I've encountered a few cases where a client has forgotten the password for the iTunes backup they've made for their iPhone, and the password was either set up on another Mac, or not stored in the Keychain. With encrypted iTunes...
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Microsoft have widespread outage on the Office 365 login/authentication servers this morning and it's affecting multiple tenancies. The official report from the Microsoft 365 Service health status page says: "Current status: We've identified a network issue that is affecting authentication to...
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From 1st Jan 2019, Microsoft are increasing the pricing of Office 365 subscriptions by up to 8% in order to bring them in-line with pricing in other regions. The last price adjustment for Office 365 was more than 3 years...
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This is here just so I can remember what I did later when I need to undo it. I've got a problem where Xero is simply not loading in Safari 12 on macOS Mojave. After I've logged in at login.xero.com,...
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This is new to me, as it's a new feature in macOS Mojave. On older systems, to capture a screenshot, you can use Shift+Cmd+4 and either select a rectangular region of the screen, or tap Space Bar and then click...
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With the recent release of a new Mac operating system, macOS Mojave, it's worth digging out and rehashing the instructions to create a bootable installer. I carry around an external drive with me with multiple installer partitions on it. I...
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Back in 2016 I posted some steps to repair Open Directory when the LDAP database has problems. On some servers this happens very rarely, on other servers it happens after every. single. reboot. I don't know why the databases are...
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