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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I recently needed to establish an ad-hoc ssh connection to a server behind a firewall. I didn't control the firewall and couldn't get a port mapped through it for incoming ssh access, so I had to use a reverse ssh...
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I don't know why it is, but SMB on OS X Server is slower and less reliable than the AFP that it replaces. Despite Apple making it the default for OS X to OS X Server file sharing connections, AFP...
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Sometimes an OS X Server will have very poor SMB file sharing performance - whilst I haven't been able to ascertain with 100% certainty what causes it, something that may be a factor is the use of SMB 3 connections...
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I occasionally see OS X Server's Open Directory flip out, sometimes a simple repair of the LDAP databases seems to fix it, sometimes you need to go deeper. If repairing the databases doesn't work, then I try to recover the...
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I've had a bit of trouble getting a Google Pixel C to be recognised on my Mac - wasn't able to get it showing up in System Profiler and wasn't able to see it with adb. I was initially trying...
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