With the increased need to enable people to “Work From Home”, setting up VPN access is a vital step to ensure a secure connection to the work environment.Ubiquiti EdgeRouters have the capability to support all current standards of VPN access including PPTP,...
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Occasionally I need to list all the folder names in someone's mailbox in Office 365 via PowerShell. Microsoft have a cmdlet called Get-MailboxFolder however this only runs on the mailbox of the currently logged-in user. Instead, try this: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity...
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I'm posting this as a bookmark to this article on Ars Technica. I know I'll need this at some stage in the not too distant future, so present me is bookmarking it for future me. How fast are your disks?...
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I had a client today who after every email they received in Apple Mail on Catalina, an error dialog box would pop up saying "The Message <whatever> could not be moved to the mailbox Inbox. Invalid base64 string for MIME...
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I've occasionally needed to fix certain aspects of the Dock on some people's computers - one particular case comes to mind was an elderly client who somehow would remove the Mail icon from the Dock, and then be unable to...
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On macOS Catalina 10.15, the entire boot volume is mounted read-only. All user data, apps, configuration, preferences etc, exists on the data volume which is mounted at /System/Volumes/Data. Even as the root user, you do not have access to create...
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This has popped up a couple of times recently and I can never remember where to go in Office 365 to fix it, so after spending some time on the phone to Microsoft (who, by the way, were very helpful),...
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Apple have finally opened their order books for the 2019 Mac Pro, and what a beast it is. Now that it's available for sale, we can see the pricing, not only on the base model, but on the upgrades as...
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The original PlayStation has turned 25. I spent many an hour with one of these units flying anti-gravity racers in wipEout, driving fancy sports cars in Gran Turismo and being a hyperactive bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot. Here's a trip down...
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I was trying to track down the location of the Caching Server cache on macOS Mojave, this is with just the Caching service enabled in Sharing, not with the full Server.app installed. Some quick digging revealed a heap of data...
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