Force Synology Drive to re-index changes
Synology Drive occasionally gets out of sync when you're making changes at both ends of a synced folder. Fortunately, there's a command you can run, either o...
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Count Files
This script will count the files in the current directory and all the subdirectories - it's useful for checking if you have sync issues with Dropbox as Dropb...
Read post →Veggie Bolognaise Sauce
Yes, I know this isn't tech related, but I need to write this down somewhere where I won't lose it. 3 medium/large carrots 2 large brown onions (or 3-4 small...
Read post →Microsoft Word for Mac unable to open files in Recent Files
I had a strange issue recently where Microsoft Word was unable to open files from the Recent Files screen. The files were there, e.g. sitting on the Desktop,...
Read post →Microsoft Word for Mac making files hidden when saving to an SMB Shared Folder.
I had an issue recently where a client was editing Word documents on a server and when they went to save them, they would save but they were hidden. You coul...
Read post →Adding a CalDAV Calendar account on macOS Ventura
I had a very annoying problem recently when setting up a couple of new iMacs for a client. Although their email and calendars are hosted on Office 365, they...
Read post →Microsoft teams up with Parallels to deliver Windows 11 on Apple Silicon
Microsoft and Parallels have teamed up to deliver an officially supported solution to run Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs. https://support.microsoft.com/en-...
Read post →Assign the Application Impersonation role in Microsoft 365 via PowerShell
I'm just putting a quick snippet here so I can find it later on. When you create a brand-new Microsoft 365 tenancy, it often takes a while before you can ass...
Read post →Allowing nginx from MacPorts to run on macOS Ventura with SIP active
I've set up a couple of servers recently to host Munki and generally prefer to use nginx now that macOS doesn't ship with a built-in web server. Allowing ngi...
Read post →Set up nginx on macOS Ventura to host Munki Managed Software Centre
My web server of choice is nginx, so I've been using that to host on-premises Munki Managed Software Centre instances ever since macOS stopped shipping with...
Read post →ChatGPT comes through with dinner for me - Vegetarian Chilli with Eggplant
I've been using ChatGPT for more and more random things lately, and tonight I asked it to help me out with dinner. I wanted a vegetarian chilli with eggplant...
Read post →Backup self-hosted Hudu instance to Dropbox
I have recently switched over from IT Glue to Hudu for my documentation platform, and am running it as a self-hosted instance. As I have root access to my se...
Read post →Bulk add guest users to Microsoft 365 Group / Microsoft Teams group in Office 365
It's fairly straightforward to add guest users to a MS365 group one-by-one in Outlook on the Web, however adding them as an admin is apparently a lot more di...
Read post →OpenAI Chatbot - ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) model developed by OpenAI. It is the next level in the evolution of NLP...
Read post →Change ownership of Synology Cloud Sync tasks
Synology have advised people for some time now to not use an administrator user called admin , as this account will be subject to password guessing attacks....
Read post →Email signatures missing in Outlook for Mac 16.63
If you're using the New Outlook on a Mac, and your Outlook has upgraded itself to version 16.63 (currently the latest version), then there may be an issue wh...
Read post →Macs unable to access greyed out folders on a Windows server that is using DFS-R
I had an ongoing situation recently where some folders on a Windows server were inaccessible via the Finder - the folders were greyed out. This persisted aft...
Read post →Flag all emails from external senders in Outlook / Office 365
This is a super quick one. To apply an External tag to all emails from external senders in Exchange Online, simply execute the following one-liner in PowerSh...
Read post →Connect to Synology Out-of-band Management via SSH on macOS
Some high-end Synology units feature a separate Ethernet port, labelled MGMT which is the Out-of-band Management port. Once this port has been assigned a sta...
Read post →Who Has Access to your files in Google Drive
It seems strange to me that Google haven't implemented any way to produce a report of who has access to your shared files and folders in Google Drive. If you...
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