Correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows doesn't really have anything quite like the System Information app on macOS. If you've got an HP server however, you can get some fairly detailed information about the configuration of the server as...
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I've had issues in the past where a Kerio Connect mail server talking to Apple Mail can somehow end up duplicating hundreds or even thousands of emails in mailboxes. I never got to the bottom of what was causing it,...
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I recently needed to have a script execute on a daily basis - previously this would have been a task for cron however it's been deprecated (yet still all there) in macOS since something like 10.4. The accepted way to do...
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$UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/\ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity [email protected] -IncludeAnalysis -FolderScope All\ | Select-Object Name,FolderPath,ItemsInFolder,FolderSize,TopSubject,TopSubjectSize,TopSubjectCount,TopSubjectPath | Out-file C:\Users\%username%\Desktop\UserMailboxResults.txt  
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Synology DSM lets you do some pretty complex things with permissions on files and folders, however occasionally things can get a bit mixed up and it's difficult to see what's happening and even more difficult to recover from it. Whilst you...
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This information is condensed from Håvard Siegel Haukeberg's blog over at https://haukeberg.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/disable-pin-code-when-joining-azure-ad/ You need to log in as the actual admin user for the domain, you can't do this through a partner account with delegated administration. First up, go to the Azure...
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When you join a Windows 10 machine to Azure AD, the user account you use to join to the domain is automatically given local administrator permissions to the machine. If you noodle around in the Azure management portal, there doesn't...
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I recently needed to fix a heap of files with invalid timestamps for a client to sync between two sites. The issue was that some files had modification dates in the year 2032 or something like that. With a 2-way...
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Ever since Apple were forced to ditch Samba due to their changing the licensing to GPL3, we've been stuck with a second-rate SMB implementation on OS X and Server called smbx. As it turns out, there are numerous issues with smbx...
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I've had a couple of clients come to me recently after their WordPress site was pwned. Sometimes you're able to use a tool like Wordfence to clean it up and secure the site and it's all OK. Sometimes however it...
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