Apple have released the iOS 11.4 update for iPhones and iPads. The main improvement is the addition of AirPlay 2 which allows HomePod speakers to play multi-room audio (like Sonos) and to have two of them linked as a stereo...
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Download a file with PowerShell for Windows Server Core
If you've got a Windows Server without the Desktop Experience (which, in Windows Server 1709 is the default, and only option) then you're going to have to get used to managing things from the command line. When you initially log...
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Windows Service with PID 4 listening on TCP Port 443
I had an issue where I couldn't start a web server on a Windows Server as something was already listening on TCP Port 443. netstat -a -b just showed me that something was listening on 0.0.0.0:443 but also said that...
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Archicad + Munki
It's long been a source of frustration for me that CAD software usually doesn't use the OS vendor's provided installers and instead they roll their own. Vectorworks and Archicad, I'm looking at you. When an application uses an app based...
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Troubleshooting AD replication error -2146893022: “The target principal name is incorrect”
I'm too tired to write up more background information on this, suffice to say I spent quite literally hours searching for this and I want to be able to easily find it again if the need arises. As often happens...
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Can’t image a new Windows 10 machine with Clonezilla, NTFS partition shows as RAW
I had an issue today with trying to create an image of a brand-new Windows 10 laptop (HP EliteBook x360 in case you were wondering). When running Clonezilla, the main Windows partition, formatted as plain ol' NTFS, was identified by...
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Can’t invite people to events in macOS Calendar app via Kerio Connect
I've got a client with Kerio Connect as their mail/contacts/calendars server. They were seeing an issue on some workstations where when the user created a calendar event in their Kerio calendar, there was no option to invite people to the...
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Get PowerShell remoting working on macOS without installing Homebrew
The PowerShell Team at Microsoft have put in a lot of work to port PowerShell to other (non-Windows) systems. As part of their porting efforts, they've also ported OpenSSH over to Windows, but that's not what this post is about....
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Stop Apache web services on macOS with Server.app
In recent versions of macOS with the Server.app, the Server software has been more and more persistent about having Apache running. Even if you're not using any of the web services, it still likes to have Apache running as a...
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Is there a way I can tell what year a MacBook was manufactured without asking someone at Apple? – Quora
The only way to be sure is to look up the serial number against a 3rd party service. You can check in the Apple Menu > About this Mac, however the model name can be misleading as some Macs haven’t...
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