Some high-end Synology units feature a separate Ethernet port, labelled MGMT which is the Out-of-band Management port. Once this port has been assigned a static IP address (you can not enable OoB Management on a DHCP address) then you can...
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It seems strange to me that Google haven't implemented any way to produce a report of who has access to your shared files and folders in Google Drive. If you have more than a handful of files and folders, it...
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When you set up a Shared Mailbox in Exchange Online, and then assign someone delegate access to it, for some reason the default settings copy the Sent Items from the Shared Mailbox into the sender's Sent Items, not the Shared...
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If you just read that, and you're asking yourself what high-impedance headphones are, then just skip this whole post, it won't be relevant to you. If, however, you saw that and thought "Wait, what?" then please read on. Apparently, Apple...
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PowerShell is great, except when it isn't. One of the really good things about it is that it can pipe objects between commands, instead of plain text like a lot of Unix commands do. This is all really good when...
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I thought this update warranted a new post, instead of updating the previous one. https://automatica.com.au/2021/10/connect-to-exchangeonline-with-powershell-from-macos-updated-for-m1/ If you follow the instructions in my older post, this should get you a working PowerShell environment that will connect to Exchange Online using the...
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I recently came across some old software that was provided as segmented DMG files, aka Split Disk Utility images. The files were names Disk_Image.001.dmg, Disk_Image.002.dmg, Disk_Image.003.dmg and so on. Running on macOS Monterey, it seems that the GUI no longer...
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I had all kinds of problems navigating HP and HPE's support site to find the firmware for an HPE ProCurve V1810-48G switch (HP SKU J9660A) I eventually found it here, and was able to change the model number at the...
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I have a few clients who have an SOE pushed out with a heap of individual packages via Munki. One of these clients has decided to make Outlook their default mail app across the board. In order to automate this...
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