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. While all my clients have strong passwords on their admin users, having a different...
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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 where all of your email signatures disappear. If you go into the...
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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 after force-closing open file handles, and even after rebooting the server. I did some...
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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 PowerShell Set-ExternalInOutlook -Enabled $true The External tag then shows up in Outlook - Windows,...
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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 static IP address (you can not enable OoB Management on a DHCP address) then you can...
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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 have more than a handful of files and folders, it...
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When you set up a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online, and then assign someone delegate access to it, for some reason the default settings copy the Sent Items from the Shared Mailbox into the sender's Sent Items, not the Shared...
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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, however, you saw that and thought "Wait, what?" then please read on. Apparently, Apple...
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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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