In trying to find the IP address of a switch on the network, I first turned (without much hope) to performing a Bonjour discovery on the network, but as expected the switch was not advertising itself via this protocol. In...
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If you're deploying Dropbox to multiple systems, there's now an Enterprise Installer available from Dropbox which has a postinstall script to properly initialise the Dropbox Updater. I've been deploying Dropbox and using an old script that seems to be working,...
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I've got a client for whom I've set up federation between their Google Workspace and Microsoft Entra ID tenancies. Google Workspace is their primary platform, and their Identity Provider (IdP). They also use Microsoft 365 Apps for Business and/or Microsoft...
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I'm putting this up as a duplicate of my recent post detailing how to bypass TPM checks when installing Windows 11 on an Intel-based Mac mini with 8th-gen CPU. https://automatica.com.au/2025/05/bypass-windows-11-tpm-check-from-within-the-windows-11-installation-assistant/ First you need to have macOS up and running on...
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Today I needed to install Windows 11 on a late-model Intel-based Mac mini. The Mac mini has an 8th gen Intel Core i3 CPU, 8GB RAM and 250GB SSD. It supports everything Windows 11 needs, including secure boot, with the...
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I recently needed to do a clean install of Windows onto some specialised hardware – a PC that was custom built as a controller for some industrial equipment and the onboard SSD had died. As it turns out, the onboard...
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I had an issue recently with a client whereby they were unable to resolve servers on the local network via their hostnames. What was really odd is that using some command line tools, such as host, nslookup and dig all...
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I'm working with a client who needs a few hundred contacts added to the GAL in Microsoft 365. Easy! Just upload a CSV and you're good to go! Shortest. Blog Post. Ever. Hold on, not so fast – once you...
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I frequently set up new laptops for clients, and as a part of this, I'll often set up their user account so I can sign in to all of their services for them. That way, when they get a new...
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I recently had a client who when they gave me the login details to set up a new user for them, they had a typo in that person's first name. As their email addresses followed the pattern [email protected], I also...
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