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.
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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...
Read post →Office 365 - cannot send as shared mailboxes from Outlook
Fix Outlook NDRs when sending as an Office 365 shared mailbox by disabling auto-mapping in PowerShell and adding the mailbox manually.
Read post →Scan to Email not working on Fuji Xerox via Office 365 - Error 027-779
Fix Fuji Xerox scan to email error 027-779 on Office 365 by enabling Authenticated SMTP for the user, using PowerShell to diagnose the SMTP fault.
Read post →Connect to ExchangeOnline with PowerShell from macOS
Connect to Exchange Online from macOS with Modern Authentication and MFA using the EXO V2 PowerShell module and PSWSMan, now on Mac.
Read post →Massdrop x Sennheiser HD6XX reference-class headphones.
I used to feature numerous product reviews on this blog, however that has really tapered off over the past few years. I'd like to get back onto letting peopl...
Read post →Fix a broken Fusion Drive on a Mac
I don't like Fusion Drives. They are unreliable. There, now that I've got that out of the way, here's how to fix a Fusion Drive if it flips out. Do note that...
Read post →Find PPD file used by AirPrint printers
I occasionally need to set up a printer manually (e.g. when pushing out a printer with Munki), however as the printer is AirPrint compatible, the manufacture...
Read post →Set default calendar sharing permissions on all user calendars in Office 365
Set default calendar sharing to Reviewer across every Microsoft 365 mailbox at once with a PowerShell loop over Set-MailboxFolderPermission.
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