I had a really thorny problem recently with a client who responded to a phishing email and their account was compromised. As part of reviewing their account security, I enabled Multi-factor Authentication. Everything went well signing back into the account,...
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In the past, I've had a number of the original Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite units fail - they were all the original plastic-case units, and in each case it was the USB flash that died. It was difficult to pinpoint exactly...
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I had a very unusual problem recently with a client - his MacBook Pro running Catalina was constantly running out of disk space. He let it slide for a while, and then started to prune his data when space got...
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I have a Mac mini as a server here at the Automatica World HQ, and it's downstairs, in a cabinet, running headless with no peripherals attached. I needed to install some software that added a system extension, and was bit...
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Further to Darren's post, here's the short and sweet how-to configure an L2TP VPN on an EdgeRouter. First edit the commands below. Next, log into the router with ssh, enter configuration mode and paste the lot in. set firewall name...
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With the increased need to enable people to “Work From Home”, setting up VPN access is a vital step to ensure a secure connection to the work environment.Ubiquiti EdgeRouters have the capability to support all current standards of VPN access including PPTP,...
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Occasionally I need to list all the folder names in someone's mailbox in Office 365 via PowerShell. Microsoft have a cmdlet called Get-MailboxFolder however this only runs on the mailbox of the currently logged-in user. Instead, try this: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity...
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I'm posting this as a bookmark to this article on Ars Technica. I know I'll need this at some stage in the not too distant future, so present me is bookmarking it for future me. How fast are your disks?...
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I had a client today who after every email they received in Apple Mail on Catalina, an error dialog box would pop up saying "The Message <whatever> could not be moved to the mailbox Inbox. Invalid base64 string for MIME...
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I've occasionally needed to fix certain aspects of the Dock on some people's computers - one particular case comes to mind was an elderly client who somehow would remove the Mail icon from the Dock, and then be unable to...
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