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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
I was unaware that there was quite a safety net built into this feature. Like many other people, I haven't enabled the option to erase all data on my phone a...
Read post →Here's a great tip over on TipBITS that I didn't know, but could come in handy some day. I usually have no need at all for seeing invisible files in the Find...
Read post →I recently needed to use ssh to connect to an old Cisco ASA5505 firewall. As it turns out, the Java interface doesn't work in any current version of Java and...
Read post →There's a very interesting article over on The Motley Fool today comparing Apple and Intel in an area where people wouldn't usually think they compete - that...
Read post →Apple have released the iOS 11.4 update for iPhones and iPads. The main improvement is the addition of AirPlay 2 which allows HomePod speakers to play multi-...
Read post →Download files on Windows Server Core without the Desktop Experience using the PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, with the iwr shorthand and examples.
Read post →It's long been a source of frustration for me that CAD software usually doesn't use the OS vendor's provided installers and instead they roll their own. Vect...
Read post →I had an issue where I couldn't start a web server on a Windows Server as something was already listening on TCP Port 443. netstat -a -b just showed me that...
Read post →I'm too tired to write up more background information on this, suffice to say I spent quite literally hours searching for this and I want to be able to easil...
Read post →Remove a cloud Active Directory user profile from a Windows 10 workstation via Advanced System Settings, User Profiles when Control Panel won't show it.
Read post →Trigger Exchange Online Archiving immediately instead of waiting a day by running Start-ManagedFolderAssistant in PowerShell.
Read post →By continually refining methods and technology, by constantly evolving and pushing and exploring new areas of technology. One of the earlier breakthroughs wa...
Read post →Microsoft have published a white paper - Microsoft Password Guidance that contains some very good advice on what passwords need to be to be secure against mo...
Read post →I had an issue today with trying to create an image of a brand-new Windows 10 laptop (HP EliteBook x360 in case you were wondering). When running Clonezilla,...
Read post →I've got a client with Kerio Connect as their mail/contacts/calendars server. They were seeing an issue on some workstations where when the user created a ca...
Read post →Run PowerShell remote sessions to Office 365 on macOS without Homebrew by installing OpenSSL via MacPorts and symlinking it where PowerShell expects it.
Read post →In recent versions of macOS with the Server.app, the Server software has been more and more persistent about having Apache running. Even if you're not using...
Read post →The only way to be sure is to look up the serial number against a 3rd party service. You can check in the Apple Menu > About this Mac, however the model name...
Read post →If you want to do it without purchasing any additional software, format the disk as exFAT format. Windows and macOS can natively read and write ExFAT disks a...
Read post →I've recently been dealing with a really large .ics file (10.5 MB of data, 17,364 events spanning 10 years) and it seems to be able to choke just about anyth...
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