My questions and answers on Quora
I've been moderately active on Quora for a while now. Quora is a site where people can ask questions and others can answer them. The blurb about the site say...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Deep dive into Apple's recent High Sierra root authentication issue
Over on the highly-technical, and very informative, Objective-See blog, there is a great in-depth writeup on Apple's recent High Sierra root access bug . Why...
Read post →If you're running macOS High Sierra, make sure you have this update installed NOW!
If you're running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, run, don't walk, to the App Store and install Apple Security Update 2017-001 right now. If you want to download...
Read post →Download older versions of macOS Server App from the Apple App Store
I recently set up a new Mac mini server for a client. macOS High Sierra was released 3 days ago, however the server shipped with macOS Sierra and I thought i...
Read post →Create Windows Installation Media to Boot via USB in UEFI Mode
I'm setting up a HP Server and didn't configure it with an optical drive. No problem, I thought, just boot it off a USB. Easy. Not so much... This was consid...
Read post →Configuring macOS Server.app v5 to bind to a particular IP Address
It's long been a painful thing for me that macOS Server.app not only binds to all IP addresses on a system, but takes port 80 and 443, even if all web-relate...
Read post →Install FileMaker Server 16 on a Mac with macOS Server.app v5
The installer for FileMaker Server 16 refuses to install on a Mac if Apache is running. It doesn't check what ports Apache has grabbed, just the fact that Ap...
Read post →Enable Retina / HiDPI modes for a Mac mini plugged into a 4K HDTV
This one is pretty short and simple once you get down to it. I recently set up a client's boardroom with a really sweet 75" Sony 4K Android TV , a Logitech G...
Read post →Keyword Searches for Email Discovery in Kerio Connect mailserver
I recently had a client with a huge amount of email stored in Kerio Connect and they needed to perform discovery against some mailboxes with a lot of email i...
Read post →Firefox for Mac gets stuck on installing your updates...
Firefox for Mac can get stuck in an update loop if you have been using an older version and it's downloaded a new version to install, but before it gets to i...
Read post →Set access permissions on Resource Calendars in Office 365
I've set up another client on Office 365 recently and they have a couple of resource calendars - one for the Boardroom and one for the Meeting Room. What the...
Read post →Apple's new MacBook Pro - cheaper in Australia than the USA?
We've hit an unusual point with pricing on Apple's latest equipment that was announced at WWDC on 5th June (6th June Australian time). Looking at the price o...
Read post →Disk-Arbitrator - Mount disks read-only on macOS
Disk Arbitrator is a Mac OS X forensic utility designed to help the user ensure correct forensic procedures are followed during imaging of a disk device. Dis...
Read post →Possible fix for no video in Skype for Mac
I don't use Skype very often, but when I went to use it recently, it couldn't see my FaceTime HD camera. I'd go into Skype > Preferences and in Audio/Video a...
Read post →Quick fix for Apple Remote Desktop 3.9 and asking for Keychain Password
After upgrading the Apple Remote Desktop client on a number of machines, and using the new 3.9 version of the Remote Desktop app, some machines have started...
Read post →Error with the User Profile Service failing the logon on Windows 7
I recently had an issue where a domain-joined machine with Windows 7 was unable to have new users log in. Anyone who had an existing account on the machine c...
Read post →Cumulus Field Formulas
This is pretty obscure stuff - I'm putting it here so I can refer to it later down the track when I've completely forgotten what I did. In Canto Cumulus, you...
Read post →Configure L2TP VPN Server on Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite
As Apple have removed PPTP VPN support from macOS Sierra (10.12 and iOS 10) I'm changing clients over to L2TP over IPSec VPNs instead. Once the VPN server is...
Read post →Get system specs on an HP Server
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows doesn't really have anything quite like the System Information app on macOS. If you've got an HP server however, you can...
Read post →Find (and delete) duplicate files
I've had issues in the past where a Kerio Connect mail server talking to Apple Mail can somehow end up duplicating hundreds or even thousands of emails in ma...
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