PowerShell is great, except when it isn't. One of the really good things about it is that it can pipe objects between commands, instead of plain text like a lot of Unix commands do. This is all really good when...
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I thought this update warranted a new post, instead of updating the previous one. https://automatica.com.au/2021/10/connect-to-exchangeonline-with-powershell-from-macos-updated-for-m1/ If you follow the instructions in my older post, this should get you a working PowerShell environment that will connect to Exchange Online using the...
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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, Disk_Image.002.dmg, Disk_Image.003.dmg and so on. Running on macOS Monterey, it seems that the GUI no longer...
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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 it here, and was able to change the model number at the...
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I have a few clients who have an SOE pushed out with a heap of individual packages via Munki. One of these clients has decided to make Outlook their default mail app across the board. In order to automate this...
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** Edit. There is a new version of this post that works for me on both of my Apple Silicon Macs. Disregard the instructions below, unless you're on Intel, and head over to the newer post instead: https://automatica.com.au/2021/12/connect-to-exchange-online-using-powershell-on-macos-now-100-native-arm64-apple-silicon/ I have...
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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. Whenever the RAID was unmounted and then remounted (or the server was...
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I'm stealing borrowing this information from a post on Sysadmin Tips: https://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/846-office-365-cannot-send-as-shared-mailboxes-from-outlook Issue Some users started having issues sending emails from newly created Office 365 shared mailboxes. Users were added as shared mailbox members using Office 365 Admin centre. The...
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I have just set up a client with a new Office 365 tenancy and they were having problems scanning to email. The error they were getting was 027-227, which if you look up says Fault Code 027-779: Authentication Failure with...
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