the house. I thought it would be best for several reasons. Oh, that's very smart, Martin. We don't want any questions to him, not yet. You did do it, didn't you? What? Oh. Oh, yes. I knew you would. You could. And it's going to work. It is working. I can feel it. Please, Roger, you must be careful with that bandage. You can't touch it, move it, disturb it in any way. I won't, Martin. But I don't have to. I tell you, I can feel the fingers moving even inside this. And in another week or so... We'll see. Yes. We'll see. Got a cigarette, Martin? Of course, I have it right. That's funny. What is? Well, a cigarette case that was right here in my breast pocket. I must have left it downstairs or at the hospital. It doesn't matter, I can do it. Martin? Yes? I think... Here. Yes, here. Here it is. Under my pillow. What? How did it get there? I don't know. It must have fallen out when you bent over, but... No. Why are you looking like that? Because... I think I know how it did get under my pillow. What do you mean? When fingers learn something, a special skill. They don't forget it, ever. Mine never have. Even when I'm not thinking of what I'm doing, they go on playing by themselves. These fingers here, they haven't forgotten either.  I don't remember. Forget it. I forget it. I'm awfully tired all of a sudden, Martin. Would you mind? No, Roger. I'd like you to get as much rest as possible. There's a friend of mine coming here tomorrow to see you. Another doctor. That's fine, Martin. I'll see you in the morning. Yes, I was tired, but that wasn't why I asked Martin to go. Because I wanted to be alone. Because I had to be alone. Because I knew now what it was that I'd only sensed before. The hand. Hook's hand. Had a will of its own. It had picked Martin's pocket without my even being aware of it. I lay there alone in the darkness after Martin went, not touching the bandages, but flexing the fingers, forcing them to obey my will. I had to do that. I knew I had to do it. Because I suspected what might happen. And what did happen proved that I was right. I fell asleep, finally. And while I was asleep, I dreamed. I dreamed I was walking down a dark, labyrinthine corridor, somewhere under the earth.  Just a little closer. Who's there? Who's there? Just me, waiting for you. Yeah, Hook. I said I'd catch you. No, well. All the darkness came a hand that clutched me by the throat. Grip to tighter. Tighter. Tighter. I fought against it. I tried to scream and woke up. Yes, I woke up. And my waking was more horrible than the dream for the hand was there, gripping me by the throat. Moaning, exerting every ounce of my strength and will. I fought it off, bathed in a cold sweat, staring at it, feeling the fingers quivering inside the bandages. My hand or his, I was tied to it now.  Shaking convulsively, I leaped out of bed. I ran out into the hall and down the stairs to the living room, the piano. That was the one thing that might save me, save my reason. Seating myself at the piano, I started to play, using only my right hand at first. But I tried to force my left hand, his hand, to join in. Then suddenly, no, Roger. That won't work. Yes. No music. Stop it. Stop it. Do you hear it? It's my hand now. It's mine. No, Roger. Never. But it is. I'm stronger than you are. Nothing is stronger than I am. Nothing in the world and a snow escape. Because we're one now, Roger. And wherever you go, I'll be there too. It's not true. It's not. What? What are you doing? Just a little closer to the desk, Roger. A little closer. That paper knife. No, you can't. But I can, Roger. I told you I'd get you somehow, someway. Put it down. Can't fight against me, Roger. I told you. I'm too strong. Roger! Lanna! Quick! The head is safe. The head is... The living room. I heard the piano and... Good, good Lord. Roger! He's dead. He was saying something about a hand. He was in a completely psychotic state as a result of shock and a sense of guilt. The state psychiatrist was coming tomorrow to commit him. Oh, Martin. That hand he brought me wanted me to graft on. I, I don't know where he got it. But I suspect that was behind the whole thing. Behind it? Yes. Well, what do you mean? You don't really think I did graft it on, do you? Why? He was desperate and I had to do something to quiet him. I splinted his left wrist, wrapped it in bandages, and told him not to touch them. But, Martin, that paper knife, it is just... Which hand is holding it? It was right on his good one. Yes. And still, in a way, it's possible that the dead hand the one he was so concerned about did guide it. Arise wide with awful comprehension. Lawn of stairs at her husband. Then down at Roger Blaine's body is somewhere in the silent house. A clock starts chiming for murder at midnight. Remember to be with us again when death stretches out his bony hand. And the clocks strike 12 for Murder Midnight. With music by Charles Paul. Murder at Midnight is directed by Anton M. Leder. Thanks for listening to this week's Retro Radio Sunday episode of Weird Darkness. If you haven't done so yet, be sure to subscribe or follow the podcast so you don't miss future episodes. And if you like the show, please share it with someone you know who also loves old-time radio and pulp audio. If you want to hear even more, drop an email to WeirdDarkness at RadioArchives.com and get an instant reply with links to download full-length pulp audio books, pulp e-books and old-time radio shows absolutely free. That's WeirdDarkness at RadioArchives.com. Weird Darkness is a production and trademark of Marlar House Productions. Copyright, Weird Darkness 2023. I'm Darren Marlar, and I'll see you next week for Weird Darkness' Retro Radio Sunday.


Hawaii is my mainland. In the next coming weeks, we will be having some guest hosts on this show. So come back on Fridays and you'll be treated to guests from mostly aligned with the Sierra Club. The palace staircase here, this past Saturday, or July 4, sorry, not Saturday, there was a historical re-enactment and several people from think-check Hawaii were involved in this production. It has to do with a holiday called Lahu Ihoiea. And Lahu Ihoiea was celebrated first in the 1840s as the kingdom sovereignty was restored after a brief overthrow by a overzealous British guy named Lord Admiral George Pollet. And it's now called the Pollet Affair. But this event was really critical because it changed the way Hawaii thought of itself and people outside of Hawaii thought of itself. It reaffirmed on the international scene Hawaii sovereignty. And since 1985, it has been celebrated here largely through the efforts initially anyway of Dr. Kikuni Blaisdale. And with me today is a young man who carries this torch for Dr. Kikuni Blaisdale along with a whole lot of other people in my Winchester. He's one of the principal organizers of the new Lahu Ihoiea, which now encompasses an amazing just all kinds of events throughout the month of July. So welcome, Emi. Thank you. Oh, it was so exciting on the fourth to see how you were able to really, as you say, galvanize with Aloha, the crowd that was there at the palace. Matt, like you said, there was a tremendous turnout for the fourth of July reenactment, a very important part of our history, our collective history. We've always felt that Lahu Ihoiea, since its establishment, that education, the sharing of our stories is important for contextualizing a lot of who we call a lot of the confusion that really was systemic over our people and was institutionalized throughout the schools. So we're given a tremendous opportunity to celebrate Lahu Ihoiea with strong leaders throughout the community. Let's have a picture of, let's see, the guy who instigated all of this, the Lord George Paulette, to give it some context. Oh, well, we don't have him. There he is. Okay. So this guy, tell us a story. This story is no secret. It can be found on many texts, but Lord George Paulette, as he were, was a minister for the British Crown, serving Queen Victoria at the time. He had certain representatives from Britain, I'm mad by the name of Richard Charlton, who was at least a bit of land from the Crown when his lease was up. There's a bit of disagreement between himself and the King about where that land should go. Lord George Paulette sort of became that military force that was able to affix Great Britain's weapons directly at Honolulu and threaten Kauikewile and the kingdom with over 10 demands and for five months, Hawaii was occupied and was run by the British specifically through Lord George Paulette. All Hawaii's flags at that point were taken down. The story say that they were all burned and was replaced with the Union Jack for five months. Now, once Queen Victoria, I should say, received a letter about the incident that had gone on. She immediately sent a man by the name of Admiral Richard Darden Thomas. Admiral Thomas became very famous for his role in the ceremonial hoi hoi, or the give-back of Hawaii's effective control, effective sovereignty, and in so doing, Kauikewile honored Admiral Thomas by naming the first public park in the kingdom of Hawaii after Admiral Thomas. We know it as Thomas Square and Thomas Square exists as a national monument and these are some of the histories that we begin to uncover when we continue to tell the story over and over again. It's a fabulous, it's a fabulous event in the context of all of the kingdom. This is like one big event that is really, everybody can get behind. It was the writing of a clear wrong. So for the reenactment, we had several people from the historical there played by our very own Jay Fidel from Think Tech, Hawaii. He was one of the guys and Peter of Carlisle and it was a wonderful way to, it's my favorite way to learn history is that kind of reenactment. And then afterwards, there was a gathering which you led and a sort of a call to unity amongst those of us gathered there, which I thought was really powerful. And you talked about some events that are part of this la hoi hoi aya. So that's really what I want to hear some more about. And this is all leading up to an event that you're having on the 30th, right? That's correct. First and foremost, I would like to give mahalo and praise to Marsha Joyner, to the net crews for Pokolainui for getting all these things together and for everybody who was behind the scene who contributed to making it happen. Because this is la hoi hoi aya is not just a commemoration of our history, but it's also a celebration of our capacity and for our people to be able to come in and share their passions, share their knowledge. It makes us all stronger. So in 2005, when Dr. Kekuni Blaisdell had sort of passed on responsibility of la hoi hoi to a new generation by being one of them, one of our goals was to really direct the celebration of la hoi hoi towards education and celebration. And to really inspire, activate and like you say, galvanize our communities to hui, you know, to gather, to come together strong. So 10 years ago, we wrote out a 10-year plan. Wow. Yeah. And in that 10-year plan, it included expansion of la hoi hoi into our communities. It included developing partnerships with different people who are action-oriented and goal-getters and doers. It was to engage about our audience rather than speak to the people who already agree with the discourse at hand. We understood that it could be an opportunity for us to expand accessibility to a wider audience, because this is not just the burden of kanaka mauli. It's the burden of Hawaii, and it includes the multi-ethnic people of it, including the people who call Hawaii their home today. In that process, we started slow and we began to develop certain relationships with people who have worked with already. For example, this month, we already had, I believe, three of our events go on. The first being July 1st, we had in coordination with halau kumana new century public charter school, of which I'm a teacher. We had a return of a stream cleanup that we invited whomever could make it, and we had about 60 to 70 people show up. Yeah, it was a really good response, and we cleared out much more than I had anticipated when we were supposed to start. The second day at Kaniakupu-Pu, which is a very important national site as well, as one of the summer residents of Kaui Keoli, also rich housed and hosted the largest celebration of la hoi hoi, where there was over 10,000 people in attendance, up in Uwano. So we want to aspire to be 10,000. How accessible is that site now? I haven't had the pleasure. Those of you who are familiar with Uwano and the back trails, going up old Pali Road, know that it's very moderate parking, I should say, but it's a walk-in. There's a lot of visitors that come and go. There's some people who continue to return every single month to take care of Dr. Barenching of Aho Hui, Malamo, Kaniakupu-Pu, on July 2nd, just led another one of his monthly clean-ups, where he provides history, provides culture protocol, and some good old-fashioned sweat to making that place come alive again, you know. And that's sort of the theme that we've adopted, is to make things come alive, restore, you know, restoration, the regeneration of our people. Not just being passive, being part of the action.  Aloha is an action. Yeah. You know, being Kanaka is an action. Being Hawaiian is an action. Being Pono is an action. You know, all those things are great philosophies to talk about when we're sitting at the table, but they mean nothing if they don't make it anywhere beyond that. So, we're interested in action. And we put a call out over the years to other communities, other islands who are interested to celebrating this event, celebrating our sovereignty, celebrating our special place in this world. Together, as a collective, it's a means of unifying. It's a means of creating a platform for our stories to be told by us. So, one of the events you mentioned was the upcoming education event that is going to happen at Halakumana. I think we have the little flyer about that. Ka hoike. Correct. Can you talk about that a little? That's your home? Yeah, that's my home base over there. So, Halakumana is one of a few Hawaiian-focused public charter schools who really spent a lot of time dedicated to culture, dedicated to politics, dedicated to the restoration of our people. Not just our lands and our culture and our knowledge, but of our people as well. So, it became a very good place for us as a selection for where to have what will be our second annual Hawaiian AI education convention. Ka hoike ea is sort of a playoff of la hoi hoi ea. Hoi hoi meaning to return something to where you got it from. So, the day that represents Admiral Thomas and Ka hoike oli that gave birth to wama o kee o kaena i kapono was about putting it back to its proper place. So, this might be a good time to correct that idea. Most people think the life of the land is preserved in righteousness, but it's not really AI, it's not life. It is sovereign to you. Well, AI is many things. The beautiful thing about our language, the beautiful thing about our people, it was just so threaded and intertwined with kauna, with layered meanings. So, yes, wama o kee o kaena i kapono. The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. But what I always like to share is that historical context is super important as well, you know? And AI is not just life, it is life. It's important that's what we're trying to restore is the life of our people, you know? It also means to rise. You know, like the tides rise. So, the people rise. Our la hoi rises. And it definitely means in the western term it's become to understand as our sovereignty as defined by our inclusion into the family of nations back in 1843, which is an important year, which is also the year of la hoi hoi ea. So, our independence is really solidified by la hoi hoi ea. So, if you're talking Hawaiian independence, you need to also understand the critical role that la hoi hoi plays. It's the evidence. It's why Lili Uokalani said we will not fight. We're going to allow law to take its course once again. Once again, because that was our experience. Lili Uokalani had celebrated this for over 50 years in the kingdom. She was a student. Everybody in the kingdom knew. It wasn't the first time that Hawai'i had been overthrown. The French had tried to do it as well. But relying on law, it was restored. So, in the 1893 American intervention, she relied not on violence, which would have opened us up for takeover, but through law, the law that every nation had sworn to. Just not every nation has committed to that oath, let's just say. I think this is a good time for us to take a little break and then come back and talk about more events for this month. We was finding the strength to be a champion. My victory is having a job I can be proud of. At DAV, we help veterans get the benefits they've earned. My victory was finishing my education. My victory was getting help to put our lives back together. DAV provides veterans with a lifetime of support. My victory is being there for my family. Help us support more victories for veterans.  I'm Kaui Lucas. With me here today is Imae Wenchester, one of the organizers of La Hawaiʻi Heia. Hawaiʻi is a very, very special celebration of sovereignty and arts and culture and history in a way that brings the general population in together to look at this in a way that's, I would like to say, playful, deeply interesting, and there's a whole bunch of actual specific separate events. So let's have a look at what we have coming on. Just put them up there for us and then we'll talk about them. So the combination of this month's total celebrations, which includes a Native Hawaiian education convention, which is actually on the 15th, it also includes a quick puhukaina malama aina session. For those of you who are interested, the following Sunday. We'll get there. But at the very end, like it says here, we have the celebration of Kalāhoʻi Hawaiʻi Heia, which would be for the first time celebrated on Honolulu civic grounds. Typically every year it's celebrated at Thomas Square, but like we've all seen, Thomas Square is under some construction right now and is physically ready for us. So we're given an opportunity to sort of take our celebration, our message to a new place, to a new audience. And so that's what our intentions are going to be. So what kind of things will happen? I mean, that's a good long time. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Yeah, it's a great day. It's a family day. We have free music. We have hula performances all day long. We have cultural workshops. Kūiʻi for those of us who love making and eating paʻiʻi. We have educational booths.  We have different groups from, let's say, Hawaiʻi Community College. You're going to be coming down and sharing some information about what they do in terms of servicing native Hawaiian students, specific to, I think, Hawaiian studies. We also have games. We've been able to elicit some help from Halimoa over the last several years. And so they come down and they provide maʻiʻi games, in case you play Ulu Maika or Paʻiʻi. They get to challenge the poʻana sometimes. If they're lucky, they get a chance of poʻana of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Come on up on the crowd. It's been a long time supporter of la hoʻi hoʻi and it comes down every year. And here we're looking at a picture of another event that's happening in Waianae. This one is another family type event. Yeah, so one of the things we're very proud about is that we've begun to expand. And so the people of Waianae sort of have taken up the call to celebrate in their own community. So what you have here is sort of a real good collection of different Waianae members coming together and taking it upon themselves to own their own celebration in their own home place. And this is what we're really encouraging for everybody on every island, including the mokue. What else have we got? I do know that it's a two-day event on July 22nd and the 23rd. There's more information for the Waianae community as well as anybody who's wanting to go down there to check out the hoʻolāleʻa, which should be their second annual celebration. And information about all of these events can be found on the la hoʻi hoʻi Facebook page. Yes, correct. We're very grateful to Detail who has been helping us out with a lot of the program, the logistics. So now we actually have a real-life website, lahoʻihoʻiad.org. All of your information can be found. If you're interested in joining us, being a vendor, all that information is there, including events throughout the month of July. So some more events there. I know where there are some sort of art space and some educational-based ones. Let's just scroll through those. That would be great. So this one. I went to this one. This is in Kaniʻohi, or Kuikū Māliōla. And this is more arts, poetry, and... Yeah, so nāhua ea is also another playoff of lahoʻihoʻi. Nāhua ea really literally meaning the fruits of sovereignty, the fruits of our rise, collectively. So this was actually put together in the hands of several poets, musicians, singers, academics, writers, including my wife, who is the lead person for this event that's coming up for there. Maybe it's the fourth year running, I think so. And it's a great way for the community to come down and to be expressive. And we really want to encourage all of the Eastside community to come down and check it out. It's going to be a great night. And if people haven't been to that place, it's a beautiful space, both inside and out. And it's sort of in a mini version. It's sort of like a Hawai'i, everything. Yeah, it's a little slice of what Hawai'i should be. Yeah, it definitely is. Pāpahāna, Kūʻohiōla, and all the good people who do very hard work over there. They deserve a lot of credit for the beauty of that place. Kanaqa are very important to Ainaw. I know what I'll come up with. And it's very kid-friendly. One of the other things I have really appreciated about these events is they're not, oh, no, no, don't bring the kids. They're all, yeah, fine, bring the kids. Kids are fine. It's very grassroots.  There's entertainment for them. We've had kid groups perform before my daughter was a part of a hana-keako put together by one of the kūmūs over at the school. So you get a little bit of everything over there. It's a great night. And there's also some, there's going to be a Makua access I saw. Also, right, so if somebody hasn't been out there, that's a very special place. And there's information on the website about going to that. The public is only allowed certain width. You have to sign up well in advance. Is there a particular tie to Laho Ihoi with that? Or is it more just because it is a very sacred space? And... Well, Laho Ihoi is the restoration of all things at Makua Valley. It was definitely a pillar, an example for us at my education growing up as seeing as the power, the restorative power of people, you know, to a place where there can be restorative power to people. So in that, yes, Laho Ihoi, we have the right connections to the people who care to take that zone. And it's been a good and natural and long-going relationship that we've had with Malama Makua. And we encourage you guys to go down there on July 23rd. Check out the access. There's a little bit of information you need to supply your name so that you can get in because it's a military firing range. But there's a lot of good stories. There's a lot of good more level to be heard and to be shared. And it's a great place to take your kids so that they can hear the story of what's happening in Makua Valley. There aren't that many places on Oahu where you get the real feeling of impact of American occupation really has been sort of very in your face at Makua. But what's also very in your face is just through the restoration work there and through the archeology that you just you can really feel the deep, deep history. And maybe outside of Koholavi I don't know anywhere where you see those two things come right up against each other, quite so in your face. Yeah, the people of Oahu and I are very very proud of where they're from and they've sacrificed quite a bit some of their lives protecting that place and sharing the message. So our responsibility as La Ho'i Ho'i organizers are to continue to give them platform to tell that story continue to honor their work and that's what we ultimately are trying to do in La Ho'i Ho'i. It's not just celebrate this past event, but we're trying to make it a means to really catalyze and motivate and provoke even more growth, more development, more struggle within our people because we kind of become apathetic to those things and I think we're at such a great capacity in our more so than we've ever been to make great things happen. Thanks to a large I would have to say a large amount of the credit goes to the kind of education that the Hawaiian community has been able to make happen like the charter schools and like Ho'i and studies it's not that much support but really incredible dedication so it must be very gratifying I think you said you'd been a teacher at the charter school for 13 years? Yep, coming up with 13 years I have a lot of appreciation for all the teachers who have made Ho'i an education possible I know what the struggles are to deal with this line of work but the fulfillment, the responsibility of the burden is something that we all must carry and for those of you interested in teaching please do we have events that could possibly kindle or ignite that flame in you we have people throughout the month of July that are doing things that are meant to take us on a positive path so I encourage whoever is out there if you feel something in there, not all something special then we can be special together There's a event happening at next door I'd like you to talk about that's another completely different realm So it's not just about restoration of culture it's not restoration of language as well it's also the restoration of our voice and some of the times that voice has evolved into music, into reggae, into hip-hop because our Lahu is so diverse in our talents and in our skills we give everybody a chance to access this history and this collective movement together so in next door on July 21st July 21st there's going to be a great lineup of local reggae artists and local hip-hop artists that really are expressing conscious music it's not the Waikiki Shell it's not that it's music for the message it's music for the movement it's music to dance and celebrate who we are and how far we've come so we invite people who are into the scene at night time party people this one is sort of meant for them for you so come down and check us out Well thank you so much Imai for giving us a little snippet of the kinds of events I mean they're not even alive they happen in New York wherever our Hawaiians are they celebrate la hoi hoi ea so wherever you are Hawaiians throughout the world if you see this on July 31st fly your flag up high and celebrate la hoi hoi together and the world will celebrate together


Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to install and configure Exchange Server 2019. Into this video, we'll explore installation and configuration of Exchange Server 2019, its active domain, and how to configure it for a full-fledged operation involving MIPI protocol, and we'll find out how to create a certificate. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. Alright, to organize a mail server, we will need one server for installation of active directory domain services and another for installation of Exchange Server. So what is active directory domain services? Active directory AD is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included into most operating systems of the Windows Server family. A server running an active directory domain service role is called a domain controller. It authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain-type network assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, active directory checks the submitted username and password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user. Also, it allows management and storage of information, provides authentication and authorization mechanisms and establishes a framework to deploy other related services. This service is a mandatory requirement for operation of an Exchange Server. Microsoft Exchange Server is a software product for email, calendaring, contact, scheduling and collaboration. The main functions of Microsoft Exchange include as follows – processing and sending emails, shared access to calendars and tasks, support for mobile devices and web access, integration with voicemail systems, support for instant messaging systems and so on. Before installing and configuring Exchange Server, you should check its requirements. I will give you the link in the description. All you need is two computers with Windows Server operating system. I'll show the configuration steps with the example of two machines with Windows Server 2019 and cumulative update 12 for Exchange Server 2019. Exchange deployment always begins with preparation of Active Directory domain services. The matter is that Exchange Server is very dependent on Active Directory. The directory services are where both the product information and user account settings are stored. Owing to the replication mechanism within Active Directory, all Exchange infrastructure has a unified configuration. This allows servers to interact with each other immediately out of the box. In the end, a computer with Exchange Server on board should be connected to a domain, and this connection requires you to configure the internal Active Directory domain. So let's work with the first server. To have the entire system work properly before installing the Active Domain service role, we need to assign a specific name to this computer and set a static IP address. Right-click on the Start button and select System. And then rename this PC. In my case, it's going to be Active Domain PC, ADPC. When the name is ready, click Next. After that, the system will notify you that renaming the computers requires a restart. So restart the server. Now it's time to configure network settings. Right-click on the Start menu or press the key shortcut Windows plus X on your keyboard and choose Network Connections, Change adapter options. After that, right-click on the Add the Net adapter, Properties, and open IP version for a protocol settings. Check the option, use the following IP address and give a free IP address. This setting suggests that you know the options of your network, so fill in the subnet mask and the default gateway data. In the field Prefer DNS server, give the IP address of this server since the DNS server role will be installed there along with the Active Directory Domain Services role. After that, click OK and close. Initial server configuration is over. Now you can begin the installation of Active Directory Domain Services role. Open the Start menu and run Server Manager. In the window that opens, look up to the right and click Manage, Add roles and features. In the next window, click Next. Leave installation type as it is, role based or feature based installation and click Next. Select your server and check the box next to Active Directory Domain Services. The installation wizard warns you that the following components need to be installed. Click Add features and then Next. Leave all the components as they are and click Next. After viewing extra information about Domain Services, click Next again. Finally, click Install to begin this process. Wait until the installation is over. Now you need to promote this server so that it becomes a domain controller. Click Promote this server to a domain controller. In this video tutorial, I add a new forest, as this is an installation from the scratch. Check the option Add a new forest and give the root domain name. At the next stage, you are suggested to select the functional level of the new forest and root domain. If you are adding a new forest and planning to use server based on Windows Server 2019 operating system, you shouldn't change these options. Add a password for DSRM, which stands for Directory Service Restore Mode, and click Next. As a result, the configuration wizard will warn you that a delegation for this DNS server cannot be created, but you should just ignore it and click Next. Don't change the net-bias domain name. Next. At the next stage, you can modify database directory paths, if necessary. After that, you will see the summary of service settings. Click Next. Finally, the configuration wizard will check if all prerequisites are observed, and will show you a report. This message, all prerequisite checks are passed successfully, means that your configuration meets all the necessary requirements. Click Install to begin the installation and wait until the server is promoted to domain controller level. In the end, you will see this warning. Hit Close to a stunt. At this stage, the server is promoted to domain controller level.  To do it, sign in as domain administrator and open Server Manager. Open the Tools menu, Active Directory Users and Computers. In the window that opens, go to the folder with your domain name and then to the Users folder. Click on this icon. Create a new user. Here, fill in the following fields. Click Name, Login, and then click Next. Then set a password for this account and uncheck this option. Click Next and Finish. Now you need to add rights for this account. Open the account by double-clicking on it, jump to the tab Member of and click Add. Add the rights for enterprise admins, type the name, check names, enterprise admins, OK. Add, type the name, check names, OK. Add, domain admins, OK. Apply and OK. Now the Active Directory Domain Services server is configured and we can move on to install Exchange Server. This installation suggests that you have already configured your network, open the necessary port for normal operation of mail services, and so on. As I said before, at the beginning of this video, you need to have two servers with Windows Server operating system installed. One of the servers should be assigned the Active Directory Domain Services role. Download an ISO image of the latest version of Exchange Server 2019 from the Microsoft website. The other server where Exchange is going to be installed should be included into the domain and some additional software should be installed. Visit the Microsoft website to find detailed information about them and download the required components by following the link in the description. So, install the following items. Visual C++ 2012, C++ 2013, Unified Communications Manager API, UR ALRI right module, and Net Framework. After Net Framework is installed, the operating system will ask you to restart the server. Choose to restart later because we need to install a few other components. Start PowerShell as administrator. To begin with, install remote administration tools to prepare Active Directory for installation of Exchange. Do it with the following command. After that, add required components for Link Server or Skype for Business Server. Here is the command that you need for installation. Now install the extra components required for operation of the Exchange Server by running this command. Restart the computer after the installation of all components. Now you need to include the Exchange Server into the domain. Add DNS and change the server name. For this purpose, press the key shortcut Windows plus X. Choose Network Connections, Change Adapter Options, right-click on the adapter and select Properties. Open IP version 4 and set DNS. As the DNS server, we will use the Active Domain server. So type its IP address here and click OK. After that, open System, System Info, Remote Settings. Jump to the tab Computer Name and click Change. Change the computer's name and include it into the domain by checking this box and entering the domain address. After that, you need to specify the login and password for the Active Directory account which belongs to these groups – Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins and Domain Admins. Exchange Server is now connected to the domain. The operating system will ask you to close all programs and restart. To begin the installation of Exchange Server, after the restart you need to sign in with the account that belongs to these groups – Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins and Domain Admins. After that, you should mount the ISO image of Exchange Server which you have downloaded earlier. Open the disk containing the file, right-click on it and select Mount. After that, start PowerShell as administrator and go to the mounted disk by specifying the disk letter. Now extend the scheme for exchange with this command. After that, prepare containers, objects, other Active Directory components and create Exchange Organization by using the following command. Remember that there is the organization name at the end of the command. In my case, this is Hetman Software, but in your case it will be the name you have chosen. Now let's prepare the domain for installation of Exchange Server by using another command. Finally, now you can begin the installation of Exchange Server 2019. Open the mounted disk containing Exchange Server installation files and run the file setup.exe. In the window that opens at the first stage of the installation, you can check for updates, click Next. After that, Exchange Server Installation Wizard offers you to view the information concerning Exchange Server 2019. Click Next. Accept the license agreement and click Next again. At the next step, if you don't want the server to send error reports to Microsoft automatically, choose Don't Use Recommended Settings and click Next. Then select the following roles – Mailbox role and check the option Automatically Install Windows Server roles and features that are required to install Exchange Server and click Next. In the window to select Installation Directory, don't change anything, just click Next. Configure malware protection settings – Next. After that, the process will begin to check if everything is ready for installation. When it's complete, make sure the preparation of the organization and the server role have been checked successfully. Otherwise, the only button displayed on this page will be the Retry button. Fix the detected errors and repeat the installation. If you did everything according to this tutorial, there shouldn't be any errors at all. And instead of the Retry button, you will see the Install button. So click on it to finally start the installation. Wait until this process is complete. After the installation is over, it's recommended to restart the computer. I will do it a bit later. For checking, tick the box next to Launch Exchange Administration Center after finishing Exchange Setup and click Finish. For server management, you will use a kind of control panel – Exchange Administration Center – and it's available by following this link, where EXPC is the name of the Exchange Server. Accordingly, you need to give the name of IP address of your Exchange Server in the address bar. To have the Exchange Administration Center displayed correctly, you should add the Exchange Server address to trusted-size zone in Internet Explorer. Click on the Add button. In the field, add this website to the zone, specifying the address of your Exchange Server and click the Add button. Now the Exchange Server address is added to the trusted-size zone. Click on the Close button. To access this control panel, give the active directory domain or username or the name of a user having Exchange Administrator rights, type the password and click Sign In. This will open Exchange Center panel. To make sure that Exchange has been installed successfully, run the following commands in Exchange Management Shell. Click on Start. Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 – Exchange Management Shell. Use the following commands. This command brings up the list of names, active directory websites, exchange roles of the server and so on. The second command will display additional information about the server. The server has passed the test successfully, so now you can start configuring Exchange. Alright, so we have configured two servers – Active Domain Directory and Exchange Server. In order to have email circulate, you need to create users, add a network connector, add data on external virtual folders, configure external DNS, create a certificate, set up the Autodesk Cover feature and so on. To be able to send and receive emails and create clients, you have to complete basic configuration for Exchange Server. This is a must-have step after you have installed this product. And now, let's find out how to create a mailbox for a new user. In the Exchange control panel, open the Recipients tab and jump to Mailboxes. After that, click on the plus icon and choose User mailbox. Fill in the user data. Select the organizational unit where to include this user by clicking on Browse – User – OK. In the field User Logon Name, give the login the mailbox name. After that, set the password and click on More Options. In the section Mailbox Database, click Browse, and choose the database where the new mailbox should be created. Finally, click Save to finish. After the user with the mailbox is created, it will appear in the Mailboxes tab. Now you can use these credentials to login to your mailbox. Another important option for proper work of the mail service is Network Ports. Mail clients need these ports to access mailboxes and other services in the Exchange Server. If you have firewalls or network devices that can limit or modify internal network traffic, you should set up certain rules that allow free and unrestricted interaction between the servers. To configure the network with the NAT technology, you need to forward the ports used by specific services on the router. If your mails don't circulate or you encounter an error related to network ports, check the firewall or configure your router properly. Let's continue with the server setup. The first important option is an Accepted Domain. An Accepted Domain is a domain used by an Exchange Organization to send and receive mail traffic. By default, there is only one Accepted Domain available immediately after the deployment. If necessary, you can add one more domain or configure the existing domain for your specific purposes. After that, you need to add a send connector. In Exchange-related infrastructure, connectors are required to handle incoming and outgoing mail flow on Exchange servers and also between services in the transport pipeline on the local Exchange server. To enable the mail infrastructure to interact with external systems by SMTP protocol, we need to create a new send connector. Open the Mail Flow tab and then jump to the Send Connectors tab. Click on the plus icon to add a connector. There are several connector types available – internal, internet and partner. To send an email outside of the organization via the internet, you'll need an internet connector. Give a name for the new send connector and check the internet option. In the next page, specify how to send email, either with an MX record or through a dedicated smart host. An MX record is a type of DNS record that redirects email using SMTP protocol. In our example, mail will be sent with the use of such records, so choose MX and click Next. Now, you should specify for which domain the new connectors will work. Click on the plus icon and type an asterisk instead of domain name. This means that the new send connector will handle all domains except yours. Save. Next. After that, specify on which server the send connector should be created. Click on the plus icon and choose your exchange server. Then hit OK and finish to create the connector. At this stage, you should configure DNS records for the domain. To do it, open a web browser and go to the Control Panel to manage external DNS records for your domain. I'll show it with the example of Cloud Flare Service. Here, choose the domain for which DNS records need to be configured. Then create the following – MX record, mail, SPF, auto discover, and so on. After DNS is added, you can go back to further server configuration steps. The basic configuration for exchange server doesn't end with adding an accepted domain and setting up connectors. One more thing is to set correct URL addresses to connect clients. For starters, let's add an external URL for Outlook. Open the Service section, jump to the Service tab and choose Edit. Go to the settings Outlook Anywhere and set an external domain. Now let's type the address by which your mail server is available from the Internet to the exchange server configuration. To do it, open the tab Virtual Directories and then click on the Arrange symbol to add an external domain. Add your server by clicking on the plus icon. In this field, type your external domain and click Save. After that, the external domain will appear in the settings of each virtual folder. By default, Exchange Server uses an API protocol for mail services. For this mail protocol, the current settings you have changed will suffice. The external domain you have set up by which exchange infrastructure will be available is required to issue SSL certificates. SSL certificates are very important for operation of the exchange server. They ensure protected exchange of data between clients and components of the mail infrastructure. By default, Exchange Server is configured to use a Transport Layer Security, TLS protocol with self-signed certificates. However, this configuration is not always correct for connecting Outlook clients. As a solution, it is recommended to use PKI or Public Key Infrastructure. Using with Exchange Server 2019 cumulative update 12 and Exchange Server 2016 cumulative update 23, Microsoft removed the Certificate Import-Export parameter as well as the new Exchange Certificate Request parameter. To prevent misuse of UNC paths via attackers, Microsoft removed the parameters that take UNC paths as inputs from the Exchange Server PowerShell commandlets and the Exchange Administration Center. That is why you won't find that functionality in these updates. To add and import a new certificate, Microsoft suggests using the following commandlets. There are numerous certification centers, both commercial and free. In this example, I'm using the following free service, Let's Encrypt, which lets you create a certificate for three months. You also can use a well-known service as SSL.com. This resource offers public digital certificates, cloud signature services and PKI enterprise solutions. I won't be showing the process of requesting an issued certificate, so let's suppose you have one. To import a certificate into Exchange, you should start Exchange Management Shell and run this command. Or specify your server name here and give the path to your certificate in the end. After the import operation, you will see the new certificate on your Exchange Server Control Panel. After that, you should specify the services to use this certificate. Open the certificate by double-clicking on it, go to the section Services, and check the ones you need. Then click Save to finish the processes. Alright, so we have configured the mail server, and now it's time to check if the mail circulates properly. Open the mail app in Windows and add an account. Choose Advanced Setup, Exchange Active Sync. As you can see, it requires username, domain address, server name and account name, in addition to email address and password. Since I added the DNS record for Autodeskover service to the Control Panel, I'll show you how to use it, and do it without entering these settings. Autodeskover is the service that automatically sets up mail clients such as Outlook. This is an obligatory requirement to ensure proper access and uninterrupted operation of the hosted Exchange service. The Autodeskover feature reduces to a minimum the user actions required to set up and deployment, and provides users with access to Exchange functionality. For EWS, which stands for Exchange Web Services Clients, the Autodeskover feature is typically used to find the URL address of the EWS endpoint. Autodeskover uses the CNAME DNS record for your domain, and I have previously added this record. Now you only have to type the email address and password in Outlook, and all other settings will be added automatically. Now, the basic configuration for Exchange Server 2019 is over. If you have any questions concerning Exchange Server, post your comments to let us know, and we may cover them in our next video. And that is all. Hopefully, this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Thank you for watching and good luck.


Hello everybody! Today we'll have a look at resetting or restoring a password to a Windows account. Let's consider cases when you can't access other accounts on this computer or the operating system at all. Windows uses the SAM system to store and manage user passwords. All information inside is safely protected and it's not easy to extract it. However, very often you don't need to know the password. Just reset it and sign in without a password. Let's have a look at how you can do it. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browse in history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. For specialists, we'll answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. The most well-known free utility for resetting Windows passwords must be offline and T-password and register editor. Find the link to the official webpage in the description. This utility doesn't have a graphical interface, but still it's very simple and easy to understand. There is no graphical interface, because it works for my boot disk, that is without booting Windows. That's how it gets access to the password storage, because you can't reset the password from the running operating system. So in order to start offline and T-password and register editor, go to the Utilities webpage and select the Boot Disk tab. And download an archive for USB. USB140201.zip files for USB install. As you can see, there is also an image you can use to create a bootable CD. Still, it seems to me that today it's easier to work with a USB drive. Extract the archive. These are the files for the bootable USB drive of the offline and T-password and register editor. As you can see, it's just a selection of files that you use to create such a drive. Later, you'll use the drive to start offline and T-password and register editor to reset passwords. I recommend using WinSetup from USB for creating such a bootable drive. I'll explain my choice later. This utility is also free. Find the link to the official webpage in the description. Use it, extract and run. Start the version meant for your version of Windows. I have Windows 64-bit. Insert a pen drive into the USB port of your computer. Select it. In WinSetup from USB. Check the auto format and don't change NSNLs. Then check the function which makes us use WinSetup from USB. How to create a bootable USB drive? In offline and T-password and register editor, we need the last one on the list, SisLinux Boot Sector. If you use another option, the USB drive created with offline and T-password and register editor will not work properly. Show the pass to the folder containing the previously downloaded files – USB 140201. Click Go. Yes. Yes. And wait until the bootable drive is created. Okay? That's all. The bootable USB drive of the offline and T-password and register editor is ready. Now let's move to the computer where you need to reset a Windows password. You can see there are several accounts there. All of them have passwords. To reset a password to the account we need, let's boot from the USB drive containing offline and T-password and register editor. Booting a computer with this USB drive is the same as booting it with any other bootable drive. Connect the drive to the computer and set USB as the first boot device in BIOS or UFI. There is a special video about it in our channel. Follow the link in the description to watch it. In the first blue-colored window, press Enter. After that, the interface of offline and T-password and register editor boots. Please read carefully what it says. The author of this utility gives you no warranty and bears no responsibility for the possible damage it can make. To continue booting offline and T-password and register editor, press Enter. Then read carefully what the utility says. He tells you what to do next, what options to choose and what keys to press, depending on what results you want to get. Step 1. Select the number of the partition where Windows is installed. You could guess it by the size. In fact, until the last stage, the utility makes no changes to Windows, so if you made a mistake, you can just start the password reset process again. The utility determines the system partition itself and suggests that you should select it. The hint says 1. So type 1, Enter. One technical data is showing. I press Escape to show the hint menu, which says you should press Enter to see the next line, press Space to see the next page, press Q to exit, and press R to view the remaining information. I press R. As a result, you'll see a menu where you have to select what you do next. I select the first item, password reset, as where are you going to reset the password? 1. Enter. Step 3. Fixing the password or registry. Select the first item again. Edit user data and passwords. 1. Enter. As a result, the program shows the list of users that has names of accounts registered with the sub-rating system. It suggests that you enter the RID number of the password you want to reset. Have a look at the chart. There is a username column which shows user accounts. Next to every account, the first column shows its unique RID number. Select which one you need, type it into the special field, and press Enter. Now you can see the menu where you should select what the program will tell to the user account. Have a look at this menu. In addition to resetting the password, you can unlock an account, change the account, type to administrator, add a user to a group, or remove user, and the exit option. I select one, reset password, and press Enter. That's all. We're almost finished. Once in the program, enter Q, press Enter. One more time, Q, press Enter. I agree to make changes by typing Y and pressing Enter again. Refuse to continue working offline anti-password and register editor, and, which means no, remove the USB driver, CD, and restart the computer. When the system boots, you can see there is no need to enter a password to sign in as this user. Click Sign In. That's all. The password is reset. This way, you can reset a password to a user account if there is no access to such account at all. It's not the only free utility for this purpose. There are others, such as John the Ripper, Aircrack, NG, Rainbowcrack, OPHcrack, and so on. All that you've seen by now suggests resetting a Windows password. If there are several user accounts in one computer and you have access to one of them, then restoring access or finding the passwords to other accounts is also possible. However, Windows-integrated tools can help you because of local security policy. Nevertheless, you can use third-party apps to learn the password to other Windows accounts on this computer. For example, ElcumSoft Reactive System password recovery, or Loftrack7. You can find the links to download these programs in the description. I should say it once – they are not free and their price is high, but they might be the best of the kind. I'm not going to make a detailed review of these programs, but I'll show you how to use them to see or restore a password to a Windows account. So let's begin. Start ElcumSoft Reactive System password recovery. The interface is extremely simple, and using it doesn't require any special knowledge. Options in the main menu will be enough to view passwords to all accounts. In the Logon Password tab, you can see the data on the current account – name of the computer, username, permissions for auto, for auto-logon, and a password hint. Clicking on the recovered hashes tab, you'll see the data on all existing user accounts on this PC. In my case, there are two of them – Irina and Valery. Others are System, which is noted in the remarks. System password recovery shows you all the information about them. The RID numbers we already heard about – LMHash, NTHash, Account status, password hints, and passwords. The program has a lot of functions, but we won't examine every option. For our purpose, even a few will be enough. Now the passwords are broken. By the way, this utility has a free trial version. It has limited functionality and only shows two first symbols of an account password. Loftrack 7 – this tool is also available for free trial. It's limited by 15 days of use or by viewing information on 10 accounts. Now start the program. Select Password Audit name visit. If you need to find out passwords to other accounts on this computer, just keep clicking Next. Select the operating system, local remote machine, credentials type, audit type, reporting data to show, and so on. As you can see, I leave everything at default for an ordinary computer. As a result, the scanning process will start. In the end, the program will show the accounts it has found and the corresponding data on them. This information includes passwords as well. They will be shown in the column and DLM passwords. This way, you can get access to Windows accounts and their data even without knowing their passwords. If you need to know, in addition to the user account data, the user's browsing history for every browser, restore deleted browsing history, view messages sent and received in social media, then I recommend a specialized tool. 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Ultrasonic Sensors The ultrasonic sensor is a device that uses high-frequency sound waves to detect objects. An oscillator circuit inside the sensor's housing produces a frequency that causes a crystal disk to vibrate and emit sound pulses. Each pulse is emitted away from the housing. If an object, called a target, is within the sensing range, a sound wave will be reflected back to a receiver in the sensor to indicate its presence. The frequency of ultrasonic waves is above the range that can be heard by humans. The two categories of ultrasonic sensors are proximity switches and analog sensors. The difference between the two categories of sensors is the type of output signal that they produce. Let's look at these ultrasonic sensors. Proximity switches The proximity switching ultrasonic sensor detects the absence or presence of a target. The sensor will switch on when an object is detected within its sensing range. As soon as the object is no longer detected, the sensor will switch off. Analog sensors The analog sensor produces a variable output signal. A variable circuitry inside the sensor begins counting from when a sound wave is launched and stops when the reflected wave returns. The farther the target is from the sensor, the higher the count because the counting occurs over a longer time duration. The count is converted into a proportional analog output signal. Therefore, the magnitude of the output is proportional to the distance between the sensor and the target. The output produced by an analog ultrasonic sensor is a variable voltage or a variable current. The most common type of voltage output ranges from 0 volts to positive 10 volts. You can see the ranges below. The most common type of current output ranges from 4 milliamps to 20 milliamps. Calibration procedure Most analog sensors have the capability of varying the range at which they can detect a target. This function is performed by a procedure called calibration. The desired minimal distance at which the target is placed from the sensor is called the zero calibration setting. At this distance, the voltage sensor will produce a minimum output value of 0 volts and the current sensor will produce a minimum output value of 4 milliamps. The desired maximum distance at which the target is placed from the sensor is called the span calibration setting. At this distance, the voltage sensor will produce a maximum output value of 10 volts and the current sensor will produce a maximum output value of 20 milliamps. Zero setting Let's suppose that the desired minimum range of a target is one foot away from a current sensor. Adjust the zero screw until 4 milliamps is measured at the sensor's output. This is the zero setting adjustment. Let's suppose that the desired maximum distance of the target from the sensor is 33 feet. Let's adjust the span screw until the ammeter measures 20 milliamps at the sensor's output. This is the span setting adjustment. After the zero and span settings are made, the sensor produces a linear output that is proportional to the distance that the target is located from the sensor. For example, an analog signal of 12 milliamps will be produced if the target is 17 feet away from the target. Let's move the target through the sensing range and observe the results on the graph. Ultrasonic sensors are used in such applications as measuring the diameter of a roll being wound in a paper factory or detecting the presence of a box on a conveyor belt. In process control, ultrasonic sensors are commonly used to measure the level of a solid or liquid in a tank. However, they should not be used if a layer of foam exists at the top of a liquid. Inaccurate readings will also be made if a mist is present in the vapor space above the liquid because sound travels through a mist at a different speed than it travels through dry air. The controller to which the sensor is connected can be programmed to convert 20 milliamps to indicate that the tank is empty and 4 milliamps when the tank is at full capacity with 75 inches of material. Ultrasonic sensors are ideal for non-contact position and distance measurement and object detection. You have completed this activity, Ultrasonic Sensors. If you liked this video, please subscribe to our channel and we'll let you know if we have something new for you to learn.