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Review Delegated Mailbox Permissions in Microsoft 365
A small PowerShell script for Microsoft 365 to review delegated mailbox permissions for a given user.
Read post →Send SMS from 3CX with Alphanumeric Sender ID via Twilio SIP Trunk + Cloudflare Worker
Despite what you may be lead to believe after reading up on sending business text messages from 3CX , there is no inherent support for sending text messages...
Read post →Apple Business to launch in April 2026
Apple Business Manager (ABM) is getting a new name and a facelift. It’s being combined with Apple Business Essentials which is an apple-only mdm that t...
Read post →Can't accept Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) in Ingram Micro Xvantage when changing Microsoft 365 subscription
This is a very obscure thing, but I'm putting it here to remind future me how to fix this issue. When placing a change order for a customer's Microsoft 365 s...
Read post →Adjust brightness on macOS with non-Apple external displays
I've got an LG Ultrawide display on my Mac mini at home, and the keyboard brightness controls in macOS don't allow me to adjust the brightness of the display...
Read post →Update SAML Certificate for Microsoft SSO with Google Workspace as IdP using Microsoft Graph MgGraph PowerShell Commands
I've got a client with Google Workspace as their IdP, and Microsoft 365 as the service provider, using the identity provided by Workspace. When setting it al...
Read post →Convert a Microsoft 365 AD Synced user to a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online
In general, it's very easy to convert a user mailbox into a Shared Mailbox in Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online. Except, if you have directory synchronisation...
Read post →Remove additional Platform Single Sign-On credentials saved in macOS when using PSSO with Microsoft 365 / Entra and Company Portal
I'm working on a Mac that's configured with Platform Single Sign-On via Intune. I'm wanting to test it pretty thoroughly myself before widespread deployment...
Read post →Repair PSSO on Mac enrolled in Intune via ADE/DEP after signing out of Company Portal app
I was trying to troubleshoot an issue on a Mac enrolled in Intune and using Platform Single Sign-on (PSSO). PSSO is really good, when it works. It gives Mac...
Read post →Replacing Jamf with Microsoft Intune + Munki on macOS
I've been talking to a few clients about migrating away from Jamf . In general, these clients are all in on Microsoft 365 , so a combined approach using Micr...
Read post →Intune not pushing any configuration profiles after Mac enrolled via Company Portal app for macOS
I was setting up Intune recently, and had an issue whereby after enrolling a Mac via the Company Portal all, I was only getting one single profile in Device...
Read post →Set Outlook as the default email app – mail2outlook as a shell script
If you are setting up new Macs, and would like (or require) the end users to use Outlook, it's time consuming to configure this manually for each new user ac...
Read post →Download macOS Installers via Terminal
You can use Terminal to download the installer for macOS versions that are no older than the version that the Mac you're currently using shipped with, or the...
Read post →Privacy Preferences Policy Control - Application Bundle Identifiers and App Code Requirements
So that I don't have to keep looking them up when I'm setting up profiles in a new MDM, here is a list of some common apps that I'll included in Privacy Pref...
Read post →Fix Issues with SharePoint Online: Something went wrong. We're sorry, sign-in isn't working right now. But we're on it! Please try again later.
I've been trying, and mostly failing, to do the simplest of things in SharePoint – that is, share a folder with an external guest. I was logged into a client...
Read post →Ensure that Microsoft 365 Resource Calendars keep event details from email invitations
By default, if you make a resource calendar in Microsoft 365 (e.g. a meeting room calendar) and add it to a meeting via a calendar invitation, the calendar i...
Read post →Delete "undeletable" calendar spam events for Microsoft 365 renewals in Calendar app on macOS
The spammers and phishers are back at it again, sending out a heap of spam calendar invitations to people for bogus Microsoft 365 renewals. Whilst Microsoft...
Read post →Make a new Terminal window on macOS with a given Profile
I went down a real rabbit hole today, trying to do something that seems quite simple – opening a new Terminal window with a given profile from a script. Why?...
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