I'm setting up a HP Server and didn't configure it with an optical drive. No problem, I thought, just boot it off a USB. Easy. Not so much... This was considerably more difficult than it really should have been. I'm...
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The installer for FileMaker Server 16 refuses to install on a Mac if Apache is running. It doesn't check what ports Apache has grabbed, just the fact that Apache is running is enough for the installer to bail out. If...
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It's long been a painful thing for me that macOS Server.app not only binds to all IP addresses on a system, but takes port 80 and 443, even if all web-related services are off. It's also a major annoyance that...
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I recently had a client with a huge amount of email stored in Kerio Connect and they needed to perform discovery against some mailboxes with a lot of email in them. It was desirable to retain the folder structure, however...
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Firefox for Mac can get stuck in an update loop if you have been using an older version and it's downloaded a new version to install, but before it gets to install it, you manually update to a new version....
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I've set up another client on Office 365 recently and they have a couple of resource calendars - one for the Boardroom and one for the Meeting Room. What they wanted to do that was a bit different was to...
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Disk Arbitrator is a Mac OS X forensic utility designed to help the user ensure correct forensic procedures are followed during imaging of a disk device. Disk Arbitrator is essentially a user interface to the Disk Arbitration framework, which enables...
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I recently had an issue where a domain-joined machine with Windows 7 was unable to have new users log in. Anyone who had an existing account on the machine could still log in, but new users couldn't and were getting...
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