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...
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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
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.
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
New Outlook for Mac 16.63 drops all email signatures. Restore them with a defaults write command in Terminal to reset the DisableSignatures setting.
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
Add an External tag to all messages from outside senders in Exchange Online with the Set-ExternalInOutlook PowerShell one-liner, shown across Outlook clients.
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...
Read post →Copy Sent Items to Shared Mailbox using PowerShell in Exchange Online
Save delegate replies to a shared mailbox's Sent Items in Exchange Online with Set-Mailbox -MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled, for Send As and Send on Behalf.
Read post →Use high-impedance headphones with new MacBook Pro models.
If you just read that, and you're asking yourself what high-impedance headphones are, then just skip this whole post, it won't be relevant to you. If, howeve...
Read post →Sort Office 365 Exchange Online mailbox folders by size in PowerShell
Sort Exchange Online mailbox folders correctly by size in PowerShell, converting the human-readable FolderSize string to bytes so the order is numeric.
Read post →Connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell on macOS - now 100% native arm64/Apple Silicon
Run Exchange Online PowerShell as native arm64 on Apple Silicon Macs using PowerShell 7.2, MacPorts OpenSSL and PSWSMan, avoiding Rosetta translation.
Read post →Combine Legacy Split DMG files on modern versions of macOS
I recently came across some old software that was provided as segmented DMG files, aka Split Disk Utility images. The files were names Disk_Image.001.dmg, Di...
Read post →HP/HPE ProCurve Switch Firmware for 1810-48G
I had all kinds of problems navigating HP and HPE's support site to find the firmware for an HPE ProCurve V1810-48G switch (HP SKU J9660A) I eventually found...
Read post →Zoom direct downloads for Intel and Apple SIlicon
https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoomusInstaller.pkg https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoomusInstaller.pkg?archType=arm64
Read post →Set mail app back to Apple Mail after using MailToOutlook 2.0 to set Outlook as default mail handler.
Revert the default mail app from Outlook back to Apple Mail on macOS after MailToOutlook 2.0, using Microsoft's SetDefaultMailApp tool.
Read post →Connect to ExchangeOnline with PowerShell from macOS - Updated for M1
Connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell on Intel and M1 Macs using PowerShell 7.1, the universal OpenSSL build from MacPorts and PSWSMan under Rosetta.
Read post →"Ignore Ownership" keeps turning itself on for drives on macOS
This was a strange one - I have a server with an external Thunderbolt RAID. Like most servers, I have permissions set on certain folders to limit access. Whe...
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