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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Microsoft 365 emails landing in the Inbox then vanishing to Deleted Items are usually from a blocked iOS contact. Unblock the sender to stop the deletions.
Read post →Fix an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro showing the wrong time despite automatic date and time by deleting the timed daemon plist and rebooting to reset the clock.
Read post →Dropbox now ships a native Apple Silicon build, but Macs may still run the Intel version. Download the Universal or Apple Silicon installer to update manually.
Read post →The official WireGuard macOS app is App Store only, requiring an Apple ID. A vetted open-source build on GitHub installs WireGuard on macOS without the store.
Read post →Let non-admin Windows users run WireGuard by setting the LimitedOperatorUI registry value and adding them to the Network Configuration Operators group.
Read post →Microsoft Forms wrongly locked as phishing can be released by an admin via the AdminPhishingReviewPage URL with the form ID, restoring distribution.
Read post →Outlook's "Sent Items folder contains the maximum number of allowed items" error means the PST is full. Raise the limit via the MaxFileSize registry key.
Read post →Force Synology Drive to re-index after two-sided changes by running the cloud-control synotifyd-rescan command with the View ID over SSH or Task Scheduler.
Read post →Bash script to recursively count files per subdirectory, useful for diagnosing Dropbox sync issues once a folder exceeds 300k to 400k files.
Read post →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 →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 →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 →macOS Ventura fails to add a CalDAV account when it can't infer the SSL port. Fix it by adding :443 explicitly to the server URL.
Read post →Microsoft and Parallels officially support Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs, with limits on virtualisation features, WSL and DirectX 12.
Read post →Assign the ApplicationImpersonation role in Microsoft 365 via PowerShell when the Exchange admin centre won't allow it yet, before a MigrationWiz migration.
Read post →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 →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 →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 →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 invite guest users to a Microsoft 365 or Teams group using the Azure AD bulk invite CSV, with the welcome email suppressed, then add them to the group.
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